Children's Interests, Inquiries and Identities: Curriculum, Pedagogy, Learning and Outcomes in the Early Years

ISBN-13: 9780367689827 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 192 str.

Helen Hedges

Opis

Children’s Interests, Inquiries, and Identities argues that the powerful relationship between interests and informal learning has been under-recognised and undervalued. The book proposes new principles for understanding children’s learning.

Spis treści

1. Children’s interests: Beyond the activities of the moment 2. Interests and informal learning: A powerful relationship 3. Children’s interests: Debates, tensions, and possibilities in practice and policy 4. Understanding children’s interests: Relational, ethical research 5. Deeper understandings 1: Funds of knowledge as a framing for interests 6. Deeper understandings 2: Children’s inquiries and identities 7. Deeper understandings 3: Children’s working theories 8. (Re)Positioning teachers’ interests in curriculum and pedagogy 9. Interests, identities, and outcomes beyond childhood 10. Taking children’s interests seriously: Interests-related curriculum and pedagogy

O autorze

Helen Hedges is a professor of early childhood education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research focuses on the nature of co-constructed interests-based curriculum and pedagogy, and the knowledge teachers bring to fostering and extending children’s learning.