Childhood and Temporalities in Common World Pedagogies
In the 21st century, and at a time of so much loss within ecologies, taking temporal frames seriously in childhood studies means learning to multiply our understandings of time, to pay attention to which times are liveable and which are not, to synchronize ourselves across many and varied temporal horizons, and to expand Cartesian sequential time.
In this presentation, drawing on the work of Deborah Bird Rose, I pay attention to ‘the knots of ethical time’ that bind the world together. Using common worlds frameworks that reposition time as a situated more-than-human concern, I address the pedagogical obligations to recognize the diversity and the entanglement of multiple times in children’s common worlds.