INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON MATERIALITY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDIES
Abstract
Materials live in the world in multiple ways. They can evoke memories, narrate stories, invite actions, and communicate meanings. Materials and objects create meeting places. In early childhood education we gather around things to investigate, negotiate, converse, and share. Materials – a block of clay, pots of paint, a brush, a colourful wire, a translucent sheet of paper, a rectangular block – beckon and draw us in. Materials are not immutable, passive, or lifeless until the moment we do something to them; they participate in our early childhood projects. They live, speak, gesture, and call to us. (Kind, 2014, p. 865 of this issue)
This special issue of the International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies (IJCYFS) focuses on non-traditional approaches to materiality in relation to learning in early childhood education. The articles emerged, in large part, from a three-year study funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), entitled Encounters with Materials in Early Education, through which the editors conducted a visual ethnography study in two early childhood centres in Western Canada. That research provoked interest in exploring more broadly how notions of materiality are taken up in different contexts.
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