Beyond anthropocentric boundaries, childing as an embodied kind of praxis: a conversation with Jayne Osgood and Sid Mohandas
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Osgood, J., Mohandas, S., Forte, M. and Barreiro, J. 2025. Beyond anthropocentric boundaries, childing as an embodied kind of praxis: a conversation with Jayne Osgood and Sid Mohandas. Matter: A Journal of New Materialist Research. 10, pp. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1344/jnmr.v10i.50503
| Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Title | Beyond anthropocentric boundaries, childing as an embodied kind of praxis: a conversation with Jayne Osgood and Sid Mohandas |
| Authors | Osgood, J., Mohandas, S., Forte, M. and Barreiro, J. |
| Abstract | This intra-view explores the idea of "childing" as an embodied, relational kind of praxis that challenges colonial and anthropocentric frameworks in education. The authors discuss how childing disrupts linear notions of time, hierarchies of knowledge, and conventional adult-child binaries by focusing on sensibilities and relationalities. Grounded in critical posthumanist theories and thinking with Indigenous perspectives, childing invites disruption, care, re-membering, and re-turning to land and more-than-human relations, fostering experiential and inclusive ways of being, doing and knowing. The conversation highlights how embracing childing can unsettle colonial influences, and open new spaces for learning across early childhood to higher education contexts. |
| Keywords | Critical posthumanism; decolonial praxis; childing; early childhood studies; Indigenous perspectives |
| Sustainable Development Goals | 10 Reduced inequalities |
| 13 Climate action | |
| 4 Quality education | |
| 5 Gender equality | |
| Middlesex University Theme | Creativity, Culture & Enterprise |
| Sustainability | |
| Research Group | Centre for Education Research and Scholarship (CERS) |
| Publisher | University of Barcelona |
| Journal | Matter: A Journal of New Materialist Research |
| ISSN | 2604-7551 |
| Publication dates | |
| Online | 30 May 2025 |
| 30 May 2025 | |
| Publication process dates | |
| Submitted | May 2025 |
| Accepted | 05 May 2025 |
| Deposited | 04 Jun 2025 |
| Output status | Published |
| Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
| Copyright Statement | The texts published in this journal are – unless otherwise indicated – covered by the Creative Commons Spain Attribution 4.0 International licence. The full text of the licence can be consulted here:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1344/jnmr.v10i.50503 |
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