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Introduction: Toward a Material Study of Childhood. Part I. Body, embodiment, and materiality. 1. Becoming unruly? Bodies and materials in a primary classroom. 2. Embodying discipline: Remembering bodies and cultural values in Chinese kindergartens. 3. From `Drilling to `Thrilling: French Toilet Training Literature and the Childs Body. Part II Materiality in/as relations. 4. Connected play as intra-action: Doing CupSong with YouTube. 5. The web service Wilma as an actant in school life student perspective. 6. Schoolbags and schoolchildren between school and family. 7. Thrown into and out of togetherness childrens experiences of living apart from, with and in multi-local families. Part III Space, environment and materiality. 8. Affordances for childrens playfulness as they walk through urban spaces. 9. Journeys through space: The interplay of mobility, materiality and social life in early childhood centres. 10. Young childrens participation as a living practice: the role of material and emotional relations during the transition to primary school. 11. `(Do not) touch. `(Do not) run. On Bodies Plasticities: Curation and Exhibition Design with/for Children in Art Museums. Conclusion.
