How can young children play an active role in developing the design of learning environments?
What methods can be used to bring together children's and practitioners' views about their environment?
What insights can young children offer into good designs for these children's spaces?
With the expansion of early childhood education and the move to 'extended schools', more young children will spend more time than ever before in institutions. Based on two actual building projects, this book is the first of its kind to demonstrate the possibilities of including young...
How can young children play an active role in developing the design of learning environments?
How do views about children shape research concerned with their lives? What different forms can research with children take? What ethical issues does it involve? How does it impact on policy and practice, and on the lives of children themselves?
This book helps you to understand how research is designed and carried out to explore questions about the lives of children and young people. It tackles the methodological, practical and ethical challenges involved, and features examples of actual research that illustrate:
Different strategies for carrying out...
How do views about children shape research concerned with their lives? What different forms can research with children take? What ethical issues do...
How can young children play an active role in developing the design of learning environments?
What methods can be used to bring together children's and practitioners' views about their environment?
What insights can young children offer into good designs for these children's spaces?
With the expansion of early childhood education and the move to 'extended schools', more young children will spend more time than ever before in institutions. Based on two actual building projects, this book is the first of its kind to demonstrate the possibilities of including young...
How can young children play an active role in developing the design of learning environments?
"Childhoods in Context" offers a critical exploration of childhood, drawing attention to the physical and social contexts of children s lives. Through accounts of home and family, school, public spaces, and work, the contributors explore three key arguments: childhood is always located "somewhere" either in a place designed for children or territories that children develop for themselves; childhood is experienced through objects, people, places, and everyday routines; and childhood and adult identities are relational understandings of childhood are dependent on how adulthood is viewed.Raising...
"Childhoods in Context" offers a critical exploration of childhood, drawing attention to the physical and social contexts of children s lives. Through...
Focuses on listening to young children, both from an international perspective and through combining theory, practice and reflection. With contributions and examples from researchers and practitioners in six countries, this book examines critically how listening to young children in early childhood services is understood and practiced.
Focuses on listening to young children, both from an international perspective and through combining theory, practice and reflection. With contributio...
