Interactions in Early Childhood Education Recent Research and Emergent Concepts /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gunn, Alexandra C. (Editor), Hruska, Claudia A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; International education.; Comparative education.; Educational sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Early Childhood Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Sociology of Education.; International and Comparative Education.

This book provides new insights into how interactions in early childhood education are being studied, and into what these studies’ findings mean for improving the quality of early childhood education. The editors examine the methods, ethics, practices, and questions arising from such close work with...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Interactions in learning: Theoretical and empirical overview
• Chapter 2 A conceptual framework for early education: What micro-sociology can contribute to a theoretically and empirically well-founded didactic in early education
• Chapter 3 Sensitive responsiveness: An approach to the analysis and improvement of Teacher-Child-Interactions in early childhood settings
• Chapter 4 Children's use of objects in their storytelling
• Chapter 5 Young children's participation in a new language context: A synthesizing analysis for a holistic perspective
• Chapter 6 Shaping gender relations in early childhood education: Children's interactions and learning about gender
• Chapter 7 A dialogic approach to understanding infant interactions
• Chapter 8 Enhancing interactions: Understanding family pedagogy and funds of knowledge "on their turf"
• Chapter 9 "That's not Fair!": Concepts of fairness in New Zealand and Japanese early childhood education
• Chapter 10 Strategies for teacher learning and development over child-adult interactions in ECE settings
• Chapter 11 The importance of professional knowledge for learning support in German ECEC settings
• Chapter 12 Learning about interactions and their role in learning in early childhood education: Lessons from research.