Airing Invisible Stories: Lively Storytelling in Early Childhood Education

Veronica Ibanez; Ali  Morrow; Astrid  Lackner

doi:10.18357/jcs482202320957

Authors

Veronica Ibanez https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6702-4283
Ali Morrow https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2042-3484
Astrid Lackner https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4312-2617

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs482202320957

Keywords:

early childhood education, lively stories, place-conscious pedagogies, elements, entanglements, settler-colonial atmospheres, encountering damaged worlds, (un)common languages, Air

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to approach the complexities of interdependent lifeworlds through an engagement with the multiple appearances and becomings of Air. Air’s mysterious unknowability calls forth a sense of deep listening and attunement, including the ways in which elemental and more-than-human communities communicate or encounter one another. Seeking to practice ethical and political pedagogies within contemporary early childhood care and education, the authors orient this paper within a posthumanist theoretical framework while engaging in interdisciplinary collaborations with environmental humanities and postpositivist, poststructural, feminist writings. This paper employs lively storytelling in an attempt to decenter humancentric views and to create the possibility for others to be heard.

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