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Storying Hopeful Resistances to Datafication: Cracks, Spacetimematterings and Figurations of Agency within the More-than-Human Ecologies of Early Childhood Education and Care

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Title: Storying Hopeful Resistances to Datafication: Cracks, Spacetimematterings and Figurations of Agency within the More-than-Human Ecologies of Early Childhood Education and Care
Language: English
Authors: Jo Albin-Clark (ORCID 0000-0002-6247-8363), Nathan Archer (ORCID 0000-0003-4365-4349), Liz Chesworth (ORCID 0000-0003-0576-0650)
Source: Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. 2024 25(3):347-364.
Availability: SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://sagepub.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 18
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
Descriptors: Data Use, Resistance to Change, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Professional Autonomy, Personal Autonomy, Early Childhood Teachers, Humanism, Ecology, Theory Practice Relationship
DOI: 10.1177/14639491241267947
ISSN: 1463-9491
Abstract: In this paper, we ponder the ecologies of spacetimematterings folded into resistance practices and their relationality with figurations of agency outside and beyond datafication agendas. Accountability cultures bound up with datafication have consequences that include a diminished agency for both children and educators. We take inspiration from the idea that enactments of resistance can cause cracks to appear that forge creative spaces where different kinds of doings related to agency emerge. The context, potentiality and storyings of cracking encounters is where our interest lies. To ponder crackings, we play with feminist posthuman and materialist theorising with research-creation approaches to notice resistances as material-discursive intra-actions amongst the lively materiality of educational life. From there we notice resistance practices as ecologies. Those ecologies are complex and lively yet often concealed in more-than-human cracks by the grand narrative of datafication. Through storytelling, we reimagine these cracks as dynamic resistances, often unresolving the relationality between power and the collective more-than-human modes of resistance we witnessed. Different kinds of noticing mattered and amplifying the sharing of resistance stories brings attention to hopeful agencies already and always at work. Sharing stories can strengthen the connectivity of resistances to datafication and build a stronger autonomy and agency for early childhood education and care. Our provocation is to pay attention to the spacetimematterings of ecologies where resistance practices are already at work cracking cracks for different doings. From there, further activisms can mobilise a larger fracturing to the dominance of datafication narratives.
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