Researching Child-Dog Relationships and Narratives in the Classroom

This interdisciplinary book explores posthuman and psychological approaches to childhood education and wellbeing by examining 'animal-assisted' education, using qualitative approaches to understand the nuanced mechanisms which unfold in child-dog interactions.

Donna Carlyle is Assistant Professor, Post-Doctorate Researcher, and former Specialist Health Visitor and Psychotherapist, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, UK.

Introduction PART I: PRELUDE Chapter 1 Empathic ethnography: A 'body' of evidence in fieldwork as methodological praxis PART II: ENSEMBLE Chapter 2 Ted 'makes it feel like home': Emergent peer-creaturely culture PART III: RITORNELLO Chapter 3 The significance of sensory creaturely comfort in child-dog encounters: Touch in the classroom PART IV: OPUS and FUGUE Chapter 4 Fascinating rhythms: A soundscape and comic book as rhythmic events and choreographies PART V: CADENCE and CODA Chapter 5 Towards a creaturely, loving pedagogy: Ted as 'pedadog' Ostinato