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Making Odd Kin

Making Odd Kin

By: matthew maxwell
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Making Odd Kin is a research and development pilot project that takes a novel approach to re-thinking relationships to the environment by investigating how important multispecies flourishing is to all of us. Underpinned by philosophically-informed childhood research, the project involves working in close partnership with teachers by tapping into work already underway in Reception classes.


The arts-based processes involved in the project recognise the capacities that children have to tell fresh and insightful stories. The project will culminate in the production of a children’s picturebook, created with local children

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Episodes
  • Cicada: unfounded fears for the innocence of childhood

    Cicada: unfounded fears for the innocence of childhood
    Nov 15 2024

    Cicada (Tan, 2018) tells the story of a hardworking cicada trapped in a human world. Teachers at one of the participating schools were uncomfortable with some of the implicit themes. In this conversation, we discuss why that should be, and what it says about our fears for the innocence of children.
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    24 mins
  • Don't Lick This Book: Small Things make a Big Difference

    Don't Lick This Book: Small Things make a Big Difference
    Oct 21 2024

    Professor Jayne, Doctor Quack, and Muttley discuss microbes in general, and Corona virus in particular, have impacted the minds and educational conditions of 4-year-olds.

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    26 mins
  • Superworm: from disinterest and distrust to adulation and respect.

    Superworm: from disinterest and distrust to adulation and respect.
    Oct 3 2024

    Reconsidering tiny critters away from anthropomorphic frameworks, and taking seriously their vital contributions to world-making. We discuss the importance of making visible the imperative for adults to unlearn and relearn, taking their lead from children and attuning to the generative potentials that surface when hierarchies (human and non-human) are dismantled.
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    26 mins
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