Postdigital Play and Global Education: Reconfiguring Research is a re-turn to a large-scale, international project on children-s digital play. Adopting postqualitative and posthumanist theories, research practices are reconfigured all the way down from what counts as -data-, -tools-, -instruments-, -transcription-, research sites-, -researchers-, to notions of responsibility and accountability in qualitative research. Through a series of vignettes involving complex human and more-than-human collaborators (e.g., GoPros, octopus, avatars, diaries, sackball, LEGO bricks), the authors challenge who and what can be playful and creative across contexts in the global north and global south. The diffractive methodology enacted interrupts Western developmental notions of agency that are dominant in research involving young children.
The concept of -postdigital- offers fresh opportunities to disrupt dominant understandings of children-s play. Play emerges as an enigmatic and sh
