Entangling Young Children’s Identities Through Belonging Cartographies: Critical Questions for Researching With Children

• In Event: Thursday Roundtable Session 10:50 am
  In Roundtable Session: Critical Consciousness With Children and Youth (Table 18)

Abstract

This presentation re-imagines how postqualitative research with young children can counter racist and marginalising injustices in educational settings. Drawing on a pilot project it reflects on moments that ‘capture’ potential lines of flight with and by young migrant children and their experiences of identity and belonging. Its aim is to (re)conceptualise movements, stillness and shattering of thoughts, actions, feelings, as children’s participation and contributions offer diverse ways for us to engage with ‘data’ and identities. Theorised through contemporary feminist, philosophical, human and posthuman disruptions of hierarchical and linear representations of bodies-material-thought ontologies, and data, this presentation is a conceptual and empirical engagement with calls for raising educational possibilities for young children.

Authors

• Sonja Arndt, University of Melbourne

• Kylie Smith, University of Melbourne

• Nicola J. Yelland, University of Melbourne