Emergent knowing through encounters between one-year-old infants and paper in free play

Key Points

• The aim is to investigate the emergent knowledge generated through infants' encounters with paper in a free play setting.
• Data collected from 10 one-year-old infants in a preschool from March to September 2025.
• Analysis of video recordings, photographs, field notes, and researchers' reflective journals.
• Interpretive tools included concepts from Deleuze and Guattari, focusing on relationality and material engagement.
• Infants' interactions with paper went beyond simple exploration, resulting in relational and experiential knowledge.
• The relationship between infants and paper involved physical and sensory coordination, responding to texture, sound, and physical alterations.
• Knowledge is created relationally, not just cognitively, emphasizing the entanglement of infants, material, and environment.

Abstract