The Ecology Of Playful Childhood

Author : Akira Takada
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030494391

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The Ecology of Playful Childhood by Akira Takada Pdf

While studies of San children have attained the peculiar status of having delineated the prototype for hunter-gatherer childhood, relatively few serious ethnographic studies of San children have been conducted since an initial flurry of research in the 1960s and 1970s. Based on the author’s long-term field research among several San groups of Southern Africa, this book reconsiders hunter-gatherer childhood using “play” as a key concept. Playfulness pervades the intricate practices of caregiver-child interactions among the San: immediately after birth, mothers have extremely close contact with their babies. In addition to the mother’s attentions, other people around the babies actively facilitate gymnastic behavior to soothe them. These distinctive caregiving behaviors indicate a loving, indulgent attitude towards infants. This also holds true for several language genres of the San that are used in early vocal communication. Children gradually become involved in various playful activities in groups of children of multiple ages, which is the major locus of their attachment after weaning; these playful activities show important similarities to the household and subsistence activities carried out by adults. Rejuvenating studies of San children and hunter-gatherer childhood and childrearing practices, this book aims to examine these issues in detail, ultimately providing a new perspective for the understanding of human sociality.

Author : Marianne N. Bloch,Anthony D. Pellegrini
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Child development
ISBN : UCSC:32106008720689

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The Ecological Context of Children's Play by Marianne N. Bloch,Anthony D. Pellegrini Pdf

This volume illustrates the wide range of current theoretical frameworks, methodologies, and research directions in studies of the ecology of children's play. The contributors represent a range of disciplines and methods including ecological psychology, ethology, cross-cultural psychology and anthropology, education, and architecture.

Author : David F. Lancy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781108837781

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The Anthropology of Childhood by David F. Lancy Pdf

Enriched with findings from anthropological scholarship, this book provides a guide to childhood in different cultures, past and present.

Author : Edith Cobb
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Imagination chez l'enfant
ISBN : 0231038704

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The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood by Edith Cobb Pdf

Author : Amelia Church,Amanda Bateman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108986175

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Talking with Children by Amelia Church,Amanda Bateman Pdf

Early childhood teachers know that the quality of child-teacher interactions has an impact on children's social and educational outcomes. Talking with children is central to early learning, but the significant details of high quality conversations in early childhood settings are not always obvious. This Handbook brings together experts from across the globe to share evidence of teachers talking with children in early learning environments. It applies the methodology of conversation analysis to questions about early childhood education, and shows why this method of studying discourse can be a valuable resource for professional development in early childhood. Each chapter of this Handbook includes an up-to-date literature review; shows how interactional pedagogy can be achieved in everyday interactions; and demonstrates how to apply this learning in practice. It offers unique insights into real-life early childhood education practices, based on robust research findings, and provides practical advice for teaching and talking with children.

Author : Michael M. Patte,Fraser Brown,Anna Beresin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780761874461

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Brian Sutton-Smith, Playful Scholar by Michael M. Patte,Fraser Brown,Anna Beresin Pdf

This book honors the legacy of Dr. Brian Sutton-Smith, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Folklore at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Sutton-Smith was considered the premier play scholar of his generation, with numerous publications in the fields of developmental psychology, folklore, anthropology, sociology of sport, education, and philosophy. We present an eclectic array of essays written in honor of the centennial of his birth, ranging from the scholarly to the overtly playful. There are essays distilling his work to their key ideas and some that offer a robust and respectful critique. There are personal anecdotes honoring his memory, and original works of fiction celebrating his legacy. The book is a publication in the TASP biannual Play and Culture Studies series and includes photographs of Brian Sutton-Smith, as well as heartfelt appreciation from scores of colleagues.

Author : Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814794845

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The Ecology of Childhood by Barbara Bennett Woodhouse Pdf

How globalization is undermining sustainable social environments for children This book uses the ecological model of child development together with ethnographic and comparative studies of two small villages, in Italy and the United States, as its framework for examining the well-being of children in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Global forces, far from being distant and abstract, are revealed as wreaking havoc in children’s environments even in economically advanced countries. Falling birth rates, deteriorating labor conditions, fraying safety nets, rising rates of child poverty, and a surge in racism and populism in Europe and the United States are explored in the petri dish of the village. Globalism’s discontents—unrestrained capitalism and technological change, rising inequality, mass migration, and the juggernaut of climate change—are rapidly destabilizing and degrading the social and physical environments necessary to our collective survival and well-being. This crisis demands a radical restructuring of our macrosystemic value systems. Woodhouse proposes an ecogenerist theory that asks whether our policies and politics foster environments in which children and families can flourish. It proposes, as a benchmark, the family-supportive human-rights principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The book closes by highlighting ways in which individuals can engage at the local and regional levels in creating more just and sustainable worlds that are truly fit for children.

Author : Utsa Mukherjee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031337895

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Childhoods & Leisure by Utsa Mukherjee Pdf

This edited volume brings together interdisciplinary scholarship on children’s everyday leisure from across the globe, addressing key questions around children’s agency, rights, child-adult relations, and social change. It is positioned to inaugurate a new frontier of research within leisure studies. Leisure theory has historically been adult-centric and based in the global north, and consequently, children’s lived experiences of leisure have remained marginal to theory-building exercises within leisure studies since its inception. As the call for decolonizing leisure studies grows, this book champions a cross-cultural and social justice agenda that does not privilege global north childhoods but acknowledges the multiplicity of lived childhoods across the globe and their inter-connections. By drawing attention to children’s leisure – across multiple genres such as organized leisure, sports, play, and digital leisure among others, this edited volume drives a new wave of research that speaks simultaneously to leisure studies and childhood studies and thereby advances the intellectual remit of global leisure studies.

Author : Shoko Yamada,Akira Takada
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956553150

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Knowledge, Education and Social Structure in Africa by Shoko Yamada,Akira Takada Pdf

In searching for the potential that lies in African societies, the chapters of this volume consider relationships between knowledge, education and social structure from multiple angles, from a macro-continental scale to national education systems, schools and local communities. The themes that cut across the chapters include education as a mode of transmitting values, the contrasting effects of school credentials and knowledge for use, politics and interactions among people surrounding a school and knowledge acquisition as a subjective process. The rich empirical analyses suggest that the subjective commitment of, and mutuality among, people will make the acquired knowledge a powerful 'tool for conviviality' to realize a stable life, even given the turmoil created by rapid institutional and environmental changes that confront African societies.

Author : Peter K. Smith,Kevin J. Connolly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780521223317

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The Ecology of Preschool Behaviour by Peter K. Smith,Kevin J. Connolly Pdf

This study examines the preschool years in a child's development, education and their deployment in preschool institutions.

Author : David F. Lancy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197645598

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Learning Without Lessons by David F. Lancy Pdf

"This work is designed to fill a rather large lacuna in the field of child development and education. A growing scholarly consensus challenges the universality of western-dominated research in psychology. All or most markers of the child's growth and development are now subject to re-examination through a cross-cultural lens. By the same token, the study of education has been similarly restricted as norms and theory are constructed almost exclusively from research in Euroamerican schools. This work aims to fill a substantial portion of this gap, in particular to document and analyze the myriad processes that come to play as indigenous children learn their culture-without schools or lessons. I will characterize the conglomeration of learning-rich events as instances of "pedagogy in culture." The construct has several connotations, but paramount is the idea that opportunities for learning occur naturally in the course of activities such as work, play, night-time campfire stories, etc., that are not primarily intended to educate"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004471641

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African Futures by Anonim Pdf

The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or lovers – all as future-makers. It is precisely through agents such as these that Africa is futuring: rethinking, living, confronting, imagining, and relating in the light of its many emerging tomorrows.

Author : Arne S. Steinforth,Sabine Klocke-Daffa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030769246

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Challenging Authorities by Arne S. Steinforth,Sabine Klocke-Daffa Pdf

When the notion of ‘alternative facts’ and the alleged dawning of a ‘postfactual’ world entered public discourse, social anthropologists found themselves in unexpectedly familiar territory. In theirempirical experience, fact—knowledge accepted as true—derives its salience from social mechanisms of legitimization, thereby demonstrating a deep interconnection with power and authority. In thisperspective, fact is a continually contested and volatile social category. Due to the specific histories of their colonial and post-independence experience, African societies offer a particularly broad array of insights into social processes of juxtaposition, opposition, and even outright competition between different postulated authorities. The contributions to the present volume explore the variety of ways in which authority is contested in Southern and Eastern Africa, investigating localized discourses on which institution, what kind of knowledge, or whose expertise is accepted as authoritative, thus highlighting the specificities and pluralities in ‘modern’ societies. This edited volume engages with larger theoretical questions regarding power and authority in the context of (post)colonial states (neo)traditional authority, claiming space, conflict and (in)justice, and contestations of knowledge. It offers in-depth critical analyses of ethnographic data that put contemporary African phenomena on equal footing with current controversies in North America, Europe, and other global settings.

Author : Olivia N. Saracho,Bernard Spodek
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791436152

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Multiple Perspectives on Play in Early Childhood Education by Olivia N. Saracho,Bernard Spodek Pdf

While teachers value children's play, they often do not know how to guide that play to make it more educational. This volume reflects current research in the child development and early childhood education fields.

Author : Sarika Kewalramani,Ioanna Palaiologou,Maria Dardanou
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000859898

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The Integration of Internet of Toys in Early Childhood Education by Sarika Kewalramani,Ioanna Palaiologou,Maria Dardanou Pdf

This book offers a fresh look at recent developments in policy, curricula and pedagogical discourse around children’s play with Internet of Toys (IoToys). By expanding the notion of digital and smart play perspectives in early childhood education, the authors critique and develop the broader subject area of IoToys play to better serve its end users. The book brings together research from across three different countries: Australia, Norway and England. It offers tangible examples of how one can use IoToys to build children’s social skills, emotional intelligence, sense of achievement, collaboration and aspects of STEM and design play thinking processes. The learning stories of children’s IoToys play will deliver a comprehensive review of how practitioners and parents can come together to build communities of practice for (re)enhancing children’s learning and growth using evolving technology-based play and engage in paradigmatic debates. Readers as a result will better appreciate the growth in pragmatic applications of technologies together with theoretical perspectives. The book will be a valuable resource for any academic or practitioner just beginning to understand the complexities and success stories of integrating IoToys for children’s playful learning.