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Abstract
Through multimodal retellings of kindergarten children’s performances of “baby,” this article aims to contribute to the emerging “posthuman conversation” within early childhood studies. Specifically, this work makes moves toward reconceptualizing children’s becomings within educational contexts by, first, interrogating the ways in which adult notions of “time” came to bear upon children’s enactments of “babies” within classroom pretend play performances and, second, exploring how posthuman conceptions of temporality—specifically Pickering’s “mangle”—can disrupt developmental analyses of children’s (un)timely performances and accommodate a more nuanced version of childhood becoming(s).
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Author biography
Casey Y Myers is assistant professor of Early Childhood Education and the coordinator of Studio and Research Arts at the Child Development Center, an early years laboratory school on the campus of Kent State University. Her research and teaching interests revolve around the everyday materialities of young children’s school lives.
