Dr David Ben Shannon
PhD, MA, PGCE, BA (hons)
School of Education
Lecturer in Education
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Full contact details
School of Education
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
- Profile
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I am an interdisciplinary scholar, whose research intersects with critical disability studies, early childhood education, cultural studies, and art. With a background in primary special education, my research explores how neurodiversity unfolds in early childhood education through an attention to affect, place, early literacy and language, and the more-than-human. Methodologically, I experiment with sensory ethnography, sound, research-creation, and digital ethnography. I am also a sound artist and composer, and one-half of glitch-folk, electronica duo Oblique Curiosities.
My recent work has been published in Qualitative Inquiry, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, and the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.
- Research interests
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affect; autism; neurodiversity; queer studies; early childhood education; literacy; language; sensory ethnography; arts-based methods; research-creation; research mobilities; posthuman and socio-material theories of learning.
- Publications
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Books
- Research Mobilities in Primary Literacy Education Interrogating How Teachers Encounter Research in An Age of Evidence-Based Teaching. Routledge.
Journal articles
- The entanglement of language and place in early childhood: a review of the literature. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies. View this article in WRRO
- Perversity, precarity, and anxiety: tracing a ‘more precise typology’ of the affect of neuroqueer failure in an in-school research-creation project. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 37(3), 676-690. View this article in WRRO
- Cosmic beavers. Angelaki, 28(6), 84-96. View this article in WRRO
- Opaque reciprocity: or theorising Glissant’s ‘right to opacity’ as a communication and language praxis in early childhood education. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 45(1), 118-130. View this article in WRRO
- “Trajectories matter”: affect, neuroqueerness, and music research-creation in an early childhood classroom. Qualitative Inquiry, 29(1), 200-211. View this article in WRRO
- A/autisms:: a “queer labor of the incommensurate”: holding onto the friction between different orientations towards autism in an early childhood research-creation project. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. View this article in WRRO
- What do ‘propositions’ do for research-creation? Truth and modality in Whitehead and Wittgenstein. Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research, 4(4). View this article in WRRO
- Neuroqueer(ing) noise: beyond ‘mere inclusion’ in a neurodiverse early childhood classroom. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 9(5), 489-514. View this article in WRRO
- Problematizing sound methods through music research-creation: oblique curiosities. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19. View this article in WRRO
- ‘What could be feminist about sound studies?’: (in)audibility in young children’s soundwalking. Journal of Public Pedagogies(4). View this article in WRRO
- Queer sonic cultures: an affective walking-composing project. Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry, 1(3), 58-77. View this article in WRRO
Reports
- Research Mobilities in Primary Literacy Education Interrogating How Teachers Encounter Research in An Age of Evidence-Based Teaching. Routledge.
- Teaching interests
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disability studies in education; inclusive education; literacy; digital literacy; research methods; queer studies in education