Conceptualizations Of Childhood Pedagogy And Educational Research In The Postmodern

Author : Mariam John Meynert
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781443886208

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Conceptualizations of Childhood, Pedagogy and Educational Research in the Postmodern by Mariam John Meynert Pdf

In the last fifty years, a debate between modernism and postmodernism has surfaced within the social sciences. Epistemologically, there has been a shift away from the concept of a “found” world, “out there,” objective, knowable and factual, towards a concept of “constructed” worlds, thus problematizing postulates based upon the autonomous, stable, unified, coherent and integrated subject capable of rational action, and opening up spaces for a new understanding of subjectivity based on provisionality and contingency. From the ashes of these tendencies for fragmentation have arisen the new sociology of childhood and new directions in pedagogy and research, creating spaces for constructing notions of children and childhood. The emergent child has an active agency, allowing the construction of a more dynamic child, located in a multiplicity of domains, opening up spaces for more flexible pedagogies and new sensibilities in educational research. Originating from a critical reading of texts in the area of childhood, pedagogy and educational research within the modern and the postmodern, this book extracts, appropriates and integrates parallel, but socially constructed, discourses across disciplines such as the sociology of childhood, the sociology of knowledge and the sociology of education. The book constructs conceptions of childhood both historically and within the modernist/postmodernist paradigm, and documents the implications of the paradigmatic shift from modernity to postmodernity for the study of childhood, as well as pedagogical practices and educational research.

Author : Gunilla Dahlberg,Peter Moss,Alan R. Pence
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Child care
ISBN : 0750707690

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Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care by Gunilla Dahlberg,Peter Moss,Alan R. Pence Pdf

Working with postmodern ideas, Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care challenges received wisdom and the tendency to reduce philosophical issues of value to purely technical issues of measurement and management. In its place, it offers alternative ways of understanding early childhood, early childhood institutions and pedagogical work. It gives full consideration to the importance of social construction and meaning making, and to documentation and dialogue, The book places issues of early childhood into a global context and relates them to writers from many fields. Drawing on work with aboriginal peoples in Canada, on the experience of Reggio-Emilia in Italy and on a project in Stockholm inspired by Reggio, the book considers the implications of these alternative ways of understanding, for practice and a reconceptualization of early childhood education and care.

Author : Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde,Geert Thyssen,Frederik Herman,Angelo Van Gorp,Pieter Verstraete
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110623451

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Folds of Past, Present and Future by Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde,Geert Thyssen,Frederik Herman,Angelo Van Gorp,Pieter Verstraete Pdf

This volume brings together important theoretical and methodological issues currently being debated in the field of history of education. The contributions shed insightful and critical light on the historiography of education, on issues of de-/colonization, on the historical development of the educational sciences and on the potentiality attached to the use of new and challenging source material.

Author : Trine Wulf-Andersen,Reidun Follesø,Terje Olsen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030759414

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Involving Methods in Youth Research by Trine Wulf-Andersen,Reidun Follesø,Terje Olsen Pdf

This edited volume develops critical discussions of prominent methodological approaches in participatory youth research. Chapters give special attention to power issues and dilemmas concerning young people’s and researchers’ involvement in research processes. The collection brings together perspectives of authors from throughout Nordic countries, all with comprehensive experience of qualitative research methods involving young people.

Author : Gunilla Dahlberg,Peter Moss,Alan Pence,Dr Alan Pence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134113514

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Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care by Gunilla Dahlberg,Peter Moss,Alan Pence,Dr Alan Pence Pdf

This book challenges received wisdom and the tendency to reduce philosophical issues of value to purely technical issues of measurement and management.

Author : Will Parnell,Jeanne Marie Iorio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317558538

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Disrupting Early Childhood Education Research by Will Parnell,Jeanne Marie Iorio Pdf

Recent and increasing efforts to standardize young children’s academic performance have shifted the emphases of education toward normative practices and away from qualitative, substantive intentions. Connection to human experience, compassion for societal ailments, and the joys of learning are straining under the pressure of quantitative research, competition, and test scores, exemplified by federal funding competitions and policymaking. Disrupting Early Childhood Education Research critically interrogates the traditional foundations of early childhood research practices to disrupt the status quo through imaginative, cutting-edge research in diverse U.S. and international contexts. Its chapters are driven by empirical data derived from unique research projects and a variety of contemporary methodologies that include phenomenological studies, auto-ethnographic writings, action-oriented studies, arts-based methodologies, and other innovative approaches. By giving voice to marginalized social science researchers who are active in learning, school, and early education sectors, this volume explores the meanings of actionable and everyday approaches based on the experiences of young children, their families, and educators.

Author : Vodopivec, Jurka Lepi?nik,Jan?ec, Lucija,Štemberger, Tina
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781522558002

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Implicit Pedagogy for Optimized Learning in Contemporary Education by Vodopivec, Jurka Lepi?nik,Jan?ec, Lucija,Štemberger, Tina Pdf

In addition to the content prescribed by the official curriculum of any given educational establishment, students learn other information and skills outside of the intended and taught information (such as sharing, communication, and conflict-resolution). These learned skills, otherwise unaccounted for in the education process, can be considered as a part of a hidden or unwritten curriculum. Implicit Pedagogy for Optimized Learning in Contemporary Education is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the application of assessment methods for the evaluation of indirect and direct educational methods. While highlighting topics such as language development, teacher agency, and learning process, this publication explores hidden curricula as well as the methods of learning outside of the prescribed school curriculum. It is ideally designed for educators, administrators, students, and researchers seeking current research on the effect of hidden curricula on the education process.

Author : Gunilla Dahlberg,Peter Moss,Alan R. Pence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : EDUCATION
ISBN : 0415819040

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Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care by Gunilla Dahlberg,Peter Moss,Alan R. Pence Pdf

Taking a broad approach, Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care relates issues of early childhood to the sociology of childhood, philosophy, ethics, political science and other fields and to an analysis of the world we live in today. It places these issues in a global context and draws on work from Canada, Sweden and Italy, including the world famous nurseries in Reggio Emilia. Working with postmodern ideas, this book questions the search to define and measure quality in the early childhood field and its tendency to reduce philosophical issues of value to purely technical and managerial issues of expert knowledge and measurement. With a brand new Preface to this classic text, the authors argue that there are other ways than the 'discourse of quality' for understanding and evaluating early childhood pedagogical work and relate these to alternative ways of understanding early childhood itself and the purposes of early childhood institutions.

Author : Fiachra Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Children
ISBN : 147255289X

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Educating the Postmodern Child by Fiachra Long Pdf

Author : Sharon Ryan,Susan Grieshaber
Publisher : JAI Press Incorporated
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-26
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015059139751

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Practical Transformations and Transformational Practices by Sharon Ryan,Susan Grieshaber Pdf

In this volume the contributors describe their work and research into developing new approaches to the diverse educational circumstances now facing early childhood educators.

Author : Zoyah Kinkead-Clark,Kerry-Ann Escayg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030690137

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Reconceptualizing Quality in Early Childhood Education, Care and Development by Zoyah Kinkead-Clark,Kerry-Ann Escayg Pdf

Recognizing the various ecological contexts that support children’s development while amplifying voices from across the globe, this book challenges narrow interpretations of quality and best practice. Each author offers a unique perspective on issues germane to the field of early childhood education: perceptions of children, curriculum, teacher education, and play-based learning. An innovative, timely, and much-needed contribution, this book represents an inclusive collection of theoretical and cultural knowledge, as well as research. Such a diverse multicentric lens opens new intellectual pathways for authentic, reciprocal knowledge exchange, while ensuring that a reimagining of early childhood education remains at the core of our teaching practice, scholarship, and activism. This book invites everyone to imagine, to dare to believe, to hope, and to act—in the interests of children, in the interests of communities and families, and in the moral precepts of equity, inclusion and justice.

Author : Maria Ampartzaki,Michail Kalogiannakis
Publisher : Intechopen
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1803559489

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Early Childhood Education by Maria Ampartzaki,Michail Kalogiannakis Pdf

This book discusses innovative approaches that employ transformative elements (targets, methods, materials, ideas, etc.) in early childhood education. It embraces integrated approaches and conceptualizations, such as the concept of "edu-care," which signifies the inseparability of care and education. Further, it examines the implementation of the STEM and STEAM approaches at the microlevel of a classroom and at the country level to get a grasp of the degree of implementation and stakeholders' understanding. It also presents a well-documented attempt at the creation of "transformative" learning experiences for young children through an online course on local history. The book ends with some concluding remarks on the application of post-modernist ideas in early childhood education.

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1061 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799890270

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Research Anthology on Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning by Management Association, Information Resources Pdf

As education continues to take great strides to become more inclusive and understanding of diverse students and cultures, teaching practices and methods for learning are an essential part of the puzzle and must be addressed to create culturally responsive educational experiences. Teachers must make meaningful connections between a student’s culture, language, life experiences, and background to what the student is learning in the classroom. By integrating culture into the classroom, student achievement can be fostered, and students can excel. Underserved populations may face discrimination when it comes to culture, language, or race, and their needs can often be neglected. By implementing culturally responsive teaching, students can feel valued, motivated, understood, and included in their education. The Research Anthology on Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning displays the best practices and lessons learned for culturally responsive teaching and learning across different types of institutions, classroom subjects, and with different types of students from diverse cultural backgrounds. The chapters focus on culturally responsive practices and how these methods for teaching can impact student success, empowerment, and cultural competence. This book is essential in understanding cultural diversity and inequity in education as well as the ways to address it. This book is ideal for faculty, teachers, counselors, administrators, principals, curriculum developers, instructional designers, professionals, researchers, and students seeking to improve their understanding of culturally responsive teaching and learning.

Author : Michael A. Peters,Marek Tesar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351600743

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Troubling the Changing Paradigms by Michael A. Peters,Marek Tesar Pdf

Troubling the Changing Paradigms is the fourth volume in the Educational Philosophy and Theory: Editor’s Choice series and represents a collection of texts that were selected as representations of the philosophy and pedagogy of early years, childhood and early childhood education. The philosophy of the early years is complex, and this book demonstrates how this fascinating subject can be interlinked with both the philosophy and history of education as being instrumental in shaping the child subject, childhoods and children’s educational futures. This book demonstrates the application of philosophical and theoretical perspectives that provide us with global and local narratives and understandings of children as subjects, and their subjectivities. The philosophical traditions offer new spaces in which to think about alternative childhoods, and contribute to an important analysis in which philosophy has the capacity to shape children’s lives and education, and to elevate the multiplicity of discourses around very young children and their education and care. Through the texts in this volume, the authors aim to find creative philosophical forms that are capable of interrupting, if not disrupting, traditional and, in some settings, perhaps more conventional discourses about children and their childhoods. These philosophical forms present productive ways that allow fresh conceptions of what is all too often an assumed set of subjectivities and experiences about very young children. Troubling the Changing Paradigms will be key reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of philosophy of education, philosophy, education, educational theory, post-structural theory, the policy and politics of education, and the pedagogy of education.

Author : Natalie Canning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429838903

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Children's Empowerment in Play by Natalie Canning Pdf

Children's Empowerment in Play is an accessible insight into the vital place of play in children’s development. The book focuses on three main themes of participation, voice and ownership, and explores ways to positively and naturally develop play in early years settings. Drawing on primary research and presenting in-depth case studies of children in a range of play scenarios, Canning offers a framework for understanding play and its relationship with children’s empowerment, and highlights play patterns and the ways in which practitioners can identify these. Chapters also cover: The research context for empowerment in play The significance of play and empowerment in the lives of children The power play can have, and indicators of empowering behaviour Observing empowerment in play and the challenges of celebrating it Written for all those working with young children and students on early childhood courses, this book will transform how you understand and engage with children’s experiences and learning.