Children and the Power of Stories

Carmen Blyth completed her Ph.D. in 2015 on Ethics in international schools at the University of Cape Town. She was a postdoctoral research fellow with the Decolonizing Early Childhood Discourses research project at the same university. She has worked with international schools and universities in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East for over 30 years as an EAP/ESL/EAL teacher, teacher trainer, and department founder. She currently enjoys mentoring Ph.D. and IB Diploma candidates and has a special interest in the links between linguistic diversity and biodiversity, and the rights of other language speakers in institutions where English is the medium of instruction.Teresa K. Aslanian completed her Ph.D. in 2019 on the concept of care in Norwegian early childhood education at Olso Metropolitan University. She holds the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Early Childhood Education, University of South-Eastern Norway. Her background as an early childhood educatorinforms her research, which is concerned with holistic learning, play and love as a professional practice in early childhood education.

• Preface.- Storytelling the Multiple Self: Posthuman Autoethnography as Critical Praxis.- Storying into Resistance: The Use of Purposeful Placement Stories.- The Green Foam Ring and the Sleeping Girl Who Wasn’t Tired: A Posthuman Story of Care.- Storying Observations of a Cardboard-book through Sticky Micro-moments, Bag‒Lady‒Carrier‒Bag Practices and Memory Stories.- From Multispecies Tangles and Anthropocene Muddles: What can Lichen Teach Us About Precarity and Indeterminacy in Early Childhood?.- Storyplay Time at School: Neoliberal and Neocolonial Assemblages in Early Childhood Education.- Storying Other th/an/d Neoliberal Criticism‒‘Cause I have a Hunch of Something Being Wrong Here.- Nick-storying and the Body's Immersion and Participating in the World: Forming Aggregates for Early Childhood Education.- Stories, Places: Storied Place and Placed Story.- An Ethics of Flourishing: Storying Our Way Around the Power/Potential Nexus in Early Childhood Education and Care.- Afterword.- Index.