Development and Postdevelopmentalism in Studies on, to, with, for, by Young Children

Hillevi Lenz Taguchi is PhD in Education, and Professor of Education and Child and Youth Studies, at the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her main interest has been theoretical and methodological developments as part of Feminist New Materialist, and Post Qualitative approaches. Her current focus is on developing emergent, inter- and transdisciplinary methodologies underpinned by ontological relationality.Linnea Bodén is PhD in Education, and Associate Professor of Child and Youth Studies, at the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research integrates theoretical and empirical approaches, often engaging with Posthumanist and Post Qualitative perspectives. Questions on ethics are an ongoing research interest.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. On development, and nature, nurture, and culture relations.- Chapter 3. The emergence of postdevelopmentalism and a coconstitutive view of development.- Chapter 4. “Whose science is it?” The field of child, childhood and early childhood education.- Chapter 5. “Those whom the research concerns”. The doing of intervention research as inter- and trans-disciplinary inquiry.- Chapter 6. Troubling ethics in developmental and postdevelopmental inquiry involving children.- Chapter 7. Standardized tests: Children in the middle of a “dangerous” research practice.- Chapter 8. Children and the EEG-hat: Exploratory research to investigate children’s experiences and participation.- Chapter 9. Gendered-trouble in the interdisciplinary bakery.- Chapter 10. The problem of words and language in interdisciplinary collaborations.- Chapter 11. Conclusions.