Disrupting Early Childhood Education Research

Imagining New Possibilities
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-83910-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 457 g

Reihe: Changing Images of Early Childhood

Recent and increasing efforts to standardize young children’s academic performance have shifted the emphases of education toward normative practices and away from qualitative, substantive intentions. Connection to human experience, compassion for societal ailments, and the joys of learning are straining under the pressure of quantitative research, competition, and test scores, exemplified by federal funding competitions and policymaking.

Disrupting Early Childhood Education Research critically interrogates the traditional foundations of early childhood research practices to disrupt the status quo through imaginative, cutting-edge research in diverse U.S. and international contexts. Its chapters are driven by empirical data derived from unique research projects and a variety of contemporary methodologies that include phenomenological studies, auto-ethnographic writings, action-oriented studies, arts-based methodologies, and other innovative approaches. By giving voice to marginalized social science researchers who are active in learning, school, and early education sectors, this volume explores the meanings of actionable and everyday approaches based on the experiences of young children, their families, and educators.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parnell, Will

Iorio, Jeanne Marie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Curricula: Planung und Entwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Grundschulen, Hauptschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor Introduction

Nicola Yelland

Foreword

Peter Moss

Chapter 1: Reaching Toward the Possible

Jeanne Marie Iorio and Will Parnell

Section 1: New Theoretical and Methodological Imaginings

Chapter 2: Research as an ethic of welcome and relationship: Pedagogical documentation in Reggio Emilia, Italy

Stefania Giamminuti

Chapter 3: Theorizing what it means to be pedagogical in (the) early years (of) teaching

Sandy Farquhar and Marek Tesar

Chapter 4: Critiquing traditional colonial practices in teacher education: Interpreting normative practices through visual culture analyses

Richard T. Johnson

Chapter 5: Parents as Producers of Enduring Knowledge Through Inquiry

Paige M. Bray and Erin M. Kenney

Section 2: Democratizing the Research Process

Chapter 6: (Re)imagining Participant Observation with Preschool Children

Allison Sterling Henward

Chapter 7: Words and Bodies: Reimagining Narrative Data in a Toddler Classroom

Emmanuelle N. Fincham

Chapter 8: "I am writing notes too": Rethinking children’s roles in ethnographic research

Ysaaca D. Axelrod

Section 3: Critical Issues in Early Childhood Research from New Perspectives

Chapter 9: Current Playworld Research in Sweden: Rethinking the Role of Young Children and their Teachers in the Design and Execution of Early Childhood Research

Beth Ferholt, Monica Nilsson, Anders Jansson and Karin Alnervik

Chapter 10: Imagining children’s strengths as they start school

Sue Dockett and Bob Perry

Chapter 11: "To Have or not to Have" at School: Action Research on Early Childhood Education in Galicia (Spain).

Concepcion Sánchez-Blanco

Chapter 12: One Test is Not Enough: Getting to Really Know Your Students

Sandra L Osorio

List of Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Will Parnell is Associate Professor of Education and a pedagogical liaison to the Helen Gordon Child Development Center at Portland State University, USA. He also coordinates the master's in early childhood education for the Graduate School of Education's Curriculum and Instruction Department.

Jeanne Marie Iorio is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.