Postdigital Play and Global Education: Reconfiguring Research [Hardcover]

Preface Candace Kuby. Foreword Luzia Souza and Heloisa Silva. Chapter 1: Storying the Children, Technology and Play (CTAP) Project. Chapter 2: The post in postdigital play. Chapter 3: Playing with Lenses: from Object, to Subject, to Phenomenon. Chapter 4: Reconfiguring transcription in educational research. Chapter 5: Reconfiguring research sites as worldmaking practices. Chapter 6: Reconfiguring agency and creativity in young childrens postdigital play. Chapter 7: Tentacular moves for postdigital research. References. Index.

This book is a game changer for researchers drawing on postqualitative educational research in postdigital times. The authors have produced an exceptional storying of methodology and theory that opens thinking and practice. The same text also offers practical definitions and ways of working founded in the writings of known and new thinkers. Perhaps the book's greatest achievement is the decentering of western ways of knowing from the study of global children. A highlight is to read about children from the global south as children, not as deficit children or deficit Adults.

Professor Annette Woods, School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education. Queensland University of Technology

Staying with the discomfort produced by having to conform to the requirements of a large-scale international research project, these researchers from the Global South re-turn to the data they collected. They show how data reveals itself differently in relation to posthuman, postdigital and decolonial theories. Concepts and methods relating to the?Posts-?are clearly explained and put to work, unsettling taken for granted assumptions about developmentalism, play and quantitative research methods. This opens the way for re-imaginings of research subjects, transcription, research sites and data analysis, in other words, for doing research difflóÊ