34.092 - Plural Ways of Seeing Young Children in Early Childhood Education and Care: A Visual Engagement With Voice(s)

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium critically examines seeing as a visual means of knowing children through a visual surplus lens. The symposium papers re-constitute ways of understanding young learners through a series of polyphonic approaches that offer a more legitimate expression of children's agentic voice(s) than has previously been comprehended. The notion of visual surplus, first introduced to ECE by discussant, Jayne White, in 2011, has since been taken up by researchers in the field. The papers develop novel conceptions of children's voices that interrupt existing notions of children's learning as experienced within adult limits. Practical opportunities for renewal of teacher and researcher thinking are offered in the context of the humility and curiosity that is necessary in adults who seek to understand.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Technology as an Agent of Change in Teaching and Learning

Chair

• Michael A. Peters, Beijing Normal University

Papers

• Accessing and Valuing Plural Voices in Early Childhood Education and Care Through Engaging With Baradian and Bakhtinian-Inspired Approaches to Video - Laura Tallant; Rebecca Digby

• A Visual Engagement With the Competing Voices That Surround Children's Experiences of Touch Screen Devices in the Cross-Cultural Context - Dandan Cao, The University of Waikato

• Educational Possibilities of Virtual Reality in Early Childhood Education - Rene Novak, The University of Waikato

• Polyphonic Video: Providing Potential to Make Visible What Is Seen and Unseen - Bridgette Redder

Discussant

• Elizabeth Jayne White, RMIT