Animal Magic, Secret Spells, and Green Power: More-Than-Human Assemblages of Children's Storytelling

Murphy, Angela Molloy

doi:10.15760/etd.7318

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“…Humans connect with the more-than-human world through gestures and movements to dynamically unfold meaningful actions (Goodwin, 2015) and to understand emotional experiences of selves and others (Merleau-Ponty, 1945/2012Vagle, 2018). More-thanhuman (Abram, 1996) is a posthuman term used to convey that more is happening beyond the human social realm (Murphy, 2020). Children communicate in various rhythmic and embodied ways of thinking and feeling that extend beyond words (Alcock, 2016).…”

Section: Conceptualising the Notions Of Affects And Embodimentmentioning

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Re-defining silence in unvoiced dialogues in storying-play: The sound of affects

Gaffney

Sansom

et al. 2023

J Child Edu Soc

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This article chronicles three stories selected from a post-intentional phenomenological study conducted by the first author. The authors aim to investigate affective connections in children’s silent play by addressing three research questions: (a) How do children engage in dialogue with the teacher, their peers, and the material environment without words? (b) What emotions are produced in silent play? and (c) What changes in children’s affective connections occur through silence? We drew on the notion of intentionality in post-intentional phenomenology to illuminate meanings of the phenomenon for individuals about what they felt and experienced. With a focus on intentionality, we delved into the ways children meaningfully communicated with others and connected to the environment in their unspeaking moments. We also took on a posthuman notion of intra-actions to rethink silence as an inaudible yet sensible sound communicated between children and things. The prior studies showed that children’s silence was a mode of expression. Through storying the silent play-stories, we offered two alternative meanings of silence––intra-active communication with people and things and inaudible inner wellbeing, in addition to a mode of nonverbal expression as identified in prior studies. The findings are significant in enriching and renewing our understanding of children’s silence in inclusive ECE environments. Silence is re-defined as a mode of embodied communication and affective connections. This article invites researchers and educators to genuinely “listen” to children’s stories, even in silent play.

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Section: Conceptualising the Notions Of Affects And Embodimentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-defining silence in unvoiced dialogues in storying-play: The sound of affects

Gaffney

Sansom

et al. 2023

J Child Edu Soc

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The grass is moving but there is no wind: Common worlding with elf/child relations

Murphy

2021

Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy

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Pedagogies of liberation in early childhood: diffractive documentation practices on more-than-human and human movements

Parnell,

Molloy Murphy,

Quintero

et al. 2024

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PurposeThis 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/approachOur 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.FindingsAuthors each share from burgeoning narratives to interrelate and show a collection of threads that deepen multiple meanings in our existence.Social implicationsIf 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/valueHumbly, 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.

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Animal Magic, Secret Spells, and Green Power: More-Than-Human Assemblages of Children's Storytelling

Cited by 4 publications

References 131 publications

Re-defining silence in unvoiced dialogues in storying-play: The sound of affects

Re-defining silence in unvoiced dialogues in storying-play: The sound of affects

The grass is moving but there is no wind: Common worlding with elf/child relations

Pedagogies of liberation in early childhood: diffractive documentation practices on more-than-human and human movements

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