Ghosts of the material world in early childhood education
Furniture matters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8106604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Bone (0000-0001-8379-0957, Monash University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 133-145 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1463-9491 • E-ISSN: 1463-9491 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1463949117749599 |
| OpenAlex | W2782848630 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 26 |
This philosophically driven work is intended to trouble the position of the small chair in early childhood settings. It is theoretically driven by an aspect of sociological and cultural theory called hauntology, and by the theories of new feminist materialism. The work of Sara Ahmed influences the direction taken here. An assemblage of personal narratives, memories, works of fiction, history, conversations and media reports, along with the documentation of a performative act, is produced. The methodological approach is intra-active and diffractive. The article argues that the small chair is a contentious and ambiguous artefact, which is taken for granted in early childhood settings, but also problematic when considered from different perspectives – an apparatus that both supports and betrays the body/ies that are in contact with it. Chairs, as objects that furnish human lives, can also haunt those lives and give contradictory messages of power, comfort and suffering. Now and to come, the chair is a trace, a symbol, an instrument of torture and object of desire
Aesthetics · Art · Documentation · Early childhood · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Materialism · Materiality (auditing · Media studies · Narrative · Object (grammar · Performative utterance · Power (physics · Sociology · Symbol (formal · Children's Rights and Participation · Computer Science · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Gender Studies · Philosophy
Becoming Haunted by a Data-Ghost in Early Childhood Education Documentation Practices
What Haunts Pedagogical Documentation? Speculating With Data-Ghost(s)
Walking-with
(In)visible perceptions of objects (‘things’) during early transitions
Encounters with stones
Lace-making epistemology; becoming a bobbin to weave knowledge with gaps in response to the agency of chairs and doors
The modern classroom chair
The (academic) chair
Beyond male recruitment
Listening to Children
New Materialism
Writing History, Writing Trauma
Orientations Matter
Sedentary Time and Its Association With Risk for Disease Incidence, Mortality, and Hospitalization in Adults
Ghostly Matters
Happy Objects
Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies
Ordinary Affects
Children who carry stones in their pockets
Getting personal
Meeting the Universe Halfway
The Affect Theory Reader
A thousand plateaus
Discipline and Punish
New materialist social inquiry
Children's Encounters With Things
Qualitative Inquiry
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |