Listening to Young Children, Expanded Third Edition

2017-06-21
Listening to Young Children, Expanded Third Edition

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  • Author: Alison Clark
  • Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • ISBN: 1909391263
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 160

Viewing children as 'experts in their own lives', the Mosaic approach offers a creative framework for understanding young children's perspectives through talking, walking, making and reviewing material with an adult. This book demonstrates how children's views and experiences can stay in focus in early childhood provision. The multi-method approach brings together digital tools with interviewing and observation to enable adults to review current practice and implement change with children. Combining the authors' successful books Listening to Young Children and Spaces to Play into an expanded and fully updated third edition, this book builds on the authors' original ground-breaking work by commenting on the development and adaptation of the Mosaic approach, along with case studies of the Mosaic approach in action in four countries: England, Denmark, Norway and Australia. Alongside guidance on using and adapting the framework with young children, older children and adults, there is new material on the ethical and methodological issues involved.

Are You Listening?

2008-05-01
Are You Listening?

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  • Author: Lisa Burman
  • Publisher: Redleaf Press
  • ISBN: 1933653469
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 220

A comprehensive guide to facilitating conversations with and between children to promote early learning.

Spaces to Play

2005-03-31
Spaces to Play

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  • Author: Alison Clark
  • Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • ISBN: 1907969241
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 119

Spaces to Play explains how to use innovative Mosaic approach with young children to ensure their perspectives are the starting point when planning planning outdoor environments in early years provision. An ideal companion to the bestselling introduction, Listening to Young Children: The Mosaic approach, Spaces to Play draws on the findings of a pilot study which used the approach to listen to young children's views and experiences of their outdoor environment, and used the findings to to inform change. It describes how to adapt the Mosaic approach to work in outdoor spaces, demonstrates young children's competencies in expressing their perspectives and explores the links between listening and learning. The book also outlines the challenges and future directions for practitioners and researchers in listening to young children.

Listening to Young Children

2011
Listening to Young Children

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  • Author: Alison Clark
  • Publisher: JKP
  • ISBN: 1907969268
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 100

The Mosaic approach views children as ‘experts in their own lives’, and offers a creative framework for listening to young children’s perspectives. At a time of shifting policy in early years, this second edition offers a timely reminder that listening to young children is still important for reviewing service provision.The Mosaic approach has been applied by practitioners throughout the world. This new edition reflects on the authors’ original ground-breaking work, with new introductions, updates and examples of how the Mosaic approach has been adapted, and offers case studies that will encourage practitioners to use the framework in their own setting.will be of interest to policy makers, practitioners in nurseries, children’s centres, pre-schools and schools and residential settings. It will also be welcomed by early childhood students and other researchers who are engaged in searching for new theoretical, practical and imaginative ways of listening to young children.

Listening to Young Children in Early Years Settings

2019-04-18
Listening to Young Children in Early Years Settings

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  • Author: Sonia Mainstone-Cotton
  • Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • ISBN: 1784508551
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 120

It is widely accepted that listening to and involving children in decisions about their care, learning and development can significantly improve the quality of early years provision. This book gives practical guidance on how to do this effectively. Starting with a discussion about why we listen to children and the policies around this, the book explains how we can involve children in decision-making that is appropriate to their age and level of understanding. Packed full of examples and ideas that can be easily applied in practice, it covers how to listen to children's perspectives and involve them in staff recruitment and appraisals, classroom design, assessment processes for social services and EHC plans, and much more.

Listening To Young Children

2010-10-01
Listening To Young Children

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  • Author: Lancaster, Y. Penny
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
  • ISBN: 0335241271
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 76

This is a comprehensive resource that supports practitioners' and parents' understanding of what it means to include the voices of young children and to respond to what young children have to say.

Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8

2015-07-23
Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8

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  • Author: National Research Council
  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 0309324882
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 706

Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 explores the science of child development, particularly looking at implications for the professionals who work with children. This report examines the current capacities and practices of the workforce, the settings in which they work, the policies and infrastructure that set qualifications and provide professional learning, and the government agencies and other funders who support and oversee these systems. This book then makes recommendations to improve the quality of professional practice and the practice environment for care and education professionals. These detailed recommendations create a blueprint for action that builds on a unifying foundation of child development and early learning, shared knowledge and competencies for care and education professionals, and principles for effective professional learning. Young children thrive and learn best when they have secure, positive relationships with adults who are knowledgeable about how to support their development and learning and are responsive to their individual progress. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 offers guidance on system changes to improve the quality of professional practice, specific actions to improve professional learning systems and workforce development, and research to continue to build the knowledge base in ways that will directly advance and inform future actions. The recommendations of this book provide an opportunity to improve the quality of the care and the education that children receive, and ultimately improve outcomes for children.

Positive and Trusting Relationships with Children in Early Years Settings

2010-06-22
Positive and Trusting Relationships with Children in Early Years Settings

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  • Author: Jessica Johnson
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 1844457109
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 144

To attain EYPS, candidates must demonstrate that they can establish fair, respectful, trusting and constructive relationships with children. This book helps those on EYPS pathways to understand and develop these important relationships. It begins by examining trust as a key theme and goes on to discuss how to 'tune in' to individual children and how to 'tune out' or say goodbye. It gives practical advice on helping children build resilience and take risks. Positive relationships with children are examined within the context of relationships with others and the text also considers how practitioners can support other professionals in their setting.

Listening to Young Children

2003
Listening to Young Children

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  • Author: Y. Penny Lancaster
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780335213726
  • Category : Children and adults
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 57

Excluding VAT â£135Including VAT â£146.29For special pricing on bulk orders please email [email protected] importance of listening to children is increasingly being recognised. Recent developments across childrenâ¬"s services in education, health and social welfare have reinforced the value that government and service providers place on this basic human right.Listening to Young Children is a comprehensive resource, which:* Supports practitionersâ¬" and parentsâ¬" understanding of what it means to include the voices of young children and to respond to what young children have to say* Enables practitioners and parents to develop and offer young children real opportunities to express their views of experiences and events in their daily lives* Promotes childrenâ¬"s participation in decision-making and problem-solving processes about matters that concern them* Acknowledges the existing strengths of families and communities by building on their capacity to participate actively.The pack consists of five parts: Getting Started â¬" the introductory guide; Promoting Listening to Young Children â¬" the reader; Listening and Looking â¬" the practitioner handbook; Eleven shared experiences â¬" individual case study booklets; and a CD-ROM with audiovisual material to illustrate the case studies. Each part complements the others through links, offering stepping-stones by addressing why, when and how to listen to young children.This integrated resource is suitable for a diverse range of settings â¬" at home, in playgroups, nurseries or early years centres, in child-minding settings, schools, parent and family centres, Sure Start initiatives, supervised contact centres, homeless centres, asylum/refugee centres, and centres for children with disabilities or special needs.

Listening to Children

2014-06-05
Listening to Children

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  • Author: Bronwyn Davies
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317672267
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 104

Through a series of exquisite encounters with children, and through a lucid opening up of new aspects of poststructuralist theorizing, Bronwyn Davies opens up new ways of thinking about, and intra-acting with, children. This book carefully guides the reader through a wave of thought that turns the known into the unknown, and then slowly, carefully, makes new forms of thought comprehensible, opening, through all the senses, a deep understanding of our embeddedness in encounters with each other and with the material world. This book takes us into Reggio-Emilia-inspired Swedish preschools in Sweden, into the author’s own community in Australia, into poignant memories of childhood, and offers the reader insights into: new ways of thinking about children and their communities; the act of listening as emergent and alive; ourselves as mobile and multiple subjects; the importance of remaining open to the not-yet-known. Defining research as diffractive, and as experimental, Davies’ relationship to the teachers and pedagogues she worked with is one of co-experimentation. Her relationship with the children is one in which she explores the ways in which her own new thinking and being might emerge, even as old ways of thinking and being assert themselves and interfere with the unfolding of the new. She draws us into her ongoing experimentation, asking that we think hard, all the while delighting our senses with the poetry of her writing, and the stories of her encounters with children.