Abstract
Working firstly with my own children, and hopefully in future together with a nursery.
Making mobile phone videos including slow motion to picture early years ages 3-5 physics experiments devised by children. For example throwing things, breaking things, blowing bubbles, seeing how things behave when pushed, bent, moulded, momentum, centrifugal forces ect.
Preliminary films with my own children have gone well.
Prior to ethics application and developing accademic and external partnerships for the major part of the project.
The research question:
How can we make mobile phone videos to describe how young children produce knowledge about physics?
Sub questions, and associated questions:
What can we learn about knowledge produced in relation with materials and environments?(Ingold, T. 2023)
What is the relationship between knowledge in the act and abstract knowledge produced as stories of logical reasoning? (hypothesis testing, reasoning)
Can participatory mobile phone videos made with and by children become part of collaborative artworks exploring the nature of knowledge production through practical experimentation?
The method would be through arts practice as research. Children will be involved in making the videos, and viewing them back, including viewing back their experiments in slow motion. The completed art work which may take the form of video installation would be made for the children's centre.
Participants: The project will involve working in an early years learning setting to with children aged 3-5 years old. This may be St Pauls Childrens Centre Bristol and Windmill Hill City Farm Forest School.
Possible collaborators to approach: education departments at Jane Andrews (UWE,) UoP, and the University of Bristol. Possible other specialists such as John Potter (UCL)
Outcomes: artworks / film, written papers for education journals as well participatory media arts, philosophy of practice and knowledge.
Making mobile phone videos including slow motion to picture early years ages 3-5 physics experiments devised by children. For example throwing things, breaking things, blowing bubbles, seeing how things behave when pushed, bent, moulded, momentum, centrifugal forces ect.
Preliminary films with my own children have gone well.
Prior to ethics application and developing accademic and external partnerships for the major part of the project.
The research question:
How can we make mobile phone videos to describe how young children produce knowledge about physics?
Sub questions, and associated questions:
What can we learn about knowledge produced in relation with materials and environments?(Ingold, T. 2023)
What is the relationship between knowledge in the act and abstract knowledge produced as stories of logical reasoning? (hypothesis testing, reasoning)
Can participatory mobile phone videos made with and by children become part of collaborative artworks exploring the nature of knowledge production through practical experimentation?
The method would be through arts practice as research. Children will be involved in making the videos, and viewing them back, including viewing back their experiments in slow motion. The completed art work which may take the form of video installation would be made for the children's centre.
Participants: The project will involve working in an early years learning setting to with children aged 3-5 years old. This may be St Pauls Childrens Centre Bristol and Windmill Hill City Farm Forest School.
Possible collaborators to approach: education departments at Jane Andrews (UWE,) UoP, and the University of Bristol. Possible other specialists such as John Potter (UCL)
Outcomes: artworks / film, written papers for education journals as well participatory media arts, philosophy of practice and knowledge.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | In preparation - 2026 |