Place-space Methodologies

Drawing from empirical data obtained during extensive research projects, including doctoral study, Place-space Methodologies explores the dynamics of English Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) across diverse settings such as classrooms, gardens, and outdoor spaces.

Nikki Fairchild is an Associate Professor in Creative Methodologies and Education in the School of Education, Languages, and Linguistics, University of Portsmouth. Her research is theoretically informed by critical feminist (new) materialist and posthumanist theory-praxis and has two bifurcations. The first is employing research-creation and creative methodologies to provide different ways to disturb and enact knowledge production. The second focuses on creative ways to activate and entangle relationality with gender, place-spaces, time, temporality, childhoods, and education. She is on the Editorial Boards of Gender and Education, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, and Norland Educare Research Journal.

- Entry point - Theoretical Underpinning - Place-space methodologies - Mats - Tables - Doors - Alcoves, window ledges and crevices - ECEC Gardens - Forest, beaches and wild spaces - Exit point