Education Publications
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2013
URL with Digital Object Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137346889_2
Abstract
This chapter provides a challenge to positivist notions of partnership in early childhood education, and instead proposes a re-generative posthumanist perspective, based on relationality of partnerships. Specifically, the chapter addresses the troubles and struggles inherited in research partnerships through a non-idealized vision of research partnerships. It experiments with the notions of regenerating ‘change’ and regenerating ‘relationality’. It also addresses the multi-layered aspects of knowledge-in-the-making; non-innocent relations; difficulties of thinking change in research; and the potentialities of conflict and dissension. However, no certainties and closures about research partnerships are provided.
Citation of this paper:
Pacini-Ketchabaw V., Nxumalo F. (2013) Re-generating Research Partnerships in Early Childhood Education: A Non-idealized Vision. In: Duncan J., Conner L. (eds) Research Partnerships in Early Childhood Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York
