Children who carry stones in their pockets: on autotelic material practices in everyday life

Rautio, Pauliina

doi:10.1080/14733285.2013.812278

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“…I wore them as part of my clothes, and they jingled against my leg as I walked. The children became stone-throwing-with stones in the momentary event at the river, produced by a mesh of related human and nonhuman bodies (Rautio, 2014). In this way of thinking, all matter, including human children and THINKING CRITICALLY WITH CHILDREN OF THE ANTHROPOCENE stones, are constantly in a state of becoming through these encounters between diverse bodies.…”

Section: Event Of Place 1: Stones and Rivermentioning

confidence: 99%

Thinking Critically with Children of the Anthropocene

Somerville¹

2017

International Review of Qualitative Research

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In her Deleuzean analysis of advanced capitalism, Braidotti notes that all previous emancipatory positions have been co-opted by the marketplace and that even our earth others -animals, seeds, plants, and the Earth as a whole -have been subsumed by advanced capitalism. This article addresses the need for a reconceptualised critical qualitative inquiry within the context of advanced capitalism and increasing recognition of humaninduced changes in the planet's biosphere. Justice is understood in relation to the more-than-human world and its entangled children born into the 21st century. Stenger's recommendation of thinking with the more-than-human is adapted to thinking methodologically with children in an experiment designed to explore intra-action. The article concludes that following children in their playful encounters opens a space where matter and meaning, time and space, and the being of the adult researcher is reshaped into an entangled material world.

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Section: Event Of Place 1: Stones and Rivermentioning

confidence: 99%

Thinking Critically with Children of the Anthropocene

Somerville¹

2017

International Review of Qualitative Research

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“…Beighton, 2012;Gorur, 2011Gorur, , 2014. Young people's geographers and geographers of education have also found sociomaterial approaches useful for enriching the theoretical and methodological debates in relation to formal and informal contexts of learning (Fenwick and Edwards, 2010;Horton and Kraftl, 2006;Jöns, 2006;Rautio, 2013). Crossing the boundaries between university and school, researchers have initiated new debates that have helped to read and analyse everyday classroom encounters through the lenses of ANT and socio-material approaches.…”

Section: Research On Educational Selection and Geographies Of Educationmentioning

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Framing, overflowing, and fuzzy logic in educational selection: Zurich as a case study

Bauer

2018

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. This paper uses the concepts of "framing and overflowing" (Callon, 1998) and "fuzzy logic" (Zadeh, 2015) to show the application and relevance of critically examining educational selection beyond the particular local context. It examines the empirical example of the central entrance examination procedure to grammar schools in the canton of Zurich. The main argument illuminates the widely neglected grey zones and the fuzzy logic lying at the heart of the selection machinery for higher education. This article elaborates fruitful links between the local case study and international discourses on the geography of education and educational research. It thus shows how a socio-material approach may build bridges not only between international and national educational discourse and local practice but also between academic research and a socio-political engagement that cares about young people's educational realities and futures.

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“…3 For example, the special issue edited by Horton, Kraftl, & Tucker [2008]; children being caught up in research by Pyer [2008]; rhythmanalysis of school journeys by Kullman & Palludan, [2011]; about the banality of everyday by Rautio [2013]; emotional events that 'haunt' and return in research by Hadfield-Hill & Horton [2014]; and openness, messiness and ongoingness by Pyyry [2015] to list but a few who engaged with the challenge in this journal. 4 The 'I' engaged in the actual research per se is the first author.…”

Section: Place Making In the Home Corner: First Approximationmentioning

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‘Overspills’ of research with children: an argument for slow research

Millei

Rautio

2017

Children's Geographies

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We take on the challenge posed by Horton & Kraftl (2006b, p. 71) that research be 'slowed down' through methodological and theoretical routes to acknowledge seemingly trivial details in children's lives. Based on an ethnographic study in an Australian preschool focusing on children's place-making in a globalizing world, this paper discusses one event in the home corner to exemplify what we understand as and how we enact methodological slowness. The event is revisited by recognising the role of the unexpected, the troubling and paying attention to data that overspills the research engagement in conducting 'ideally preset qualitative research'. Research engagements not only reflect but also produce children's lives. Researching 'the global' is 'doing the global' as the frames, practices and traditions of research itself are part and parcel of the so-called answers we produce. As result, a more nuanced and complex understanding of how 'the global' is made and circulated by children surfaces.

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Children who carry stones in their pockets: on autotelic material practices in everyday life

Cited by 298 publications

References 52 publications

Thinking Critically with Children of the Anthropocene

Thinking Critically with Children of the Anthropocene

Framing, overflowing, and fuzzy logic in educational selection: Zurich as a case study

‘Overspills’ of research with children: an argument for slow research

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