Encounters with Materials in Early Childhood Education (Paperback)

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