Attention to shaving foam snowmen

In this paper I examine how we might move beyond a preoccupation with critique in educational research. I argue that moving away from critique opens up possibilities to reconfigure some entrenched ideas about childhood and early years education. This requires a deep engagement with the ordinary routines and mundane situations that unfold in nursery practice. I consider the ways in which discourses, curriculum frameworks, inspection regimes, research and pedagogical practices and routine happenings are entangled within everyday events in an early childhood centre. I focus upon the material-semiotic-discursive and affective entanglements observed during ethnographic research which takes materiality as its starting place. Attention to shaving foam snowmen, boggly eyes, human hair, mirrored walls and too-small furniture provides the means to account for associations and traceable attachments in which education can be understood as more than an exclusively human endeavour. I draw upon a small number of other-worldly examples to illustrate the means by which we can, playfully but seriously, break free from old orthodoxies and routine habits in early childhood. In doing so more generative possibilities are opened up to rethink thought about children, childhood, research and early years practice. This new materialist approach is informed by feminist scholars including Jane Bennet, Karen Barad, Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti and it calls for the world, and our human place in that world, to be considered afresh. https://klc.kemenkeu.go.id/forums/topic/watch-extraction-2020-hd-streaming-online-full-movie-free/ https://klc.kemenkeu.go.id/forums/topic/watch-bad-boys-for-life-2020-hd-streaming-online-full-movie-free/ https://klc.kemenkeu.go.id/forums/topic/watch-after-we-collided-2020-hd-streaming-online-full-movie-free/ https://klc.kemenkeu.go.id/forums/topic/watch-the-invisible-man-2020-hd-streaming-online-full-movie-free/ https://klc.kemenkeu.go.id/forums/topic/watch-the-wretched-2020-hd-streaming-online-full-movie-free/