Articulating encounters between children and plastics

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Abstract

In the context of global concerns about plastics, this paper sets out and exemplifies a research agenda for articulating children’s encounters with plastics. The paper analyses data co-produced with 11–15 year-olds through interviews, app-based research and experimental/arts-led workshops. It moves beyond scholarship in health and environmental sciences, and in environmental education research, to outline a far richer range of ways to conceptualise children’s encounters with plastics, based in children’s everyday, embodied and emotive interactions with plastics.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)478-494
Number of pages17
JournalChildhood
Volume29
Issue number4
Early online date15 May 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study is supported by Leverhulme Research Fellowship (grant reference 2018–211; title ‘Plastic Childhoods’), awarded to Peter Kraftl, and we gratefully acknowledge the Leverhulme Trust’s financial support.

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Keywords

  • Environmental education
  • interdisciplinary research
  • popular culture
  • everyday life
  • new materialism
  • posthumanism
  • arts-based methods

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology

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