Postdevelopmental approaches to childhood art

In early childhood research, children's art-making has typically been viewed and understood through a lens of developmental psychology and the notion that children's art-making progresses through a linear series of stages continues to dominate how we design and implement art-making experiences for young children.

This book brings together the work of theorists from around the world who have presented postdevelopmental approaches to early childhood art, thereby playing a vital part in unsettling the dominance of the developmental paradigm and offering worked examples of alternative models.

Drawing on sociocultural theory, Deleuzian philosophy, posthumanism and postmodernism, each chapter offers a theoretical basis that challenges developmentalism, as well as an application of that theoretical basis.