How and why do children become masculine or feminine? Because there is some ordained biological bipolar division of the world? Because others make them so through "socialization"? Or because the social structure requires them to "take up" identities as either male or female since no other identity is recognizable? Through listening to children themselves, this book explores what is happening - socially, emotionally and physically - as children "take themselves up" (assume identities) within the constraints of interactive (and narrative) structures. The book is directed towards students of gender studies and child development.

Frogs and Snails and Feminist Tales: Preschool Children and Gender

Davies, Bronwyn

Reference

Unwin Hyman

“At last a book that not only describes what collective biography is but also explains how to use it … The book describes how to set up collective biography workshops in which participants examine how discursive structures and power relations have both enabled and limited the conditions of possibility for their lived experience. Focusing on a more complicated reflexivity than is usually described in social science research, collective biography, inspired by Frigga Haug and refined by Davies, will no doubt be used increasingly by researchers interested in the production of subjects in a postmodern world.” Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre, University of Georgia, USA
 This book introduces the reader to collective biography, an innovative research methodology for use in education and the social sciences. The methodology of collective biography overcomes the theory/practice divide, by putting theory to use in everyday life, and using everyday life to understand and to extend theory. 
 Doing Collective Biography provides guidelines for developing a collective biography project and demonstrates how these guidelines emerged from and were shaped by projects on such topics as subjectivity, power, agency, reflexivity, literacy, gender, and neoliberalism at work. Each chapter gives a detailed example of collective biography in practice, showing how a group of students and/or scholars can work collaboratively to investigate aspects of the production of subjectivity, and clearly demonstrates how poststructural theory can be elaborated and refracted through the experiences of ordinary everyday life.
 This is key reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students on Education and social science courses with a research element, as well as for academics and professionals undertaking research projects.

Doing Collective Biography: Investigating the production of subjectivity (Conducting Educational Research)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Open University Press

The authors introduce the reader to collective biography, an innovative research methodology for use in education and the social sciences. The methodology of collective biography overcomes the theory/practice divide, by putting theory to use in everyday life, and using everyday life to understand and to extend theory.

Doing Collective Biography

Politics & Social Sciences

Gannon, Susanne

Social Sciences

Entanglement in the World’s Becoming and the Doing of New Materialist Inquiry

"The book seeks to make a range of new materialist concepts accessible to researchers in the social sciences, and to work those theoretical possibilities through data of various kinds drawn from both the author's research and autoethnographic experiences, This project works at the interface of writing-as-inquiry and the rich seam of conceptual possibilities in Deleuze, Barad, and new materialist philosophy. The powers of action, locution and thought are entangled and emergent in new materialist inquiry. They can be difficult for researchers to mobilize in their own thinking, talking and action. This book will offer a bridge between the thinking and the doing of new materialist inquiry"--

Routledge

Product Description Honourable Mention, ICQI 2022 Outstanding Qualitative Book AwardEntanglement in the World’s Becoming and the Doing of New Materialist Inquiry explores new materialist concepts and the ways in which they provoke an opening up of thought about being human, and about being more-than-human. The more-than-human refers, here, to the world that we are of – a world that includes humans, who are emergent and permeable, and all of the animal and earth others they intra-act with. It explores how we affect those others and are affected. This book engages intimately in encounters of various kinds, some drawn from the author’s everyday life, some from the research projects she has engaged in over several decades, and some from others’ research. It works at the interface of living- and writing-as-inquiry, delving into the rich seam of conceptual possibilities opened up by Deleuze and Guattari, and Barad, and by new materialist inquiry more broadly. It brings not just words to the task, but also art, photopraphs, movement, memories, bodies, sound, touch, things. It delves into the ways in which the entangled dynamics of social, material and semiotic flows and forces make up the diffractive movements through which life emerges, assembles itself, and endures. New materialist concepts, as they are explored here, offer new and emergent approaches to life itself, and to ways in which we might research our lives as they are intricately enfolded in the life of the earth. Review "Bold, new/old terms, diffraction, new materialist thought, entangled assemblages, interconnected becomings, and more, a brilliant articulation, poetic, autobiographical, lyrical, standing on the shoulders of Barad and Deleuze & Guattari, Bronwyn’s new book leads us into the next decade, BRILLIANT." -- Norman K. Denzin, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign"In Entanglement in the World’s Becoming and the Doing of New Materialist Inquiry Bronwyn Davies has written an unputdownable page-turner. It is a rare and exciting scholarly text that draws readers in. This is a clear, beautifully written book that deserves more than one reading. The writing is powerful, vulnerable and absorbing. This work is written with the generosity and sympathy that it offers and advocates. It is a book that deserves, and evokes, our attention and response-ability." Jane Speedy, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Bristol."Entanglement in the World’s Becoming and the Doing of New Materialist Inquiry is a lucid, engrossing and energising, deep dive into the possibilities and challenges facing qualitative researchers in these times. Bronwyn Davies takes us through the implications of theory into a series of experimental forays into life itself, where the researcher is implicated at every turn. This is a turn to ‘ambulatory’ methods and modes of thought: expansive, creative, unsettling and thrilling. She develops new areas of inquiry and revisits classic work on gender, subjectivity, children, schooling, academic life, intimacy, abjection, recognition, the body in place by entering into potent and often poignant moments of being and becoming. Anyone who has ever read and loved her work will be stunned again by the freshness of her thinking, rigorous and clear-eyed theoretical engagement, and courageous recasting of what it might be to be a researcher entangling with the world." -- Susanne Gannon, Associate Professor of Education, Western Sydney University"Once again, Bronwyn Davies has written a tantalising guide to the possibilities of research that entangle new materialist philosophy with post-qualitative research, autoethnography and collective biography, though this time the project is further enhanced by its engagement with the visual arts and literature. Each central chapter provides a different exemplar that works through entanglements that draw on aspects of family history, gendered violence, the position of childre

Judith Butler in Conversation: Analyzing the Texts and Talk of Everyday Life

How has Judith Butler’s writing contributed to thought in the Social Sciences and the Humanities? The participants in this project draw on various aspects of Butler’s conceptual work and they question how it has opened up the possibilities of thought in areas of study as diverse as theatre studies, education and narrative therapy.   In a format that demands careful listening and response, the scholars in this book interact with Butler, her writing, and each other. Within this dynamic space they take up Butler’s body of work and carry it in new and exciting directions. Their conversations and writing are, in turn, funny, exciting, surprising and moving.

History

How has Judith Butler's writing contributed to thought in the Social Sciences and the Humanities? The participants in this project draw on various aspects of Butler's conceptual work and they question how it has opened up the possibilities of thought in areas of study as diverse as theatre studies, education and narrative therapy. In a format that demands careful listening and response, the scholars in this book interact with Butler, her writing, and each other. Within this dynamic space they take up Butler's body of work and carry it in new and exciting directions. Their conversations and writing are, in turn, funny, exciting, surprising and moving.

This study, first published in 1982, approaches children from an ethogenic viewpoint. It records their own accounts of their social world and sees them as members of a distinct culture with its own perspective, code of behaviour and strategies for making sense of their lives. The author suggests that teachers who can take the pupil's perspective into account will work together more successfully with these pupils in the process of communicating their adult knowledge to the children. This title will be of interest to students of sociology and education.

Life in the classroom and playground: The accounts of primary school children (Social worlds of childhood)

Sociology

Routledge & K.Paul

(In)scribing Body/Landscape Relations

This is an exploration of body/landscape relations and what is possible when body and language are thought of and written together instead of in opposition to each other.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

AltaMira Press

This is an exploration of body/landscape relations and what is possible when body and language are thought of and written together instead of in opposition to each other.

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Frogs and Snails and Feminist Tales: Preschool Children and Gender

Doing Collective Biography: Investigating the production of subjectivity (Conducting Educational Research)

Doing Collective Biography

Entanglement in the World’s Becoming and the Doing of New Materialist Inquiry

Entanglement in the World’s Becoming and the Doing of New Materialist Inquiry

Judith Butler in Conversation: Analyzing the Texts and Talk of Everyday Life

Judith Butler in Conversation: Analyzing the Texts and Talk of Everyday Life

Life in the classroom and playground: The accounts of primary school children (Social worlds of childhood)

(In)scribing Body/Landscape Relations

(In)scribing Body/Landscape Relations