Merleau-Ponty’s ‘wild Being’

Tangling with the entanglements of research with the very young

Bibliographic Data

ID8858276
AuthorsSheena Elwick (0000-0003-2942-6278, Charles Sturt University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume52
Issue2
Pages149-158
Publication date2019-05-27
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00131857.2019.1618275
OpenAlexW2947838462
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited17

This article draws on a study of infant participation in research, and work in philosophical-empirical inquiry, to illuminate some of the inexhaustible entanglements constituting the collective relational landscape of educational research of particular encounters, which have been called moments of wonder. Working with Merleau-Ponty’s philosophical notions of wild Being and flesh, I look closely at one such ‘moment’, as lived as an entanglement of embodied self, worldly things, and other selves that collectively comes into being whilst opening onto time and space. I see this account as demonstrating the value of learning to see the ‘collective’, wherein individualities are engendered, for developing new understandings of early childhood education (ECE) relational landscapes, specifically in relation to ‘participatory’ research with very young children – and educational research more generally

Aesthetics · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Relation (database · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Value (mathematics · Wonder · Children's Rights and Participation · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub