Pedagogical Narrations’ Potentiality as a Methodology for Child Studies Research

Abstract

This article offers an extension to the use of pedagogical narrations by con-sidering it as a methodology for post-foundational child studies research. The author contends that pedagogical narrations have evolved into a methodological approach that is able to attend to the complexity and plural-ity of childhood. The article begins with a brief review of the evolution of child studies and some of the legacies of modernism that continue to impact childhood research today. This is fol-lowed by an overview of how the process of pedagogical narrations has served to resist particular modernist assumptions. It concludes with an exploration of how this process holds the potential to blur the boundaries between such dichotomous binaries as child/adult, theory/practice and mat-ter/discourse and open up spaces and dialogue for an ethical approach to childhood research.