Capturing Children's Meanings in Early Childhood Research and Practice

A Practical Guide

Ann Marie Halpenny

• Editorial: Routledge
• Año: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781351163941
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Pedagogía
• Categoría: Educación general

Capturing Children's Meanings in Early Childhood Research and Practice draws together contemporary research and established theories to produce a unique take on the meanings children express through a range of creative tools. Drawing on Reggio Emilia and the Mosaic approach, this book provides readers with a range of strategies for accessing, recording and interpreting young children's perceptions of and responses to their experiences.

Providing a synthesis of the multiple imaginative ways we can capture young children's meanings through observations, art, photo elicitation, mindfulness, music and other creative methods, Halpenny covers topics such as:

• Negotiating challenges presented by researching with children

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• Frameworks for seeing and hearing children's intentions

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• Accurately documenting and interpreting research findings

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• Promoting children's meanings and their performance of them

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• Moving forward with new understandings

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This book is an indispensable resource for students of early childhood education, especially for courses focusing on the lived experiences of children from early to middle childhood. It is also a useful reference for those working with young children in educational and caregiving settings, and for those advocating for young children.

Índice

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1: Researching young children’s experiences and meanings
• Chapter 2: Negotiating challenges in doing research with young children
• Chapter 3: Documenting children’s meanings
• Chapter 4: Ways of seeing: Observation skills in research with young children
• Chapter 5: Ways of listening: Supporting children’s conversations
• Chapter 6: Making children’s meanings visible
• Chapter 7: Mindful moments and performance of meanings
• Chapter 8: Capturing meanings and moving forward with new understandings
• References
• Index