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100 1 _aNxumalo, Fikile
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245 1 0 _aTowards ‘refiguring presences’ as an anti-colonial orientation to research in early childhood studies
_cFikile Nxumalo
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260 _c2016
520 3 _aIn this paper, I craft a methodological orientation for attending to the intricacies of everyday place encounters in early childhood settings with particular attention to settler colonialism and more-than-human entanglements. Drawing from my work with children and educators in childcare settings located in what is now British Columbia, Canada, I use refiguring presences to describe this research methodology, and its particular attention to unsettling everyday place relations in early childhood pedagogies within the context of settler colonialism. I situate refiguring presences in everyday material-discursive impacts in an effort to open up the potentialities and boundaries of political engagement in early childhood studies. I experiment with refiguring presences in relation to what I see as its most important elements. These elements include attending to colonialisms in everyday encounters, restorying contested places, foregrounding more-than-human relationalities and (dis)entangling researcher subjectivities.
650 0 _aEarly childhood education
_xResearch
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773 0 _tInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
_gVol. 29, no. 5 (2016), p. 640-654
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