Rethinking Play as Pedagogy

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Sophie Alcock (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Nicola Stobbs (University of Worcester, UK)

Rethinking Play as Pedagogy

Sophie Alcock (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), Nicola Stobbs (University of Worcester, UK)

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Routledge
14 March 2019

Pre-school & kindergarten

Series: Thinking About Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education

The conceptualisation and practice of play is considered core to early childhood pedagogy. In this essential text, contributors from a range of countries and cultures explore how play might be defined, encouraged and interpreted in early childhood settings and practice.

Rethinking Play as Pedagogy provides a fresh perspective of play as a purposeful pedagogy offering multi-layered opportunities for learning and development. Written to provoke group discussion and extend thinking, opportunities for international comparison, points for reflection and editorial provocations, this volume will help students engage critically with a variety of understandings of play, and diverse approaches to harnessing children’s natural propensity to play. Considering the role of the learning environment, the practitioner, the wider community, and policy, chapters are divided into four key sections which reflect major influences on practice and pedagogy:

Being alongside children

Those who educate

Embedding families and communities

Working with systems

Offering in-depth discussion of diverse perceptions, potentials and practicalities of early childhood play, this text will enhance understanding, support self-directed learning, and provoke and transform thinking at both graduate and postgraduate levels, particularly in the field of early childhood education and care, for students, educators, integrated service providers and policy makers.

Edited by: Sophie Alcock (Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand), Nicola Stobbs (University of Worcester, UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9781138319226
ISBN 10: 1138319228
Series: Thinking About Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 14 March 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter One: Playing with digital drawing Chapter Two: Preschool teachers being people alongside young children: The Development of adults' relational competences in Playworlds - Beth Ferholt (USA) & Scandinavian colleagues Chapter Three: Playing through the musical worlds of children Chapter Four: Teachers reflecting while observing children playing Chapter Five: Growing playful pedagogy: A case study of change Chapter Six: Understanding the link between context and curriculum change in early years education Chapter Seven: Examining play and pedagogy: Recognising and responding to family funds of knowledge Chapter Eight: Mothers, Babies and Playful pedagogies Chapter Nine: Facilitating family engagement through pedagogical documentation Chapter Ten: The impact on 'play' as curriculum in the context of government attempts to inform / regulate 'quality' Chapter Eleven: Influences of Macro-Systems on children's spaces, regaining the paradigm Chapter Twelve: Local policies as frames for children's play and learning

Sophie Alcock is senior lecturer in Education at the University of Wellington, New Zealand. Nicola Stobbs is a senior lecturer at the Department for Children & Families, University of Worcester, UK.