Laura Trafí-Prats is Senior Lecturer at the School of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), and former Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is a member of the Children and Childhood Research Group at MMU. Her research and pedagogy connects arts, childhood, place and materiality with an interest for experimental and creative approaches that decenter and decolonise the study of childhood and young people. Her work has been published in journals like Studies in Art Education, Qualitative Inquiry, Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, and Genealogy. She has contributed with authored chapters to numerous edited volumes, including Postdevelopmental approaches to Childhood Art, and Communities of Practice: Art, Play and Aesthetics in Early Childhood.Christopher Schulte is an Endowed Associate Professor of Art Education in the School of Art at the University of Arkansas, where he also serves as Director of the Center for the Study of Childhood Art. Informed by new materialist, new empiricist, and posthumanist approaches, his scholarship, teaching, and community engagement focus on the artistic, play-based and aesthetic practices of young children, particularly critical orientations to the study of childhood drawing. His research has appeared in handbooks and other edited volumes, as well as numerous national and international peer-reviewed journals. He is co-editor of Visual Art With Young Children: Practice, Pedagogy, Learning, editor of Ethics and Research with Young Children: New Perspectives, and co-editor of Communities of Practice: Art, Play, and Aesthetics in Early Childhood.

• 1. On children’s and students’ drawing practices in pedagogic work; Dennis Atkinson.- 2. “There you go, bear”: Drawing as poiesis and performance; Christine Marmé Thompson.- 3. Re-Situating Childhood Drawing: A Place-Stories Approach; Christopher Schulte.- 4. The movement of thought in children’s drawings: A post-developmental re-examination of the sensorio-motor dimension; Laura Trafí-Prats.- Visual Essay 1: ‘Strawing’ - Spatial Scribbling; Lucy Hill & Alice Lyons.- Visual Essay 2: [TBA]; Alessandro Lumare and Simona Lobefaro.- Visual Essay 3: City as a Soundscape; Catherine Clements and Dan Wheatley.- Visual Essay 4: [TBA]; Marissa MacLure.- Epilogue; Jayne Osgood.

Laura Trafí-Prats is Senior Lecturer at the School of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), and former Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is a member of the Children and Childhood Research Group at MMU. Her research and pedagogy connects arts, childhood, place and materiality with an interest for experimental and creative approaches that decenter and decolonise the study of childhood and young people. Her work has been published in journals like Studies in Art Education, Qualitative Inquiry, Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, and Genealogy. She has contributed with authored chapters to numerous edited volumes, including Postdevelopmental approaches to Childhood Art, and Communities of Practice: Art, Play and Aesthetics in Early Childhood.Christopher Schulte is an Endowed Associate Professor of Art Education in the School of Art at the University of Arkansas, where he also serves as Director of the Center for the Study of Childhood Art. Informed by new materialist, new empiricist, and posthumanist approaches, his scholarship, teaching, and community engagement focus on the artistic, play-based and aesthetic practices of young children, particularly critical orientations to the study of childhood drawing. His research has appeared in handbooks and other edited volumes, as well as numerous national and international peer-reviewed journals. He is co-editor of Visual Art With Young Children: Practice, Pedagogy, Learning, editor of Ethics and Research with Young Children: New Perspectives, and co-editor of Communities of Practice: Art, Play, and Aesthetics in Early Childhood.

• 1. On children’s and students’ drawing practices in pedagogic work; Dennis Atkinson.- 2. “There you go, bear”: Drawing as poiesis and performance; Christine Marmé Thompson.- 3. Re-Situating Childhood Drawing: A Place-Stories Approach; Christopher Schulte.- 4. The movement of thought in children’s drawings: A post-developmental re-examination of the sensorio-motor dimension; Laura Trafí-Prats.- Visual Essay 1: ‘Strawing’ - Spatial Scribbling; Lucy Hill & Alice Lyons.- Visual Essay 2: [TBA]; Alessandro Lumare and Simona Lobefaro.- Visual Essay 3: City as a Soundscape; Catherine Clements and Dan Wheatley.- Visual Essay 4: [TBA]; Marissa MacLure.- Epilogue; Jayne Osgood.

Laura Trafí-Prats is Senior Lecturer at the School of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), and former Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is a member of the Children and Childhood Research Group at MMU. Her research and pedagogy connects arts, childhood, place and materiality with an interest for experimental and creative approaches that decenter and decolonise the study of childhood and young people. Her work has been published in journals like Studies in Art Education, Qualitative Inquiry, Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, and Genealogy. She has contributed with authored chapters to numerous edited volumes, including Postdevelopmental approaches to Childhood Art, and Communities of Practice: Art, Play and Aesthetics in Early Childhood.Christopher Schulte is an Endowed Associate Professor of Art Education in the School of Art at the University of Arkansas, where he also serves as Director of the Center for the Study of Childhood Art. Informed by new materialist, new empiricist, and posthumanist approaches, his scholarship, teaching, and community engagement focus on the artistic, play-based and aesthetic practices of young children, particularly critical orientations to the study of childhood drawing. His research has appeared in handbooks and other edited volumes, as well as numerous national and international peer-reviewed journals. He is co-editor of Visual Art With Young Children: Practice, Pedagogy, Learning, editor of Ethics and Research with Young Children: New Perspectives, and co-editor of Communities of Practice: Art, Play, and Aesthetics in Early Childhood.

• 1. On children’s and students’ drawing practices in pedagogic work; Dennis Atkinson.- 2. “There you go, bear”: Drawing as poiesis and performance; Christine Marmé Thompson.- 3. Re-Situating Childhood Drawing: A Place-Stories Approach; Christopher Schulte.- 4. The movement of thought in children’s drawings: A post-developmental re-examination of the sensorio-motor dimension; Laura Trafí-Prats.- Visual Essay 1: ‘Strawing’ - Spatial Scribbling; Lucy Hill & Alice Lyons.- Visual Essay 2: [TBA]; Alessandro Lumare and Simona Lobefaro.- Visual Essay 3: City as a Soundscape; Catherine Clements and Dan Wheatley.- Visual Essay 4: [TBA]; Marissa MacLure.- Epilogue; Jayne Osgood.