Children and the Power of Stories Posthuman and Autoethnographic Perspectives in Early Childhood Education

This book explores how stretching stories through posthuman and autoethnographic perspectives can produce new stories that decolonialize traditional thinking and approaches to Early Childhood Education (ECE). It demonstrates how stories can provide a different way of knowing, and a way of knowing di...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Blyth, Carmen (Editor), Aslanian, Teresa K. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Storytelling the Multiple Self: Posthuman Autoethnography as Critical Praxis
  • Storying into Resistance: The Use of Purposeful Placement Stories
  • The Green Foam Ring and the Sleeping Girl Who Wasn’t Tired: A Posthuman Story of Care
  • Storying Observations of a Cardboard-book through Sticky Micro-moments, Bag‒Lady‒Carrier‒Bag Practices and Memory Stories
  • From Multispecies Tangles and Anthropocene Muddles: What can Lichen Teach Us About Precarity and Indeterminacy in Early Childhood?
  • Storyplay Time at School: Neoliberal and Neocolonial Assemblages in Early Childhood Education
  • Storying Other th/an/d Neoliberal Criticism‒‘Cause I have a Hunch of Something Being Wrong Here
  • Nick-storying and the Body's Immersion and Participating in the World: Forming Aggregates for Early Childhood Education
  • Stories, Places: Storied Place and Placed Story
  • An Ethics of Flourishing: Storying Our Way Around the Power/Potential Nexus in Early Childhood Education and Care
  • Afterword
  • Index