List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Thinking With Materials
Eventful Material Relations
Materials in Early Childhood
The "Material Encounters in Early Childhood Education" Project
Inquiring into materiality
Experimentation
The arts as mode of inquiry
The studio
Encounters With Materials and the Reggio Emilia projects
Inviting conversations through images
Diffraction as a Mode of Inquiry
Diffracting with concepts
This Book’s Entanglements with Paper, Charcoal, Paint, Clay, and Blocks
Chapter 2. Paper: Movement
Singularity
The Movements of Making
Continuous Motion
Caught in the Currents
Surprise
Movement Across
Paper in its Final Move
Chapter 3. Charcoal: Encounter
To Meet
To Touch
To Attend
To Open
To Respond
Chapter 4. Paint: Assemblage
Improvising
Emerging
Blending and Bleeding
Assembling
Creating
Chapter 5. Clay: Ecologies
Clay in the atrium studio
Clay in the forest
Clay at the river
Meso and Ethoecology
Attachments
It Matters
Fostering and Nourishing
Folding In
Ecologies of Practice
Chapter 6. Blocks: Time
The Weight of Time
Playing with Time
Time as Lived
Time as Intensity
Transitory Spaces
Afterword: Noticing
References
Index
Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw is Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Faculty of Education at Western University, Canada.
Sylvia Kind is Faculty Instructor, Department of Early Childhood Care and Education at Capilano University, Canada, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada.
Laurie L.M. Kocher is Faculty Instructor, Department of Early Childhood Care and Education at Capilano University, Canada.
"Through vivid vignettes and extensive theoretical grounding, readers are challenged to reconsider taken-for-granted assumptions about the role of materials in the early childhood classroom. This groundbreaking, deeply layered book will remain important to me as I revisit and reflect on its ideas, and I highly recommend it as a must-read for educators in the disciplines of both art education and early childhood education."--Pat Tarr, PhD, retired art and early childhood educator, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada"'What if…?' This essential question propels this open-ended exploration of the ways that young children and responsive materials interact in early childhood classrooms. The authors invite us to ponder with them, to notice, to question, in ways that move us beyond the conventions and constraints of traditional practices and provisions for young children. Sometimes startling, always provocative, this text rewards careful and considerate reading, as it reminds us how often we tend to structure even the most 'unstructured' aspects of early childhood curriculum, prohibiting truly productive encounters between children and the 'stuff' that offers unknown possibilities."--Christine Marmé Thompson, Professor of Art Education, Pennsylvania State University, USA
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