Abstract:
Infantologies is a collective writing project designed to express and
summarise important ideas, approaches and forms of advocacy in a
short and condensed method, in order to present a network of diverse
themes, arguments and evidence concerning infants.This is a collective
writing project invited fifteen scholars to participate by writing 500
words with maximum of 5 references in a short period of time (normally
a couple of weeks). It is a kind of clearing house for dominant statements
about the importance of the world of infants, their evolving
minds, and physical and social bodies, and the crucial impact of parental,
family, cultural, social and physical environments. This writing proQ3
ject follows the methodology of Collective writing (Peters, 2016) and
builds on recent EPAT Collective writing projects (Peters, 2020). Jayne
White curated the section ‘Infant Theories for Contemporary Times’ and
Marek Tesar curated ‘Pedagogical Frameworks’. Other collective writing
projects that resonate with infantologies will follow, including Infanstasies and Infanticides.