Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood Research Observation

Jayne Osgood is Professor of Education at Middlesex University, UK. She is Editor of the Gender and Education journal and co-series editor, with Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, of the Feminist Thought in Childhood Research series, published by Bloomsbury.

• Introduction, Jayne Osgood (Middlesex University, UK)1. Unflattering Angles: Cameras, Consent, and (self) Construction in Classroom Research (Casey Y. Myers, Watershed Early Years Partnership)2. Observing What You Cannot See, Abigail Hackett and Christina MacRae (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)3. Down On The Ground: The Material Memoir of the Posthuman Researcher (Jayne Osgood, Middlesex University)4. Humming a Tune: Attending to “Earworms” as a More-than Observational Practice in Fieldwork with Children (Paulina Semenec, The University of British Columbia)5. Telling Story: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction as a Means of Reciprocal ‘Researching-with’ Children (Victoria de Rijke, Middlesex University)6. Observing Migrant Children: Shifting the Frame from Linguistic Deficit to Display of Agency (Federico Farini, University of Northampton, UK and Angela Scollan, Middlesex University)7. Being There: A New Materialist Approach to Observing Care in a Toddler Classroom (Teresa Aslanian, University of South-Eastern Norway)8. “Can I draw in your sketchbook?”: Collaborative Observation-making with Children (Hayon Park, Arkansas University and Jeffrey M. Cornwall, The Pennsylvania State University)9. Toddlers’ Tinkering with Toys: Unpacking Complex Action Texts in Doc McStuffins Play (Karen Wohlwend, Yanlin Chen, and Adam Maltese, Indiana University)ReferencesIndex

[This book] pushes the boundaries of early childhood research taking a fresh look at how we research with and about child development. The examples from real world research affords readers the opportunity to see how postdevelopmental approaches to observation, as a research method, may be applied to their own work. The authors embrace the move away from traditional research methods, and place a spotlight on children’s participation and agency in research, this is an excellent addition to the research canon.