Researching With Children of the Anthropocene: A New Paradigm?

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Author(s): Margaret Somerville (Western Sydney University, Australia)and Sarah Powell (Macquarie University, Australia)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 22
Source title: Educational Research in the Age of Anthropocene
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Vicente Reyes (University of Queensland, Australia), Jennifer Charteris (University of New England, Australia), Adele Nye (University of New England, Australia)and Sofia Mavropoulou (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5317-5.ch002

Keywords: Curriculum Development and Instructional Design / Information Science Reference / Library & Information Science / Research Methods

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This chapter takes the age of Anthropocene as the time of human entanglement in the fate of the planet, dated by some from the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We propose, however, that the full awareness of the consequences of this entanglement will only be felt by children born in the twenty-first century into an entirely different world than the one we know and understand. Interestingly, in the light of this contention, early childhood leads the field of educational research in posthuman scholarship, which we associate with the rise of scholarly work galvanised around the notion of the Anthropocene. These approaches draw variously on Haraway's common worlds, Barad's new materialism, and Deleuze and Guatarri's nomadic philosophies.

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