Becoming "babies" in real time: Temporal emergence in the classroom mangle. (December 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Myers, Casey Y
• Other Names: Tesar Marek guest-editor.; Farquhar Sandy guest-editor.; Gibbons Andrew guest-editor.; Myers Casey Y. guest-editor.; Bloch Marianne N. guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Contemporary issues in early childhood. Volume 17:Number 4(2016:Dec.)
• Page Start: 421
• Page End: 430
• Publication Date: 2016-12
• Subjects: kindergarten -- play -- posthuman -- post-qualitative -- temporality -- time; Child development -- Periodicals; Early childhood education -- Periodicals; Children -- Periodicals; Social work with children -- Periodicals; 305.231
• DOI: 10.1177/1463949116677926
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1463-9491

Abstract

Through multimodal retellings of kindergarten children's performances of "baby, " this article aims to contribute to the emerging "posthuman conversation" within early childhood studies. Specifically, this work makes moves toward reconceptualizing children's becomings within educational contexts by, first, interrogating the ways in which adult notions of "time" came to bear upon children's enactments of "babies" within classroom pretend play performances and, second, exploring how posthuman conceptions of temporality—specifically Pickering's "mangle"—can disrupt developmental analyses of children's (un)timely performances and accommodate a more nuanced version of childhood becoming(s).