Children studies jako perspektywa metodologiczna. Współczesne tendencje w badaniach nad dzieckiem
Children Studies as a Methodological Perspective: Contemporary Tendencies in Children’s Research

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a reconnaissance of the humanistic origins of postmodern interdisciplinary field called children studies. Szymborska identifies two opposing approaches within the mainstream of children’s research, namely the paedocentric and paedomorphic. The first is associated with the studies of Gertrud Lenzer, Sarane Boockock, William Corsaro, who have spurred on the recent transformation of child activism into children’s activist narratives in the field. Szymborska sees this phenomenon as an attempt to build a ‘child-story,’ i.e. a counter-history from child’s perspective. The second direction is rooted in Tyson Lewis and Richard Kahn’s posthumanist notions, influenced by Rosi Braidotti’s posthumanist theory. This movement proposes a non-anthropocentric, zoomorphic approach to childhood in the context of what is known as exopedagogy. These researchers’ paedomorphic annihilation of conceptual dualisms and of the hierarchy of species represents, for Szymborska, an adultocentric reduction of the child’s subjectivity to its hypostases, which are expressed in discourse through the symbiotic hybrid of the humanimal.

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