Listening to Children’s Voices as a Socially Engaged Practice

Abstract

Introduction In this article, I introduce a series of socially engaged practices I conducted between April 2019 and August 2020. This studio project began with a research interest related to my expertise in early childhood education. I have been a kindergarten practitioner, teacher trainer, and researcher in Hong Kong for many years. In this project, titled Project Superhero, children made meaning and projected their wishes through pretend play as superheroes. Their superhero gadgets were semiotic resources helping to reveal the children’s thoughts and feelings toward their school lives. These practices aimed to embrace the power of children’s voices through art-led participatory processes.