Embodying the least?adult role

The aim of this article is to emphasise physicality and embodiment in child-centred research, fieldwork intellectual activity. It will argue that research not a separate form action, placing the researcher position epistemological privilege, but an embodied capacity developed through practical This be explored examination ‘least-adult’ positionality. Drawing from large ethnographic study primary schools Dublin, Ireland, contends body must put at centre process. I introduce conceptualisation ‘passive’ ‘active’ body, as key components for relational context fieldwork. Moreover, engagement with phenomenology, it argued here knowledge production sensuous relationship field.