Global as "Brought to Life" in an Australian Preschool

Thursday, March 5, 2015 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Iacocca Hall, B103, MRC
 
Economic globalization and neoliberal policies are transforming the everyday lives of young people. Still, children’s institutional lives are dominantly examined as intimate geographies that take limited consideration of how wider processes, discourses, and institutions shape children’s everydays. In this presentation, by drawing on a ‘flat’ ontology, Dr. Millei considers how young children do not simply know about or respond to global processes in their locales but also how the ‘global’ is ‘brought to life’ in and through the embodied performances of children. I re/present data that was produced in a 16-month long ethnographic project that explored young children’s place-making in a regional community preschool in Australia. In the analysis she  ‘plugs in’  conversational data, observations, photos, videos, theories, ideas, fragments, selves and sensations to ‘think with theory’.  
 
This project was funded by Jean Denton Memorial Fellowship, University of South Australia. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Contact Name: 
Dr. Iveta Silova
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Comparative and International Education program