Infants in family day care: Stories of smooth and striated space

摘要: Family day care (FDC) is child for a small group of children that occurs in the educator's home. Despite important role it plays international early childhood education and landscape, particularly under three years age, FDC currently under-researched. This article examines research about infants (under 19 months age) from past 20 years, using Deleuze Guattari's concepts smooth striated space. These open possibilities moving beyond well-worn binaries such as qualitative/quantitative, researcher/researched, adult/infant instead consider methodological principles theoretical perspectives influence why particular methods are chosen, how they used, stories result. The authors argue emerging space may be conceptualised space, with greater powers deterritorialisation than striated, affording lines flight towards new understandings lives ...