J Peers
Biographic Data
| ID | 1685233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Peers |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Peers |
| SIGNATURE | PEERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oulu |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1784-0191 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Un/Learning Adult Frames of Reference in Death Enquiries
Developmental psychology continues to shape how adults engage with children about death and dying. This influences whether children are included in rituals surrounding human and other‐than‐human bodies. Figurations of the innocent, immature and vulnerable child still dominate adult imaginaries of young children's understandings of mortality. The fabulist picturebook Frog and the Birdsong (1991) by Dutch creator Max Velthuijs opens a radical space…
I just go headbutt a tree or something’
The relationship between children’s digital play and well-being remains under-researched, with debates often polarised and limited by a lack of holistic studies in diverse global contexts. This article draws on empirical data from an ecoculturally informed study of children’s (6–12) digital play in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia and Cyprus to examine how individual and contextual circumstances influence children’s self-led digital pl…
Reconceptualizing early childhood education
In this article, we enact a partial cartographic storying of reconceptualist turns in our work. We do this by situating ourselves in relation to each other and our work across time as a mode of tracing the (situated) possibilities that these turns have enacted for children-in-relation with worlds. In enacting this dialogic and cartographic storying, we collaborate in a way that is inspired by Black methodologies. This means that we intentionally …
Researching digital inequalities in children’s play with technology in South Africa
This paper reports on the South African findings from an international mixed methods study between the LEGO Foundation, Dubit and the Universities of Sheffield (England) and Cape Town (South Africa) on young children’s learning with digital technology. The findings of the study, the first of its kind in South Africa, show the consistency of qualities and experience of play, but also reveal socio-economic, linguistic, ethnic, gender and racial ine…
Meandering as learning
This paper meanders with students from the Centre for Creative Education to understand care and our relationship with Camissa. The authors explore Slow scholarship and research-creation frameworks that disrupt practices which remain entrenched in colonial, anthropocentric and patriarchal systems. Apartheid is felt by Black and Brown bodies through exclusions from the ocean and other spaces. This paper explores how enquiries and innovations open s…
An ecological perspective on children's play with digital technologies in South Africa and the United Kingdom
This paper reports a mixed-methods study of the play of children (3-11) with digital technologies in South Africa (SA) and the United Kingdom (UK), discussing the interrelatedness of access to devices and the Internet, contextual realities, and adult-child relations. An adapted ecological model [Bronfenbrenner (1979) The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design. Harvard University Press] guided analysis. Parents and carers i…
GoPro(blem)s and possibilities
In response to the call for papers for this special issue and the questions it poses, the authors show how the ontological posthumanist shift of agential realism does not erase but keeps the child human of colour in play, despite the inclusion of the other-than-(Adult)human in its methodologies. Through a montaging technique, the authors explore the philosophical complexity of ‘decentering without erasure’ by re-turning to data from a large inter…
An ecological perspective on children's play with digital technologies in South Africa and the United Kingdom
This paper reports a mixed-methods study of the play of children (3-11) with digital technologies in South Africa (SA) and the United Kingdom (UK), discussing the interrelatedness of access to devices and the Internet, contextual realities, and adult-child relations. An adapted ecological model [Bronfenbrenner (1979) The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design. Harvard University Press] guided analysis. Parents and carers i…
Meandering as learning
This paper meanders with students from the Centre for Creative Education to understand care and our relationship with Camissa. The authors explore Slow scholarship and research-creation frameworks that disrupt practices which remain entrenched in colonial, anthropocentric and patriarchal systems. Apartheid is felt by Black and Brown bodies through exclusions from the ocean and other spaces. This paper explores how enquiries and innovations open s…
GoPro(blem)s and possibilities
In response to the call for papers for this special issue and the questions it poses, the authors show how the ontological posthumanist shift of agential realism does not erase but keeps the child human of colour in play, despite the inclusion of the other-than-(Adult)human in its methodologies. Through a montaging technique, the authors explore the philosophical complexity of ‘decentering without erasure’ by re-turning to data from a large inter…
Researching digital inequalities in children’s play with technology in South Africa
This paper reports on the South African findings from an international mixed methods study between the LEGO Foundation, Dubit and the Universities of Sheffield (England) and Cape Town (South Africa) on young children’s learning with digital technology. The findings of the study, the first of its kind in South Africa, show the consistency of qualities and experience of play, but also reveal socio-economic, linguistic, ethnic, gender and racial ine…
Meandering as learning
This paper meanders with students from the Centre for Creative Education to understand care and our relationship with Camissa. The authors explore Slow scholarship and research-creation frameworks that disrupt practices which remain entrenched in colonial, anthropocentric and patriarchal systems. Apartheid is felt by Black and Brown bodies through exclusions from the ocean and other spaces. This paper explores how enquiries and innovations open s…
An ecological perspective on children's play with digital technologies in South Africa and the United Kingdom
This paper reports a mixed-methods study of the play of children (3-11) with digital technologies in South Africa (SA) and the United Kingdom (UK), discussing the interrelatedness of access to devices and the Internet, contextual realities, and adult-child relations. An adapted ecological model [Bronfenbrenner (1979) The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design. Harvard University Press] guided analysis. Parents and carers i…
Reconceptualizing early childhood education
In this article, we enact a partial cartographic storying of reconceptualist turns in our work. We do this by situating ourselves in relation to each other and our work across time as a mode of tracing the (situated) possibilities that these turns have enacted for children-in-relation with worlds. In enacting this dialogic and cartographic storying, we collaborate in a way that is inspired by Black methodologies. This means that we intentionally …
I just go headbutt a tree or something’
The relationship between children’s digital play and well-being remains under-researched, with debates often polarised and limited by a lack of holistic studies in diverse global contexts. This article draws on empirical data from an ecoculturally informed study of children’s (6–12) digital play in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia and Cyprus to examine how individual and contextual circumstances influence children’s self-led digital pl…
Un/Learning Adult Frames of Reference in Death Enquiries
Developmental psychology continues to shape how adults engage with children about death and dying. This influences whether children are included in rituals surrounding human and other‐than‐human bodies. Figurations of the innocent, immature and vulnerable child still dominate adult imaginaries of young children's understandings of mortality. The fabulist picturebook Frog and the Birdsong (1991) by Dutch creator Max Velthuijs opens a radical space…
Sociology (4 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (3 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · ICT in Developing Communities (2 works) · Literacy, Media, and Education (2 works)