Posthuman research playspaces: Climate child imaginaries

Climate child imaginaries explores the need for new climate change education that responds to children's rapidly changing socioecological worlds. It connects climate change education with posthumanist studies of childhood and offers opportunities for collaborative art, inquiry, and learning with children. The book develops new concepts and methods of creative inquiry that situate children's learning, aesthetic production, and theory-building within a more-than-human ecology of experience.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 172 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Posthuman research playspaces: Climate child imaginaries is a groundbreaking work that addresses the urgent need for new and innovative forms of climate change education that are responsive to the rapidly evolving material conditions of children's socioecological worlds. This comprehensive book provides a deep understanding of how posthumanist concepts and methods can be creatively developed and deployed in collaboration with children and young people. By connecting climate change education with posthumanist studies of childhood in the social sciences and environmental humanities, the book offers a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities posed by climate change.

Furthermore, it provides readers with valuable opportunities to engage with new theoretical and methodological approaches for collaborative art, inquiry, and learning with children. Drawing on three years of participatory research conducted with 135 children in the Climate Change and Me (CC+Me) project, the book takes children's creative and affective responses to climate change as the starting point for the co-production of knowledge, community engagement, and the transformation of pedagogy and curriculum in schools.

Through a thoughtful exploration of process philosophy, particularly the works of Whitehead and Deleuze, the book develops innovative concepts and methods of creative inquiry that place children's learning, aesthetic production, and theory-building within a more-than-human ecology of experience. The book presents a series of generative openings and propositions for future research in the field of climate change education, while also offering wide-ranging applications for graduate students and researchers in childhood and youth studies, the environmental arts and humanities, cultural studies of science and technology, educational philosophy, and environmental education.

In conclusion, Posthuman research playspaces: Climate child imaginaries is a transformative work that offers a fresh and exciting perspective on climate change education. By embracing posthumanist concepts and methods, the book empowers children and young people to become active contributors to the global conversation on climate change. It provides valuable insights for educators, policymakers, and researchers alike, and holds the promise of creating more inclusive and sustainable learning environments for future generations.

Weight: 296g
Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032372389