Postdevelopmental Approaches to Digital Arts in Childhood

Marissa McClure Sweeny is committed to reconceptualizing images of historically marginalized groups including young children and to centering difference through collaborative scholarship, pedagogy and mentoring, and multimedia art making. Postdevelopmental and posthuman theories, feminist theories, and multiliteracies guide her work in community-based early childhood education, and curriculum inquiry and design. She currently serves as Professor and Program Director of Early Childhood Education at Carlow University, USA. In 2017, she founded SQUAD Art Studio, an alternative, inclusive, community-based program dedicated to negotiated arts experiences with young children, caregivers, and preservice educators and The Scribble Squad, an international research and peer mentoring collaborative for caregivers of young children and academic motherscholars. She is widely published internationally in books, journals, and other venues, and uses her role as an editor and mentor to create new spaces for publication that amplify marginalized voices. She is an inaugural Editor of Childhood Art: An International Journal of Research.

Mona Sakr is Associate Professor of Early Childhood at Middlesex University, UK.