Researching Child-Dog Relationships and Narratives in the Classroom

Rhythms of Posthuman Childhoods
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-43424-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Explorations in Developmental Psychology

This interdisciplinary book explores posthuman and psychological approaches to childhood education and well-being by examining ‘animal-assisted’ education, using qualitative approaches to understand the nuanced mechanisms which unfold in child-dog interactions.

Mapping the lives of children in a primary school setting and the relationships they share with their school and classroom dog, Ted, the book provides insight into everyday child-dog encounters, the importance of touch in middle childhood and how ‘bodiment’ offers a corporeal and compassionate means to understand the rhythm and musicality in interspecies communication. In doing so, the book uses the unique orientation of ‘rhythmanalysis’, a posthuman critical theory, and new materialist orientation in multispecies empathic childhood flourishing in the future. Reflecting contemporary interest in child-dog companionship, picture books, children’s flourishing, and children’s well-being, the book provides a nuanced multi-disciplinary overview of the field.

Using creative methods as well as spatial, sensory, and movement theory, this book will appeal to scholars, researchers, and academics in the fields of cognitive psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, and primary and elementary education. Those interested in the early years will also benefit from this volume.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carlyle, Donna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Tierpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction



PART I: PRELUDE

Chapter 1 Empathic ethnography: A ‘body’ of evidence in fieldwork as methodological praxis



PART II: ENSEMBLE

Chapter 2 Ted ‘makes it feel like home’: Emergent peer-creaturely culture



PART III: RITORNELLO

Chapter 3 The significance of sensory creaturely comfort in child-dog encounters: Touch in the classroom



PART IV: OPUS and FUGUE

Chapter 4 Fascinating rhythms: A soundscape and comic book as rhythmic events and choreographies



PART V: CADENCE and CODA

Chapter 5 Towards a creaturely, loving pedagogy: Ted as ‘pedadog’



Ostinato

Über Autor(innen)

Donna Carlyle is Assistant Professor, Post-Doctorate Researcher, and former Specialist Health Visitor and Psychotherapist, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, UK.