Wearing and daring the hat – Exploring the materialities of children’s experiences in research

The aim of the paper is to explore how the materialities of EEG caps became vital to produce knowledge on children’s experiences in a research project. By closely examining a six-week exploration together with six five-year-olds at their preschool, the paper focuses on how the making of alternative...

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Main Author: Linnea Bodén
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Early Childhood Education Association Finland 2019-12-01
Series:Journal of Early Childhood Education Research
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Online Access:https://journal.fi/jecer/article/view/114116
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description The aim of the paper is to explore how the materialities of EEG caps became vital to produce knowledge on children’s experiences in a research project. By closely examining a six-week exploration together with six five-year-olds at their preschool, the paper focuses on how the making of alternative EEG hats became a worldly and worlding (Haraway, 2008) practice, and was productive of new potential worlds. The exploration is part of a research project that investigates children’s experiences in a large intervention project, at 28 Swedish preschool units. The analysis shows the ways in which materialities were not only related to these experiences, but also crucial for them to emerge. The conclusions highlight that children’s experiences, in the exploratory work, expanded in time and space and that the practices connected to the materialities of the hats came to include other worlding processes, made elsewhere and in other situations.
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spelling doaj.art-69f2b365085343e8aa365bb8f86530422022-12-22T04:25:10ZengEarly Childhood Education Association FinlandJournal of Early Childhood Education Research2323-74142019-12-0182Wearing and daring the hat – Exploring the materialities of children’s experiences in researchLinnea Bodén0Stockholm university, Sweden The aim of the paper is to explore how the materialities of EEG caps became vital to produce knowledge on children’s experiences in a research project. By closely examining a six-week exploration together with six five-year-olds at their preschool, the paper focuses on how the making of alternative EEG hats became a worldly and worlding (Haraway, 2008) practice, and was productive of new potential worlds. The exploration is part of a research project that investigates children’s experiences in a large intervention project, at 28 Swedish preschool units. The analysis shows the ways in which materialities were not only related to these experiences, but also crucial for them to emerge. The conclusions highlight that children’s experiences, in the exploratory work, expanded in time and space and that the practices connected to the materialities of the hats came to include other worlding processes, made elsewhere and in other situations.https://journal.fi/jecer/article/view/114116children’s experiencesEEG capsexploratory researchworlding
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Wearing and daring the hat – Exploring the materialities of children’s experiences in research
Journal of Early Childhood Education Research
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exploratory research
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title Wearing and daring the hat – Exploring the materialities of children’s experiences in research
title_full Wearing and daring the hat – Exploring the materialities of children’s experiences in research
title_fullStr Wearing and daring the hat – Exploring the materialities of children’s experiences in research
title_full_unstemmed Wearing and daring the hat – Exploring the materialities of children’s experiences in research
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