Communication and Transformation through Collaboration: Rethinking Drawing Activities in Early Childhood

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 306-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Knight
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Primary Schooling ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Adults And Children

This article is a study of the arts in early childhood as a way of learning, for both children and their teachers. The author suggests that drawing can be a powerful tool for collaborative approaches to pedagogy. When teachers draw with children, pathways of communication can be opened, and the collaborative exercise can trigger processes of transformation for both adult and child. In order to present challenges to more traditional, hands-off pedagogical practices in arts education, this article is an account of reflexive arts pedagogies, and how they can work to improve communication and understandings between adults and children. Within the educational contexts of Australian preschooling and primary schooling, the author examines the process of collaborative drawing, and how this can enable a process of transformation. Her analysis, and the accompanying examples of reflexive practices, combine complementary lenses, socio-cultural and postmodern, that she sees as working in harmony to produce new possibilities, in arts education in particular, and, more broadly, in early childhood education.

EFFECTS OF PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES and PRACTICES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: A RESEARCH REVIEW

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (26) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pushpita Rajawat
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Relative Effectiveness ◽  
National Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Research Review ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

The relative effectiveness of different pedagogical approaches and pedagogies in early childhood has raised substantial debate. While the other are associated with the acquisition of basic skills and knowledge and some of them are associated with socio-emotional development and problem-solving abilities. In general, research revealed both positive and negative effects of pedagogical approaches, without favouring specific pedagogical approaches over mainstream ones. However, it is important to note that research evidence and studies considering the same approaches in the same context are very limited. On the other hand, specific pedagogical practices are found to enhance child development, including high-quality interactions involving sustained-shared thinking methods, play-based learning, scaffolding, as well as a combination of staff- and child initiated activities. Research impacts pedagogy and pedagogical practices in the sense that research findings can inform policy makers and practitioners on best practices and what works best in enhancing staff performance, process quality and child development. Research on pedagogy and practices is usually not conducted at the national level, but focuses on particular programmes. So, research review has been used as a guide or manual to provide pedagogical guidance for Early Childhood Education (ECE) staff not only in India but also worldwide. The main focus of the study is that how of the best pedagogical practices and approaches across the country can be useful and implemented in early childhood education

scholarly journals Logros de niños y niñas de educación inicial mediante el juego con bloques de Lego (Achievements of Early Childhood Education children through play with Lego blocks)

Retos ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 241-249
Author(s):  
Alix María Casadiego ◽  
Karina Avendaño Casadiego ◽  
Leidy Carolina Cuervo ◽  
Gabriel Avendaño Casadiego ◽  
Alvaro Avendaño Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Temporal Relationship ◽  
Free Play ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Didactic Engineering ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Observation Code

 El juego, además de ser una de las experiencias que más disfrutan niños y niñas durante su etapa en educación inicial, les permite aprender y desarrollarse en forma integral. De acuerdo con ello, el presente estudio tiene como objetivo indagar en cuáles logros en relaciones espaciales, temporales y socioafectivas son más exitosos los niños y las niñas de educación inicial e identificar su evolución durante 10 semanas de observación. La metodología tuvo dos fases: inicialmente, mediante la ingeniería didáctica, se construyó un código de observación y una vez construido se realizaron las observaciones durante 10 semanas de trabajo. Las actividades fueron realizadas, durante las horas de juego libre, en las escuelas donde la Facultad de Educación de la Universidad Surcolombiana realiza sus prácticas pedagógicas. Los resultados mostraron que es en la actividad socio afectiva donde se obtienen mayores logros desde el comienzo de la experiencia; por otro lado, el principal logro se obtiene en la característica relación temporal, relacionada con la capacidad para anticiparse a los acontecimientos o predecir resultados, específicamente en la capacidad de organizar un plan para llevar a cabo una idea, que se logra en un 87%. Abstract. Playing, in addition to being one of the experiences that children enjoy the most during their stage of early childhood education, allows them to learn and develop in an integral way. In accordance with this, the present study aims to investigate which achievements in spatial, temporal and socio-affective relationships are more successful in early childhood education children and to identify their evolution during 10 weeks of observation. The methodology had two phases: initially, through didactic engineering, an observation code was constructed and once it was ready, observations were made during 10 weeks of work. The activities were carried out, during free play hours, in the schools where the Education Faculty of the Surcolombiana University carries out its pedagogical practices. The results showed that it is in the socio-affective activity where the greatest achievements are obtained from the beginning of the experience; on the other hand, the main achievement is obtained in the characteristic temporal relationship, related to the ability to anticipate events or predict results, specifically in the ability to organize a plan to carry out an idea, is achieved 87%.

scholarly journals Dialogue and Interaction in Early Childhood Education: A Systematic Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocío García-Carrión ◽  
Lourdes Villardón-Gallego
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Life Outcomes ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
Childhood Education

<p>There is solid evidence that high quality Early Childhood Education (ECE hereafter) have substantial impact on later life outcomes. A growing literature suggests that interventions that develop social competency as well as cognitive, language and academic skills in the earliest years play a role in later educational, social and economic success. Less is known about the most conducive interactions –verbal and non-verbal- underpinning such pedagogical practices in early childhood education. This article aims at reviewing the last decade’s early childhood education with a twofold objective: (a) to describe how dialogue and interaction take place in high-quality early childhood education settings; (b) to identify the effects, if any, on children’s learning and development as a result of implementing dialogue-based interventions in ECE. The studies were identified through systematic search of electronic databases and analyzed accordingly. Several types of interactions given in high quality ECE programs and its short and long-term effects are discerned in this review. </p>

Tending, counting and fitting with post-developmental fat(s) in early childhood education

2020 ◽  
pp. 146394912090738
Author(s):  
Nicole Land
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Early Childhood Educators ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Childhood Education

This article responds to Euro-western conceptions of childhood obesity that understand fat within developmental narratives, as biochemically consequential and as a marker of individualized responsibility. Drawing in multiple fat(s) generated in a pedagogical inquiry with early childhood educators and children, the author articulates ‘post-developmental fat(s)’ as fat(s) that trouble the logics, practices and relationships required to understand fat as obesity. She traces how situated methods of tending fat(s) generated specific possibilities for counting and fitting fat(s). Foregrounding questions of how fat(s) happen and what fat(s) can do in early childhood education, the author takes seriously how fat(s) matter momentarily amid intentional, speculative and deeply politicized pedagogical practices oriented towards doing fat(s) differently in early childhood education.

scholarly journals Imaginación, creatividad y aprendizaje por descubrimiento a través del arte en Educación Infantil / Imagination, creativity and discovery learning through art in early childhood education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Rodríguez Cristino
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Discovery Learning ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Five Senses ◽  
Real Practice

Este artículo presenta una forma de aprendizaje a través del arte en la etapa de Educación Infantil. El arte es una herramienta crucial para lograr aprendizajes significativos y que perdurarán en  el recuerdo de los más pequeños a lo largo de toda su vida, porque ellos habrán sido los protagonistas de sus procesos de enseñanza y de aprendizaje. Se trata de desarrollar la creatividad de estos, la imaginación y la curiosidad mediante la experimentación, el aprendizaje por descubrimiento, la manipulación y el empleo de los cinco sentidos. El objetivo fundamental es presentar una manera diferente y atractiva de trabajar en las aulas cualquier contenido a través del arte mediante las “instalaciones artísticas” y formar a los educadores en ello. Una vez expuesta la parte teórica y fundamentada se presentará una investigación a través de las artes llevada a cabo durante tres meses en un aula de Infantil  de niños y niñas de entre 3 y 4 años de edad y cuya práctica real en dicho colegio llamado “Niña María” de Linares (Jaén) duró dos días. Finalmente, para concluir el trabajo se recogen  los resultados obtenidos.Imagination, creativity and discovery learning through art in early childhood educationThis article presents a way of learning through art in the kindergarten stage. Art is a crucial tool to achieve significant learning and that will last in the memory of the little ones throughout their lives because they have been the protagonists of their teaching and learning. It is about developing creativity of these, imagination and curiosity through experimentation, discovery learning, handling and use of the five senses. The main objective is to present a different and attractive way to work in the classroom any content through art by the “artistic installations” and train educators about it. Once exposed the theoretical and research based part through the arts held for three months in a classroom of children Children aged between 3 and 4 years old and whose real practice in that school will be presented called “Niña María” Linares (Jaén) lasted two days. Finally, to complete the work, the results obtained are presented. 

Locating the Educator in Outdoor Early Childhood Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Dawson ◽  
A. Elizabeth Beattie
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Cognitive Knowledge ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Practice Of Teaching

AbstractWe tell the story of an experience Kate Dawson, her students, and three eagles had at an outdoor preschool. The experience profoundly affected Kate, and prompted us to ask the following questions: What made this experience feel so magical, and what caused it to happen? Why are these magical moments valuable, and how might they impact our pedagogical practices? We posit that magical moments in outdoor early childhood education depend upon relational and pathic knowledge, and understanding of place, rather than intellectual or cognitive knowledge about place. We suggest conditions and practices educators may employ to foster magical moments, including slow ecopedagogy and embodied, sensory, and spiritual attunement to place. We consider our role as educators in the educator-students-place system, particularly when acknowledging that place is agentic, and acts as learner, knower and teacher. To understand place pedagogically, we must think of ourselves as learners and as the objects of learning, as much as thinking of ourselves as knowers. This requires a pedagogy of embodied responsiveness and a surrender to place as teacher. Far from simplifying the work of the educator, living within a relationship of educator-students-place complexifies the practice of teaching.

scholarly journals NDI COMUNIDADE: AMPLIANDO A RELAÇÃO TEORIA E PRÁTICA NA FORMAÇÃO INICIAL E CONTINUADA DE ACADÊMICOS E PROFISSIONAIS DA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 61-74
Author(s):  
Carolina S. Spinelli ◽  
Juliana Euzébio ◽  
Juliete Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Educational Sciences ◽  
Education Of Students

The NDI Community Extension project aims to promote the initial and continuing education of teachers and professionals in the area of early childhood education. Since 1994, the Center for Child Development (NDI) linked to the Center for Educational Sciences (CED) of the Federal University of Santa Catarina(UFSC), operates through the NDI Community Extension project in the initial and continuing education of students, teachers and area managersfromKindergarten and other areas. This project is linked to teaching and research because it establishes dialogue with the pedagogical practices of NDI and the research carried out by its teachers. Throughout its existence, the Extension Project welcomed the community of teachers and sought to ensure a space for articulation between theory and practice in its formation. This article analyzes the questionnaires sent after the technical visits and thematic training, in order to understand what was formative in the experience of these professionals.

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