ABSTRACT

This article explores emerging findings in a sensory ethnography based in a nursery setting where video data has been co-produced with parents, practitioners and 2-year-old children. The project mobilises Froebel’s twin concepts of ‘unfoldment’ and ‘self-activity’, reinstating the importance of the sensory-motor register as a form of knowledge production. It maps some interesting affinities between aspects of Froebel’s thinking and a Deleuzian philosophy of movement and sensation. Focussing on proprioception as the felt-sense of bodies-in-motion, we discuss a video-based methodology that allows us to experiment with new ways of attending to the actions of 2-year-olds. Slowing the speed of video complicates the ocular conceptions of sight often associated with ethnographic observation. We propose instead practices of watching – of attentiveness and kinaesthetic receptiveness, where vision becomes ‘haptic’. We confine ourselves here to video data of jumping bodies, making sense of/with the event of a jump within a philosophy of attention.

摘要

本文探讨了基于托儿所的感官民族志的新发现，其中视频数据是与父母、从业者和 2 岁儿童共同制作的。该项目调动了福禄贝尔的“展开”和“自我活动”的双重概念，恢复了感觉运动记录作为知识生产形式的重要性。它映射了福禄贝尔思想的各个方面与德勒兹运动和感觉哲学之间的一些有趣的相似之处。将本体感觉作为运动中的身体的感觉，我们讨论了一种基于视频的方法，它使我们能够尝试用新的方式来关注 2 岁儿童的动作。放慢视频的速度使通常与人种学观察相关的视觉视觉概念变得复杂。我们建议改为实践观看 - 注意力和动觉接受度，视觉变成“触觉”。我们将自己限制在跳跃身体的视频数据上，在注意力哲学中理解跳跃事件。