Visual Methodologies and Digital Tools for Researching with Young Children: Transforming Visuality (International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development Book 10)

"This book makes an original contribution to researching child-community development so that those with specific interests in early childhood education have new theoretical tools to guide their research practices. The book explicitly theorises the use of digital visual tools from a cultural-historical perspective. It also draws upon a range of post-structuralist concepts for moving research and scholarship forward. Examples of visual technologies from research in different cultural communities are foregrounded. In particular this book introduces contemporary methodologies for researching child and community development with a focus on visual methodology so the dynamics of development can be captured over time and analysed historically, culturally, socially, ecologically and psychologically through a range of iterative techniques. Visual technology was not freely available in Vygotsky's time for example, and therefore potentially represents an extension of his genetic experimental approach to researching child development. The book presents a range of methodological arguments about research into child and community development through which new conceptions for research centred on young children have been created. The authors of the chapters also discuss why a more holistic, dynamic and ethical view of research is needed for generating new knowledge about child development in a range of cultural contexts."--Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages i-vi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 A Digital Turn: Post-developmental Methodologies for Researching with Young Children....Pages 3-11 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 Beyond Developmental Geology: A Cultural-Historical Theorization of Digital Visual Technologies for Studying Young Children’s Development....Pages 15-34 A Visual Dialectical Methodology: Using a Cultural-Historical Analysis to Unearth the Family Strategies in Children’s Bilingual Heritage Language Development....Pages 35-53 The Past-Present Dialectic: A New Methodological Tool for Seeing the Historical Dynamic in Cultural-Historical Research....Pages 55-72 Intergenerational Family Dialogues: A Cultural Historical Tool Involving Family Members as Co-researchers Working with Visual Data....Pages 73-88 A Cultural-Historical Framework for “Everyday” Research: Theorizing Development Through Visual Imagery and Dialogue....Pages 89-110 A Visual and Tactile Path: Affective Positioning of Researcher Using a Cultural-Historical Visual Methodology....Pages 111-128 Refocusing the Lens on Development: Towards Genetic Research Methodology....Pages 129-149 Front Matter....Pages 151-151 Beyond Alienation: Unpacking the Methodological Issues in Visual Research with Children....Pages 153-168 ‘Baby Cam’ and Participatory Research with Infants: A Case Study of Critical Reflexivity....Pages 169-191 Ethics in Researching Young Children’s Play in Preschool....Pages 193-212 Front Matter....Pages 213-213 Method, Methodology and Methodological Thinking....Pages 215-228 Back Matter....Pages 229-238