This article demonstrates how feminist posthumanism can reconfigure conceptualisations of,
and practices with,'child'in Montessori early childhood contexts. It complicates Montessori's …

Familiarity with 'the pioneers' of early childhood is deemed essential knowledge for anyone
seeking to understand how contemporary conceptualisations of child/hood have come …

This paper recounts a workshop that took place in a polytunnel in a forest school in Sligo,
North-West Ireland on a cold day in early-December. The event sought to materialize …

This article concerns itself with the everyday politics of childhood and the ways research
might continue to attend to inequities while simultaneously engaging in an ontological …

This paper dwells upon what was agitated in a research methods workshop that invited
postgraduate researchers to take seriously materiality, movement, bodies and affect–as a …

This article challenges anthropocentric views of childhood by adopting a posthumanist, new
materialist perspective, positioning sand as an active agent in children's world-making …

This chapter attends to a critical analysis of the ways in which the early childhood education
workforce in England experiences a series of fundamental social injustices. Through a …

This chapter offers a Playful Archive which t (h) reads a path through research undertaken in
childhood studies over the author's past decade, insisting that uncertainty, speculation, and …

Friedrich Froebel is often positioned in contemporary landscapes of early childhood
education as a 'pioneer', strongly associated with an emphasis on self-directed activity and …

In this chapter, a range of theoretical views on gender development in children are explored,
from developmental and socialisation theory to feminist post-structuralism and new …