ABSTRACT

This study explored nursery practitioners ‘slowed down’ documentary photography in everyday moments. The enquiry draws on Documentary Photography, Visual Sociology and Early Childhood and entails a novel application of the theoretical concept of ‘presence’ (Senge, P., C. O. Scharmer, J. Jaworski, and B. S. Flowers. 2008. Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society. Boston: Nicholas Brealey Publishing.). Naturalistic data collection techniques and thematic analysis were employed. An original application of ‘presence’ supported practitioners’ shared language and discursive resource for visual practice that invited questions; supported children’s sensemaking and mediation of relationships. This new theorisation and application of presence offers a ‘holding space’ for these activities and nuanced seeing anew. This creative disruption is significant in speeded-up educational contexts.

摘要

这项研究探索了幼儿园从业者在日常生活中“放慢”纪实摄影的速度。该调查借鉴了纪实摄影、视觉社会学和幼儿期，并需要对“存在”的理论概念进行新的应用（Senge, P.、CO Scharmer、J. Jaworski 和 BS Flowers。2008 年。存在：探索深刻的变化人、组织和社会. 波士顿：Nicholas Brealey 出版社。）。采用了自然主义的数据收集技术和专题分析。“存在”的原始应用支持从业者的共享语言和视觉实践的话语资源，从而引发问题；支持儿童的意义建构和关系调解。这种在场的新理论和应用为这些活动和细致入微的重新审视提供了一个“保持空间”。这种创造性的破坏在加速教育的背景下意义重大。