Explorations of the Tensions and Potentials of De-Centering the Human in Early Childhood Education Research

ABSTRACT

This introduction serves as a general introduction to the symposium on “Explorations of the Tensions and Potentials of De-Centering the Human in Early Childhood Education Research.” More-than-human theoretical perspectives (such as new feminist materialism and critical posthumanism) have provided pedagogical, methodological and conceptual tools for attending to the ways in which young children’s learning subjectivities emerge within relational ontologies of entangled human and more-than-human actors, where the material and the discursive are always already interconnected.

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Notes on contributors

Fikile Nxumalo

Fikile Nxumalo is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Cristina Delgado Vintimilla

Cristina Delgado Vintimilla is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education, York University.