Baby wandering inside day-care: retracing directionality trough cartography

ABSTRACT

This work is a part of ‘baby studies’ as a specific field of research. The aim of the paper is to explore how the directionality of the lines of wandering inform us about babies’ sense-making and which kinds of lines of wandering children enact in day-care. The application of cartographic maps and participative observation are proposed as methodologies to trace the direction of babies as tension between materiality and individuation in day-care centres. Field work was carried out in two day-care centres in France and in Brazil.

KEYWORDS:

• Materiality
• borders
• individuation process
• cartography

Acknowledgments

The authors also thank the ‘BebÊEEducação’ study group of the State University of Campinas – UNICAMP.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Additional information

Funding

The work was possible thank the support of the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo – FAPESP funding (Process number 2018/26635-6).

Notes on contributors

Impedovo Maria Antonietta

Impedovo Maria Antonietta, PhD, is Associate Professor at ADEF Laboratory, Aix-Marseille University, France. She was granted a Master degree in Educational Psychology at University of Bari (Italy) in 2009. She held her PhD about Educational Technology in Italy, followed by a postdoc in Swiss. She teaches at School of Education Aix-Marseille University, France. Her main research interests are sensemaking and sociocultural research.

Gabriela Guarnieri de Campos Tebet

Gabriela Guarnieri de Campos Tebet PhD, is Associate Professor at UNICAMP – Departamento de Ciências Sociais na Educação, Campinas, San Paolo, Brasil. Her main research interests are childhood education.