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Children's Negotiation Tactics and Socio-Emotional Self-Regulation in Child-Led Play Experiences: The Influence of the Preschool Pedagogic Culture
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Arnott, Lorna – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
Early Childhood Education (ECE) typically positions the child at the centre of their own learning, with a high degree of child-initiated and child-led experiences. As such, ECE is often characterized by 'free play' during which children are provided with opportunities to manage and negotiate their socio-emotional interactions. This process of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Play, Student Role
Parent-Practitioner Partnerships in Early Childhood Provision in England, Hungary and Kazakhstan: Similarities and Differences in Discourses
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Murray, Jane; Teszenyi, Eleonora; Varga, Anikó Nagy; Pálfi, Sándor; Tajiyeva, Marzhan; Iskakova, Aigul – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
Whilst international policymakers have reached consensus on the importance of investing in early childhood development and increasingly monitor that investment using standardized measurement, the nature and rationale of early childhood education and care (ECEC) provision remain diverse. In the context of that disparity, this article explores an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Child Development
Playing at Violence: Lock-down Drills, "Bad Guys" and the Construction of "Acceptable" Play in Early Childhood
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Delaney, Katherine K. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This study examines how acceptable play was framed for a class of pre-Kindergarten children by their teacher and classroom aide. Using comic subjectivity theory [Zupancic, A. (2008). "The odd one in: On comedy." Cambridge: MIT Press], the author explores how children's playing at pretend violence (bad guy and pretend gun play) is…
Descriptors: Play, Violence, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
Using Cross-Cultural, Intergenerational Play Narratives to Explore Issues of Social Justice and Equity in Discourse on Children's Play
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Shimpi, Priya Mariana; Nicholson, Julie – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
Discussion of children's play in international and diverse communities requires careful consideration of social, cultural and political contexts impacting children's lives, as well as recognition of the complexities revealed when these variables are identified and analysed. Using diverse conceptual frameworks represented in the research…
Descriptors: Play, Childhood Attitudes, Adults, Interviews
Seeking Children's Perspectives: A Respectful Layered Research Approach
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Merewether, Jane; Fleet, Alma – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
This article discusses why researchers and educators might choose to seek children's perspectives. It also highlights some of the key considerations when seeing children as having the right to contribute to decisions that affect them. The article draws on findings from a study that used pedagogically oriented methods for researching three- and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childhood Attitudes, Preschool Children, Participatory Research
Cultures of Abuse within Residential Child Care.
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Parkin, Wendy; Green, Lorraine – Early Child Development and Care, 1997
Uses interviews with residents and ex-residents, ethnographic techniques, and document analysis to examine sexuality and sexual abuse in residential childcare settings, including how their culture and leadership contribute to abuse and the denial and invisibility of sexuality. Discusses issues around researching sexuality, children, and abusive…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Children