Abstract

In a two-year study of preschoolers’ experiences in a nature-based program in Canada (Forest School), we employed the use of GoPro cameras worn by the children to help explore the ‘lived realities’ and experiences that unfolded within the forest. As researchers we wanted to be ‘beside’ children and fully explore the forest from their point of view. The ‘agentic child’ was visualized through this lens both figuratively and literally, adding new insights into the research queries and children’s sociomaterial entanglements (Lenz Taguchi, 2010). As researchers and scholars we can help “disrupt the anthro-, socio-, and logocentric readings” of data by embracing methods that utilize 21st Century digital technologies, and revisiting the storied understandings of child-matter social, material, and discursive encounters.