This book argues that developmental approaches to observation in childhood pedagogy are limiting, restrictive, and present social justice dilemmas. This book un

This book argues that developmental approaches to observation in childhood pedagogy are limiting, that there is an urgent need to unsettle and reimagine observa

This book challenges the developmentalist paradigm that dominates research into children and childhood, focusing on observation as a research method. It offers

This text rearticulates understandings of materials—blocks of clay, sheets of paper, brushes and paints, fabrics, and plastics—to formulate new ideas about

In childhood research, children's art-making has typically been viewed and understood through a lens of developmental psychology and the notion that children's