SoE Voices: Un/making sound in early childhood

Dr Alejandra Pacheco-Costa &  Dr Fernando Guzmán-Simón (University of Seville)

For some years now we have been researching on early childhood literacy practices in the school. Sound has become a key aspect in our understanding of children’s meaning making and the subtle ways in which sound creates spaces, following Karen Barad’s new-materialist thinking. In this seminar we go back to some events taking place in/around schools and put the lens in how paying attention to sound enables us to reconsider certain assumptions about meaning, spaces and matter. We invite the attendants to diffract with us the multiplicity of sound in early childhood education.

The first hour will consist of a more convention seminar, with the last 30 minutes giving attendees the chance to explore or discuss some of their own data in relation to Barad's concepts.
 

Biography

Alejandra Pacheco-Costa is a senior lecturer in the Arts Education Department at the University of Seville (Spain). Her research interests are informal practices in music education, music and sound in multimodal literacy, and music, sound and literacy from a posthuman and postqualitative lens. She is part of current research projects focused on multimodal literacies in which literacy events are entangled with matter, sound, affect and agency.

Fernando Guzmán-Simón obtained his PhD. in Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Seville (Spain), where he is a senior lecturer in the Department of Language Education. He has published several research articles on the assessment of academic writing in Spanish, as well as literacy practices in early childhood and primary education. At present, his research is framed in a broader project focused on the development of multimodal literacy in childhood from a posthuman and postqualitative approach. This project aims to analyze the literacy events of students and their families, and how they create mattering through social interaction.