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ERIC Number: EJ1484336
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 19
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1350-293X
EISSN: EISSN-1752-1807
Available Date: 0000-00-00
'What Action Did You See Me Do?': Proposing a Methodology of Choreographed Visual Montage When Re-Turning to Interview Research Data
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, v33 n5 p850-868 2025
This paper offers a creative methodology for co-creating and analysing data when conducting research with children, families and practitioners in the early years. Instead of relying heavily on either adult observation or language when, for example, interviewing children, we propose the method of choreographed visual montage. We show the novelty and practical applicability of our posthumanist experimentation with visual and digital research methods through an example from an international research project on digital play and well-being in South Africa. In much detail, we explore the response of "seven-year-old" Dan to our question about how he feels when playing digital games. He answers 'What action did you see me do?' and enacts how he "looks" when playing. Affected by this performance and inspired by Erin Manning's notion of the minor gesture and Karin Barad's agential realism.], we describe how our creative methodology works and why it matters while staying closely with this example. Listening care-fully to his words, but also going "beyond" words, the method does justice to the complexity of reality and the relational encounters in-between family members, researchers and the more-than-human -- an entanglement that is not only discursive (as in multimodal analysis), but, according to Barad, material "and" discursive.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Africa
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Author Affiliations: 1Department of Education, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway; 2Department of Language and Literature Teaching, University of Seville, Seville, Spain; 3Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finnland; 4School of Education, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa