Articulating encounters between children and plastics. (November 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kraftl, Peter; Hadfield-Hill, Sophie; Jarman, Polly; Lynch, Iseult; Menzel, Alice; Till, Ruth; Walker, Amy
• Is Part Of: Childhood. Volume 29:Number 4(2022)
• Page Start: 478
• Page End: 494
• Publication Date: 2022-11
• Subjects: Environmental education -- interdisciplinary research -- popular culture -- everyday life -- new materialism -- posthumanism -- arts-based methods; Children -- Periodicals; Child development -- Periodicals; Children -- Research -- Periodicals; 305.23
• DOI: 10.1177/09075682221100879
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0907-5682

Abstract

In the context of global concerns about plastics, this paper sets out and exemplifies a research agenda for articulating children's encounters with plastics. The paper analyses data co-produced with 11–15 year-olds through interviews, app-based research and experimental/arts-led workshops. It moves beyond scholarship in health and environmental sciences, and in environmental education research, to outline a far richer range of ways to conceptualise children's encounters with plastics, based in children's everyday, embodied and emotive interactions with plastics.