Becoming Haunted by a Data-Ghost in Early Childhood Education Documentation Practices

[A Playfully Serious Five-Act Play]

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18733/cpi29648

Abstract

In telling a ghost story, the author notices what (her) ghosts are doing in a study of early childhood education documentation practices; she uses hauntology, affect and sticky data to help her imagine the documentation as ghostly matters.

Author Biography

Jo Albin-Clark, Edge Hill University

Jo Albin-Clark is a Senior Lecturer in Early Education at Edge Hill University. Following a teaching career in nursery and primary schools, Jo has undertaken several roles in teaching, advising, and research in early childhood education. She completed her doctorate at the University of Sheffield in 2019. Her thesis explored documentation practices in early childhood education using posthuman and feminist materialist theories. Her research interests include observation and documentation practices, methodological collaboration, and research creation using a posthuman lenses. A central theme in all her work has been teachers’ embodied experiences of resistance to dominant discourses.

Green and Black Light, a photograph by Chandam Suman

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Published

2022-12-17

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2022): Posthumanism: A Desire for a New Humanity

Section

Articles, Illustrations and Verse