Movement and Experimentation in Young Children's Learning

This ground-breaking book connects apparently disparate subjects; the very young learning child in the field of early childhood education and the thinking of Deleuze and Guattari in the field of philosophy.

In contemporary educational contexts young children and learning are tamed, predicted, and evaluated according to predetermined standards. Contesting such intense governing of the learning child, this book argues that the challenge to practice and research is to find ways of regaining movement and experimentation in subjectivity and learning.

Autorentext

Liselott Mariett Olsson is in the Department of Didactic Science and Early Childhood Education at the University of Stockholm, Sweden.

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Contents Foreword Acknowledgements PROLOGUE ENTERING A PROBLEM Walking and surfing Purpose of the study; the construction of a problem PART I - CONTEXTUALIZING THE PROBLEM 1. Practical resources: preschools in Stockholm and its suburbs, where subjectivity and learning take on the features of a relational field 2. Theoretical resources: a Deleuzian/Guattarian philosophy of relations and creations, and experimental empiricism 3. Micropolitics and segmentarity in early childhood education PART II - METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH 4. Pedagogical work and transcendental empiricism 5. Pedagogical documentation treated as events, a culture, a use, a style PART III - ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSIONS 6. Assemblages of desire in early childhood education 7. Conclusions EPILOGUE-OUT OF ORDER Notes References