| Title: |
Pedagogies of Liberation in Early Childhood: Diffractive Documentation Practices on More-than-Human and Human Movements |
| Language: |
English |
| Authors: |
Will Parnell (ORCID 0000-0001-6760-6582); Angela Molloy Murphy (ORCID 0000-0002-2398-9128); Elizabeth Quintero; Larisa Callaway-Cole (ORCID 0000-0002-8636-8150) |
| Source: |
Qualitative Research Journal. 2026 26(2):157-167. |
| Availability: |
Emerald Publishing Limited. Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley, West Yorkshire, BD16 1WA, UK. Tel: +44-1274-777700; Fax: +44-1274-785201; e-mail: emerald@emeraldinsight.com; Web site: http://www.emerald.com/insight |
| Peer Reviewed: |
Y |
| Page Count: |
11 |
| Publication Date: |
2026 |
| Document Type: |
Journal Articles; Reports - Research |
| Education Level: |
Early Childhood Education |
| Descriptors: |
Early Childhood Education; Early Childhood Teachers; Social Justice; Child Development; Inquiry; Creative Thinking; Ecological Factors; Cognitive Processes; Thinking Skills |
| DOI: |
10.1108/QRJ-04-2024-0090 |
| ISSN: |
1443-9883; 1448-0980 |
| Abstract: |
Purpose: This research demonstrates diffractive documentation and practice as hopeful mechanisms in which early childhood educator-protagonists are proactive rather than reactive in their work with young children. Design/methodology/approach: Our storying research process is a narrative-building approach, whereby we interrelate and diffract together to seek out new meaning and understandings and promote social justice-oriented actions. Findings: Authors each share from burgeoning narratives to interrelate and show a collection of threads that deepen multiple meanings in our existence. Social implications: If we can assure deep support for all and an ethos of planet and place-caring, stretching beyond the status quo to children and place, then policies and practices can be changed for a greater good. Originality/value: Humbly, we maintain that first, if we listen with children and the more-than-human, they show empathy, creativity and generative learning, and through our diffractive (re)storying process, hope is found, producing actions and movements. |
| Abstractor: |
As Provided |
| Entry Date: |
2026 |
| Accession Number: |
EJ1507954 |
| Database: |
ERIC |