Postdevelopmental Approaches to Babyhood
Postdevelopmental Approaches to Babyhood
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Description
Postdevelopmental Approaches to Babyhood critiques and challenges the existing developmentalist paradigm that constrains our understandings of contemporary babyhood. The discourse that surrounds babies tends to focus on to what extent they are carrying out the behaviours associated with a particular age and stage such as: Are they rolling over yet? Are they sitting up yet? Are they grabbing toys yet? This book explores what exists beyond these 'yet' questions and asks what it might mean to view babyhood through a postdevelopmentalist perspective with a focus on pedagogy, observation, relationships, the material environment, home and institutional contexts and baby rearing in diverse cultural contexts. The book includes chapters from researchers and practitioners based in Australia, Spain, Sweden, UAE, the UK and the USA, who draw on diverse theoretical and methodological approaches including multimodality and social semiotics, posthumanism and feminist new materialism, sociocultural approaches to learning, postdevelopmental psychology, psychoanalysis and more.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Mona Sakr and Jayne Osgood (Middlesex University, UK)
1. Resisting Historical Norms and Repetitions in Early Childhood, Lindsay Schofield (United Arab Emirates University, UAE)
2. Exploring the Postdevelopmental/Developmental Divide, Sheena Elwick (Charles Sturt University, Australia)
3. Postdevelopmental Perspectives On Infants At Risk, Arianne Critchley (University of Stirling, UK)
4. Materiality and Musical Dynamics in Babies' Early Interactions, Ana Rocio Moreno-Nunez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
5. Historical Narratives as Windows into Babies' Social and Spiritual Lives, Katherine Cross (York St John University, UK)
6. Re-imagining Breastfeeding as Creative Play Between Baby and Mother Using Multimodal Interaction Analysis, Mona Sakr (Middlesex University, UK)
7. Exploring Movement, Absence and Tiny Things in Babyhood, Alex Ormalm and Johanna Annerbäck (Linköping University, Sweden)
8. Collaborative Decision-Making Interactions Between Babies, Parents and the Public Environment, Anna Jackson (Liverpool Hope University, UK)
9. A Research Comic On Anthropologists Listening To Babies, Sally Pirie (University of Massachusetts, USA)
10. Exploring a Pedagogy Centered on Seeing and Being with Babies, Kayla Hall (Independent Researcher, UK)
11. A Rights-Respecting Pedagogy with Babies, Mandy Cuttler (LEYF, UK)
Conclusion, Mona Sakr and Jayne Osgood (Middlesex University, UK)
References
Index
Product details
| Published | Oct 15 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350518896 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Series | Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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