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Documenting data-ghosts: Visualising non-human life and death through what is undocumented in early childhood education

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  • Jo Albin-Clark

    (Edge Hill University, UK)

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What happens with ethical response-abilities that linger in early childhood education documentation practices? Thinking-with research-creation, I problematise the human focus of three and four-year old children caring for eggs in a classroom hatchery. Foregrounding non-human life (and death) brings an ethical disquiet that sticks around. Instead, the past-present-future becomes blurred with ghostly matters. What is particularly haunting is the disposability of non-human life after human educational events are over. Haunting data that is not easy to think with and irritates through time is conceptualised as a data-ghost. Through methodological creative experiments inspired by digital visualisations of non-human data-ghosts, I ponder with the minor of what is unthought, half-said and non-documented when chicks are returned to commercial hatcheries. Posthuman praxis leads me to trouble the human-centric focus of documentation practices and wonder what new questions are generated for multi-species flourishing when the foreground slips and flips to the non-human.

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  • Jo Albin-Clark, 2023. "Documenting data-ghosts: Visualising non-human life and death through what is undocumented in early childhood education," Journal of Posthumanism, Transnational Press London, UK, vol. 3(1), pages 59-71, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:mig:jpjrnl:v:3:y:2023:i:1:p:59-71
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v3i1.2851
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