Pedagogies for Children's Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138577473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 206 str.

Laurie L. M. Kocher; Catherine Patterson

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In this essential text, contributors from a range of countries and cultures explore approaches to recognizing, respecting and integrating children’s viewpoints in early childhood settings and practice. Considering the role of the environment, the practitioner, the wider community, and policy, chapters provoke group discussion and extend thinking.

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About the Series Editors and Contributors Preface: Introducing the focus  Section 1: Being Alongside Children Chapter 1: Young children’s perspectives of the material learning environment  Chapter 2: ‘It will be difficult to practice something we don’t know how to do.’ Listening to children as they transition to school  Chapter 3: ‘Can you shout a little louder?’ Listening and hearing children’s voices through play  Editorial provocations: Engaging readers and extending thinking  Section 2: Those Who Educate Chapter 4: Children and families outside the mainstream: Ensuring inclusion for all  Chapter 5: Lingering in artistic spaces: Becoming attuned to children’s processes and perspectives through the early childhood studio  Chapter 6: Teachers learning to recognize the voice of the child Editorial provocations: Engaging readers and extending thinking  Section 3: Embedding Families and Communities Chapter 7: Project Work as a tool for intercultural pedagogy  Chapter 8: ‘No one ever listens to me, not even my daddy.’ Listening to children described as having ‘special educational needs’ and disabilities (SEND), Caroline Jones Chapter 9: Working with and listening to families  Editorial provocations: Engaging readers and extending thinking  Section 4: Working with Systems Chapter 10: Leadership of professional learning – essential for innovation and change  Chapter 11: Upholding children’s rights in a landscape of legislation, regulations, curriculum frameworks, accreditation, teacher standards and policies  Chapter 12: When dialogue transforms a system: Dynamic democratic systems that listen  Editorial provocations: Engaging readers and extending thinking  Coda: Thinking forward