Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood Art

Mona Sakr is Senior Lecturer in Education and Early Childhood at Middlesex University, UK.Jayne Osgood is Professor of Education at Middlesex University, UK, and Visiting Professor at Oslo Met University, UK.

• Introduction, Mona Sakr and Jayne Osgood 1. Art-making as Activity: How Children Make Meaning through Art, Heather Malin 2. Childhood Art in Community Education: Postdevelopmental Learning through Feminist Leadership, Diversity and Pedagogic Invention, Linda Knight 3. Children’s Photography as Sense-making, Mona Sakr 4. Holly Banister: A Social Incentive Account of Exceptional Drawing Ability, Paul Duncum 5. Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Art: The Lessons of Intergenerational Art Curricula and Postdevelopmental Theorizing, Rachel Heydon and Lisa-Marie Gagliardi 6. ‘You Can’t Separate It from Anything’: Glitter’s Doings as Materialized Figurations of Childhood (and) Art, Jayne Osgood 7. ‘So You Will Remember Me as an Artist’: Art-making as a Way of Being in Early Childhood, Christine Marmé Thompson 8. ‘It Might Get Messy, or Not Be Right’: Scribble as Postdevelopmental Art, Victoria de Rijke 9. ‘We Need It Loud!’: Listening to Preschool Making from Mediated and Materialist Perspectives Karen Wohlwend, Anna Keune and Kylie Peppler 10. Thinking Childhood Art with Care in an Ecology of Practices, Laura Trafi-Prats Index