Capturing Children's Meanings in Early Childhood Research and Practice

A Practical Guide
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8153-5003-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 649 g

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

- Frameworks for seeing and hearing children’s intentions

- Accurately documenting and interpreting research findings

- Promoting children’s meanings and their performance of them

- Moving forward with new understandings

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.

Zielgruppe

Professional and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Halpenny, Ann Marie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Kindergarten & Vorschule
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Researching Young Children’s Experiences and Meanings 2. Negotiating Challenges in Doing Research with Young Children 3. Documenting Children’s Meanings 4. Ways of Seeing: Observation Skills in Research with Young Children 5. Ways of Listening: Supporting Children’s Conversations 6. Making Children’s Meanings Visible 7. Mindful Moments and Performance of Meanings 8. Capturing Meanings and Moving Forward with New Understandings

Über Autor(innen)

Ann Marie Halpenny is a lecturer in Psychology and Research Methods at the School of Languages, Law and Social Sciences in the Technological University, Dublin, Ireland.