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Postdigital Play and Global Education : Reconfiguring Research

Part of the Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Research series
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Postdigital Play and Global Education: Reconfiguring Research is a re-turn to a large-scale, international project on children’s digital play.

Adopting postqualitative and posthumanist theories, research practices are reconfigured, all the way down from what counts as ‘data’, ‘tools’, ‘instruments’, ‘transcription’, research sites’, ‘researchers’, to notions of responsibility and accountability in qualitative research.

Through a series of vignettes involving complex human and more-than-human collaborators (e.g., GoPros, octopus, avatars, diaries, sack ball, LEGO bricks), the authors challenge who and what can be playful and creative across contexts in the global north and south.

The diffractive methodology enacted interrupts western developmental notions of agency that are dominant in research involving young children. The concept of ‘postdigital’ offers fresh opportunities to disrupt dominant understandings of children’s play.

Play emerges as an enigmatic and shape-shifting human and more-than-human agentic force that operates beyond digital/non-digital, online/offline binaries.

By attuning to race, gender, age and language, invisible and colonising aspects of postdigital worldings the authors show how global education research can be reimagined through a posthumanist decentering of children without erasure. Postdigital Play and Global Education puts into practice Karen Barad’s agential realism, but also a range of postdevelopmental and posthumanist writings from diverse fields.

The book will be of particular interest to researchers looking for guidance to enact agential realist and posthumanist philosophies in research involving young children.

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Published 09/07/2024
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Routledge
1032070277 / 9781032070278
Paperback / softback
306.481
09/07/2024
United Kingdom
English
192 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour).