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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Contributors; Chapter 1: Interactions and Learning: Overview and Introduction; What Do We Mean by 'Interactions'?; A Shifting Gaze in the Science of Teaching and Learning; Why Should Those Invested in Early Years Education Pay Attention to Interactions?; This Book's Chapters; References; Chapter 2: A Conceptual Framework for Early Education: What Micro-sociology Can Contribute to a Theoretically and Empirically Well-Founded Didactic in Early Education; Concluding Discussion; References |
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Chapter 3: Sensitive Responsiveness: An Approach to the Analysis and Improvement of Teacher-ƯChild Interactions in Early Childhood Settings Introduction; Theoretical Background; The Concept of Sensitive Responsiveness; Research Methods; Results; Reciprocity of Teacher's Sensitive Responsiveness and Children's Involvement in Interactions; Children Can Influence Teacher's Interaction Behaviour; A Low Level of Sensitive Responsiveness May Turn Children Away; Implications for Early Childhood Education; Questions for Reflection; References |
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Chapter 4: Children's Use of Objects in Their Storytelling Storytelling in the Early Years; Links to ECE Curriculum: Te Whāriki; The Role of Objects in the Early Years; The Research; Storytelling with Objects; Story Shells: Co-producing a Story with Objects as Support; Technology Mediating Storytelling; Discussion; Appendix: CA Transcription Conventions; References; Chapter 5: Young Children's Participation in a New Language Context: A Synthesising Analysis for a Holistic Perspective; Introduction; Young Children's Participation in ECE; Theorising Participation and Learning |
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Empirical Investigation Synthesising Analysis; Findings; Discussion and Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Shaping Gender Relations in Early Childhood Education: Children's Interactions and Learning About Gender; Introduction; Traditional Gender Theories and Early Childhood Education; The Research Project; Counting Boys and Girls; Analysis; Discussion; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: A Dialogic Approach to Understanding Infant Interactions; Introduction; Understanding Interaction as a Dialogic Event; Re-probing Interviews; Coding and Interpreting Interactions |
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An Example of Interaction as an Event-of-Co-Being Implications for Infant Interactions in ECEC; Glossary; References; Chapter 8: Enhancing Interactions: Understanding Family Pedagogy and Funds of Knowledge "on Their Turf"; Introduction; Family and Community as a Key Curriculum Principle; Family Pedagogy; Funds of Knowledge; Home Visits in Early Childhood Education; Research Design and the Home Visit to Zoe's Family; Findings About Family Pedagogy and Funds of Knowledge; After the Home Visit: Enhancing Teacher-Child Interactions at Small Kauri |
| Summary |
This book provides new insights into how interactions in early childhood education are being studied, and into what these studies' findings mean for improving the quality of early childhood education. The editors examine the methods, ethics, practices, and questions arising from such close work with children, families and educators, and have brought together a collection that highlights interactions research and practical implications for early childhood education and research, with the ultimate aim of shaping quality practices. Starting with an overview of interaction research and its pedagogical value in early childhood education the book subsequently introduces new interaction studies in early childhood from Europe and Australasia. Drawing from a range of perspectives and using different conceptual and methodological tools the contributors use their interactions research to comment collectively on process quality in early childhood education, and its relationship to the phenomenon of pedagogical interactions. The work as a whole bridges the gap between practice and research by addressing quality interactions for early learning (for practitioners) and providing researchers valuable information on methods for studying interactions within the everyday contexts of early childhood education |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 16, 2017) |
| Subject |
Early childhood education.
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early childhood education.
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EDUCATION -- Elementary.
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Early childhood education
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gunn, Alexandra C. (Alexandra Claire), editor
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Hruska, Claudia A., editor
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| ISBN |
9789811048791 |
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9811048797 |
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