ABSTRACT
This chapter re/looks at video data from a university-based toddler classroom in the US to invite new possibilities of seeing young children’s participation with/in the daily lunchtime routine. Focusing in on the intra-actions of children’s bodies and chairs, amid the mealtime milieu of dishes, foods, lunchboxes, discourses, adult and child bodies, rules, expectations, routines, and so on, this work engages new materialist theories, seeking to make sense of what these entangled material-discursive events produce. It is proposed that a pedagogy invoking new materialisms disrupts traditional notions of the disciplined classroom body while simultaneously expanding our understandings of the relations among children and the furniture made for them.
