scholarly journals You cannot show everything. Implicits and "absences" in the pedagogical documentation in early childhood services (ECEC)

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Zonca

For a long time documentation has played a central role in revealing learning processes in children in early childhood services, promoting the involvement of families and supporting reflexivity in educational work. We interpret pedagogical documentation in terms of revelatory moments, as a strong document (Ferraris, 2009) which affects reality and changes it. In this framework the choice of moments to be recorded influences the way in which historical memory is constructed. The traces educators collect about the daily life of children are scattered stories that combine to define the identity of both children and educators alike. This article focuses on implicits contained in these stories and how these same implicits are conditioned by the very idea of child and education. What influences the decision to document specific moments (for example crying, moments of treatment, regressions) or whether to leave them out? What message do these traces or “absences” convey to parents, children, educators and society? What educational reality emerges from these documented perspectives?

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Bayu Suratman

AbstrakFokus artikel ini mendeskripsikan pendidikan anak usia dini dalam keluarga Melayu  kabupaten Sambas yang berbasis kearifan lokal. Kearifan lokal mendidik anak dalam masyarakat Melayu Sambas diantaranya: Pendidikan melalui cerita rakyat, pendidikan karakter anak melalui pantang larang, dan mendidik anak melalui lingkungan alam. Pendidikan anak usia dini berbasis kearifan lokal dalam keluarga Melayu Sambas sudah berlangsung lama dan secara turun-menurun dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Artikel ini ditulis secara deskriptif, berangkat dari riset kualitatif yang penulis lakukan, berdasarkan pengamatan dan wawancara mendalam pada masyarakat Melayu Sambas.Kata Kunci: Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini, Kearifan Lokal, Melayu SambasAbstractThe Focus of the article describes early childhood education in the families Malay of the  Sambas Which is based on local wisdom.  Local wisdom educating children in Sambas  Malay communities includes: Education through folklore, child character education through pantang larang, and  educating children through the natural environment. Early childhood education based on local wisdom in Sambas Malay families has been going on for a long time and has been descreasing in daily life. This article was written descriptively, departing from qualitative research that the author did, based on observations and indepth interviews with Sambas Malay people.Keywords: Early childhood education, local wisdom, Sambas Malay  


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-60
Author(s):  
Alma Tasevska

Abstract The realistic state of the education of the Roma community illustrates the need for serious investments in resources of a human and material kind. Although the recent decade proved to be a decade of educational needs of the Roma, analyses still show the necessity for sustaining the continuity in advancing the developments of everything connected to early childhood development, as a basic sub-system in education. The research that was done had the aim of exploring the needs for strengthening the competencies and the sensibilities of work in environments with social, language and cultural specificities. The research was conducted in several stages, with focus groups as well: a questionnaire for kindergarten educators was conducted; research with a focus group of kindergarten educators was conducted; research with a focus group of parents whose children attend the kindergarten was conducted; research with a focus group of NGO representatives was conducted. The methods and techniques applied are the method of analysis, the inductive, descriptive and the method of generalization, as well as techniques of analysis of pedagogical documentation, observation,and surveying. It can be concluded that: kindergarten educators show a need towards professional development and training related to early childhood development and learning; kindergarten educators show a need towards cooperation with the community; parents showed their dissatisfaction withthe difficult adaptation of children in the kindergarten; NGO representatives stated the need for infrastructural investments, as well as investments in joint project activities between the children, educators,and parents.


2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 400-416
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Kienzler

The way Frege presented the Square of Opposition in a reduced form in 1879 and 1910 can be used to develop two distinct versions of the square: The traditional square that displays inferences and a “Table of Oppositions” displaying variations of negation. This Table of Oppositions can be further simplified and thus be made more symmetrical. A brief survey of versions of the square from Aristotle to the present shows how both aspects of the square have coexisted for a very long time without ever being properly distinguished.


Author(s):  
Heidi Hardt

Chapter 7 explains why NATO’s institutional memory continues to develop in the way that it does – despite formal learning processes being underutilized. Findings in this chapter draw on the author’s survey-based interviews with 120 NATO elites. The chapter begins by arguing that NATO’s organizational culture locks-in elites’ preference for relying on informal processes and avoiding formal processes. Key characteristics of NATO’s culture posed challenges for identifying and reporting strategic errors. The organization’s norm of consensus made formal agreements on past strategic errors difficult. Moreover, NATO’s focus on reaction over retrospection and a broader culture of blame aversion provided elites with little incentive to break the tradition of reliance on informal processes for memory development. Elites described feeling continuous pressure to react to the crisis at hand and treat past crises as unique – leaving little reason to invest in learning from past failures.


Author(s):  
Robert Wiśniewski

Christians always admired and venerated martyrs who died for their faith, but for a long time thought that the bodies of martyrs should remain undisturbed in their graves. Initially, the Christian attitude toward the bones of the dead, whether a saint’s or not, was that of respectful distance. This book tells how, in the mid-fourth century, this attitude started to change, swiftly and dramatically. The first chapters show the rise of new beliefs. They study how, when, and why Christians began to believe in the power of relics, first, over demons, then over physical diseases and enemies; how they sought to reveal hidden knowledge at the tombs of saints and why they buried the dead close to them. An essential element of this new belief was a strong conviction that the power of relics was transferred in a physical way and so subsequent chapters study relics as material objects. The book seeks to show what the contact with relics looked like and how close it was. Did people touch, kiss, or look at the very bones, or just at reliquaries which contained them? When did the custom of dividing relics appear? Finally, the book deals with discussions and polemics concerning relics and tries to find out how strong was the opposition which this new phenomenon had to face, both within and outside Christianity on the way to relics becoming an essential element of medieval religiosity.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1476718X2098385
Author(s):  
Alejandra Pacheco-Costa ◽  
Fernando Guzmán-Simón

Among the recent approaches to literacy incorporated into Literacy Studies, the concept of (im)materiality has enabled researchers to delve into the fluid and hybrid nature of contemporary literacy practices in early childhood. Our research explores the (im)materiality of literacy practices from the perspectives of space, screen mediation, artefacts and embodiment. The research focuses on the (im)material nature of the literacy practices carried out in different spaces, and its relevance in the making of meaning by children. The research method is based on an ethnographic approach. The results show the children’s embodiment of their literacy practices, and the way in which they create and interact with space and make meaning from their (im)material practices. These practices raise questions about their inclusion in current literacy development in schools.


Childhood ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 090756822094713
Author(s):  
Barbara Turk Niskač

The paper draws on ethnographic study and goes beyond dualistic understanding of work and play to investigate the complex world of social interactions among preschoolers. While adults viewed work as an educational process through which children’s personalities are shaped in a desired way, the children perceived work as a means of social interactions. Building on the theoretical framework of sociality and intersubjectivity, the paper suggests that work, play and learning can represent complementary aspects of human existence and living.


1952 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. K. C. Guthrie

I recently became aware that I had for a long time entertained certain preconceptions about the way in which Presocratic thinkers saw the world, without ever having seriously considered the evidence on which my belief was based. This I have now tried to do, with the results which are set forth in this paper. Since in any case it will deal, in a fairly general way, with problems concerning the interaction of philosophical and religious thought in early Greece, I hope it will have a certain interest, whether or not its readers agree with the thesis put forward. The perennial fascination of that topic has been enhanced in recent years by the discussion provoked by Werner Jaeger's book on The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers, from which I take this sentence as a kind of text for my own reflections: “Though philosophy means death to the old gods, it is itself religion.”


2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 269-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUMIT GUHA

AbstractThe past two decades have seen a dramatic renewal of interest in the subject of historical memory, its reproduction and transmission. But most studies have focused on the selection and construction of extant memories. This essay looks at missing memory as well. It seeks to broaden our understanding of memory by investigating the way in which historical memory significant to one historical tradition was slighted by another, even though the two overlapped both spatially and chronologically. It does this by an examination of how the memory of the Marathi-speaking peoples first neglected and then adopted the story of the Vijayanagara empire that once dominated southern India.


2021 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 175-179
Author(s):  
Liana Cusmano

Liana Cusmano’s interview with poet George Amabile focuses on his prize-winning 2018 collection Martial Music and the art of writing in general. He offers insights on the poetic process, how to research and produce a collection of poems. Amabile’s poetry is inspired by what he has experienced or witnessed. He talks about dealing with war and trauma. He shares his frustration with daily life getting in the way of the creative process. “Life is the subject and the inspirational/ motivational source of our work, but it also sucks up our time and frustrates our ability to give our unstinted attention to our creative efforts,” says George Amabile.


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