Creative Process and Co-Research with the Early Years through Flight

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ID22123720
AutoresRobyn Ayles (MacEwan University), Heather Fitzsimmons Frey (0000-0003-0595-1158, MacEwan University), Jamie Leach (0000-0001-9730-3953, Mount Saint Vincent University)
Año2023
Volumen9
Número1-2
Páginas278-315
Fecha de publicación2023-08-02
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPerformance Matters (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2369-2537 • E-ISSN: 2369-2537
EditorialConsortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.7202/1102399ar
OpenAlexW4385491044
IdiomaEN
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Practice-based research that meaningfully engages with very young children (ages eighteen months to five years) as co-researchers presents wonderful opportunities to co-imagine possibilities together, but it also presents challenges related to communication, a democratic process, and children’s agency. In this article, we discuss how The Urban Wildlife Project uses Flight: Alberta’s Early Learning and Care Framework to help our creative team have a relationship-centred process. We discuss how Flight’s core values of play and playfulness inform our process, how Flight’s “Cycle of Co-Inquiry” and emphasis on understanding children’s meaning-making honours children as citizens, and how several key concepts--including “co-,” a specific conception of children and childhood, play and play-informed meaning-making, and making magic--enable us to include very young children as co-researchers in our co-creation and co-imagination practices. To illuminate how the process works, we offer two examples of how we are using Flight to inform our practice-based research processes with the early years demographic, and to create meaningful immersive theatre experiences for all participants

Co-Creation · Creativity · Knowledge management · Pedagogy · Psychotherapist · Social science · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Computer Science · Digital Storytelling and Education · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Social Psychology

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