Posthumanist and New Materialist Methodologies / Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories (PDF)

Claudia Diaz-Diaz is a Ph.D. in Educational Studies at The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. Claudia received her Hons. BA in Psychology from the Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile (2001) and her M.Ed. in Early Childhood Education from UBC (2013). Her research interests include neoliberal approaches to educational policy, social pedagogies, childhood studies, and critical place methodologies. She has worked as an educational consultant and manager of poverty-reduction programmes in Chile. She is currently a UBC Public Scholar and a Scholar at the Liu Institute for Global Issues. She received the Janusz Korczak Scholarship for her work on children's rights and the Margaret and Peter Lukasevich Memorial Prize in Early Childhood Education. Claudia is currently a sessional instructor in the Teacher Education Program at UBC.
Paulina Semenec is a Doctoral Candidate in Educational Studies at The University of British Columbia, Canada. Her doctoral dissertation explores the affective and spatial dimensions of social and emotional learning practices in primary school settings. She is interested in post-qualitative and visual research methodologies, as well as critical childhood studies. She has worked as a sessional instructor in the Teacher Education Program at UBC since 2017. She was a recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Scholarship (2016), and the Faculty of Education Endowed Award (2018). She currently works at the Centre for Teaching and Learning, where she is engaged in research on teaching and learning initiatives at The University of British Columbia.