Wednesday, 8 November 2017
16:00-17:30
Brooks Building, Room 2.10 , Brooks Building, Room 2.10
Brooks Building, Room 2.10
Affective Methodologies in Early Childhood Research: adventures in ethical recklessness
Dr Jayne Osgood, Middlesex University, UK
MacLure (2015) encourages us to view research as ‘an adventure requiring care and recklessness’. In a recent study concerned to reconfigure ‘diversity’ in early childhood contexts I find myself caught in a tangle of ontological insecurity when some of the old certainties associated with critical qualitative enquiry are displaced. How can we exercise care and open ourselves to reckless creative experimentation? How reckless or careful must we be when we are engaging in methodologies designed to generate, produce, and/or capture affects? Can or should we be exercising ethical recklessness? How can and do we re-negotiate the humanist expectations that are set out for us as researchers in early childhood education. This paper attends to some of these sticky knots.
Biography: Dr Jayne Osgood is Professor of Education (Gender & Early Years) working at the Centre for Education Research & Scholarship at Middlesex University. Her present methodologies and research practices are framed by feminist new materialism. She is developing transdisciplinary theoretical approaches that maintain a concern with issues of social justice, and which critically engage with early childhood policy, curricular frameworks and pedagogical approaches. Through her work she seeks to trouble and extend understandings of the workforce, families, ‘the child’ and ‘childhood’ in early years contexts. She has published extensively on these issues and is currently co-editor on the Gender & Education Journal and Reconceptualising Educational Research Methodology Journal which are at the forefront of publishing methodologically and theoretically rich contributions to the field of educational research.
Event contact Elaine Sheehan · E.Sheehan@mmu.ac.uk