Educational Research with Our Youngest Voices of Infants and Toddlers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Johansson, Eva (Editor), White, E. Jayne (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: International perspectives on early childhood education and development ; 5
• Subjects: Education.; Educational sociology.; Teaching.; Child development.; Education > Philosophy.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Childhood Education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Educational Philosophy.; Sociology of Education.

Interpreting the voices of under three year olds is central to early childhood education. Yet entering into their life-worlds is fraught with challenges and unrealised possibilities. This ground-breaking book generates a dialogue about the multiple ways researchers have exploited a range of methods...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Prologue
• 1. Introduction: Giving Words to Children’s Voices in Research
• 2. Two Steps Back: Using Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice to Explore Observer Identity and Presence
• Commentary
• 3. Investigating Morality in Toddler’s Life-worlds
• Commentary
• 4. “Seeing” the toddler: Voices or Voiceless
• Commentary
• 5. Embodied Voices and Voicing Embodied Knowing: Accessing and Developing Young Children’s Aesthetic Movement Skills
• Commentary
• 6. “Visual Vivencias”: A Cultural-Historical Theorisation of Researching with Very Young Children
• Commentary
• 7. Taking a “Generous” Approach in Research with Young Children
• Commentary
• 8. “Lived Observation”: The Experience of Being a Body-Subject-Observer Among Body-Subject-Toddlers
• 9. Conclusion: Lessons Learnt and Future Provocations
• Index.     .