Watching two-year-olds jump: video method becomes ‘haptic’

This article explores emerging findings in a sensory ethnography based nursery setting where video data has been co-produced with parents, practitioners and 2-year-old children. The project mobilises Froebel’s twin concepts of ‘unfoldment’ ‘self-activity’, reinstating the importance sensory-motor register as form knowledge production. It maps some interesting affinities between aspects thinking Deleuzian philosophy movement sensation. Focussing on proprioception felt-sense bodies motion, we discuss video-based methodology that allows us to experiment new ways attending actions 2-year-olds. Slowing speed complicates ocular conceptions sight often associated ethnographic observation. We propose instead practices watching - attentiveness kinaesthetic receptiveness, vision becomes ‘haptic’. confine ourselves here jumping bodies, making sense of/with event jump within attention.