scholarly journals Slaughtering a cow in early childhood education: Pedagogic meetings with destruction as change

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa K. Aslanian ◽  
Anna Moxnes

This article explores the concept of change in education through an examination of the entangled processes of destruction and creation made visible during a Norwegian kindergarten’s tradition of participating in a cow-slaughter in its local community.  The article offers a methodological exploration, activating the theoretical perspectives of relational ontology, plasticity and critical animal studies. We present the event as a narrative and analyze it through these three perspectives, with special attention paid to unintentional change and change as an ontological concept. The discussion illuminates how children grasped destruction as change through creativity and play, and how ethical complexities are entangled with education, animal-based food production, traditions, play, and research.

Author(s):  
Mzoli Mncanca ◽  
Chinedu Okeke

This meta-analysis drew statistical data from the Victims of Crimes Survey (VOCS) and gleaned empirical insights from the literature to present a comprehensive discussion about the extent of early childhood exposure to domestic violence and the effects on children's developmental trajectories. Bandura's social learning theory and the intergenerational transmission of violence were adopted as guiding theoretical perspectives to highlight the dangers of early exposure to violence and to elucidate the importance of raising children in safe and stable homes and schooling environments. Findings show that many South African children are severely affected by domestic violence, with far-reaching implications for their future holistic development and life chances. The chapter recommends that universities should ensure their early childhood education qualifications are socially relevant and contextually grounded. Similarly, practitioners should initiate and play a leading role in multi-stakeholder preventive interventions on domestic violence.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-137
Author(s):  
Victoria Sullivan ◽  
Laetitia Coles ◽  
Yuwei Xu ◽  
Francisco Perales ◽  
Karen Thorpe

Theoretical perspectives, and a large body of empirical research examining sex-segregated occupations, identify the attitudinal barriers of the majority as pivotal for both workplace well-being and the retention of minorities. Globally, where more than 90% of the early childhood education and care workforce is female, understanding the attitudes of the majority is critical in informing actions to sustain men’s participation. So too are female educators’ understanding, acceptance and responses to the attitudes of other key stakeholders. The extent to which decisions in the workplace reflect personal, organisational or parent perspectives is not well understood. In this study, the authors analyse interview data from the female majority to distinguish personal voice and attributed beliefs regarding the inclusion of men in the early childhood education and care workplace. They analyse interview data from 96 women working as educators in a representative sample of long-day-care and kindergarten services in Queensland, Australia. The analyses suggest that the view of male educators as assets was claimed, while concerns about risk or competency were typically attributed to others. Attributed views were not often contested, but instead accepted or excused. The findings suggest that while the inclusion of men in the early childhood education and care workforce is explicitly accepted by female colleagues, actions within the workforce may be influenced by the attitudes of those outside or by latent personal attitudes distanced by positioning as the voice of others.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-230
Author(s):  
Bayu Suratman ◽  
Mahmud Arif

This article discusses how Sambas Malay parents carry out ethnoparenting and early childhood education to early childhood. Sambas Malay society are relatively traditional who still maintain the value system embraced by the local community. Ethnoparenting in this paper has the meaning of parenting performed by a particular ethnicity or tribe through the culture adopted. This research was conducted by the qualitative method through a sociological approach to education. The data was obtained through interviews and in-depth observations in Batu Makjage Village, Tebas District, Sambas Regency, West Kalimantan Province. Some habitus in ethnoparenting Sambas Malay society in educating early childhood include tunjuk ajar, pantang larang, kemponan and any tradition. Obstacles in ethnoparenting in the form of contestation of the value of Sambas Malay culture with modernity. The contestation that occurred experienced dislocation and resulted in the social change of Sambas Malay society and changed the habitus and urban lifestyle that has dominated in the ethnoparenting of Sambas Malay society.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Marina Sounoglou ◽  
Aikaterini Michalopoulou

This study examines the human rights and the notion of citizenship under the prism of pedagogical science. The methodology that was followed was the experimental method. In a sample of 100 children-experimental group and control group held an intervention program with deepening axes of human rights and the concept of citizenship. The analysis of the findings presented in four axes. The first relates to the analysis of the responses of the two groups using quantitative data. The second axis concerns the discourse analysis of children’s responses. The third axis relates to involve children and the fourth in the pop up program of children’s activities. In conclusion, according to the survey results, children may affect their participation shaping the curriculum at micro level but also affect their behavior in the macro. Children seem to understand a pedagogical context the concept of human rights and the concept of citizenship in their ability to influence the school and not only the daily life, respect the wishes of others, to understand the limits and restrictions in school and local community, their participation as a social obligation but also a right, to the understanding of human rights and children’s rights as a premise for the quality of their lives.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Anne Mette Buus

ResuméMetoder deklareret som evidensbaserede vinder frem i danske daginstitutioner båret af politiske ambitioner om en pædagogik baseret på videnskabelig viden om, hvad der virker. Evidensbegrebet anvendes i denne sammenhæng til at signalere, at effekten af en specifik indsats er målt med en videnskabelig præcision, der gør det muligt at forudsige dens virkning, uanset hvor den anvendes. Artiklen har som formål at udfordre en sådan forståelse af evidens og som alternativ at tilbyde en forståelse af evidens som et fænomen, der konstitueres og virker som del af en situeret politisk, social og kulturel praksis. Med afsæt i empiri fra et etnografisk feltarbejde og inspiration fra Aktør-Netværk-Teori undersøges i artiklen, hvordan den evidensbaserede metode De Utrolige År tildeles relevans og handlekraft på en national konference om evidens, til undervisning i metoden og i en børnehave. I disse sammenhænge stabiliseres metoden i kraft af sin status som evidensbaseret som en hensigtsmæssig del af en dansk småbørnspædagogik. De stabiliserende kræfter er ikke specifikke forskningsdesigns eller forskningsresultater men derimod attraktive og statusgivende rationaler og identiteter, som tildeler pædagogikken optimisme og status. Artiklen peger på, hvordan en evidensbaseret metode som et magtfuldt og virksomt fænomen i en dansk småbørnspædagogik ikke bliver til og virker i kraft af en iboende kvalitet, men er et resultat af metodens forbindelser til aktører af både politisk, ideologisk, emotionel og materiel art. AbstractEvidence-based methods are becoming increasingly widespread in Danish early childhood education driven by political ambitions about a pedagogy based on scientific studies about “what works”. The concept of evidence signals a scientific precision that makes it possible to predict a specific outcome. Such assumptions are challenged in this paper, and an alternative perspective is offered, inspired by theoretical perspectives from Actor-Network-Theory and data from ethnographical fieldwork. Through an analysis of the evidence-based method “The Incredible Years” in three different contexts, the paper explores how evidence-based methods are stabilized as the right and only thing to do. In these contexts, evidence is not linked to research results or relevance criteria but to attractive rationalities and identities which assigns optimism and power to early childhood education. As such the paper argues that evidence as a dominant part of Danish early childhood education is not the result of an essential quality, but the result of multiple other actors of various kinds - political, ideological, emotional, and material.


Author(s):  
Elizabeth R. Wynberg ◽  
Annerieke Boland ◽  
Maartje E. J. Raijmakers ◽  
Chiel van der Veen

AbstractThe exploration and/or manipulation of objects and materials, referred to as object-oriented play (OOP), is one of the most prominent activities children engage in during early childhood. Especially within early childhood education, it is important to be able to assess and understand OOP, its developmental trajectory, and developmental value. This can support early childhood educators to successfully guide or enrich children’s OOP, so it becomes a context in which learning can take place. During the past decades, three dominant theoretical perspectives have explained and assessed certain (developmental) aspects of OOP: (1) genetic epistemology, (2) cultural historical psychology, and (3) evolutionary psychology. After reviewing the literature concerning OOP according to each theoretical perspective, this paper aims to synthesize these existing theories into a unified theoretical framework. This theoretical framework can be a starting point for future research on OOP in early childhood (education). We answer the following research questions: Q1. What are the defining labels and features of the exploration and/or manipulation of objects and materials by children in early childhood?; Q2. What is the developmental trajectory of the exploration and/or manipulation of objects and materials by children in early childhood?; Q3. What is the developmental value of the exploration and/or manipulation of objects and materials by children in early childhood?


2020 ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Teresa K. Aslanian ◽  
Anna Rigmor Moxnes

This article explores children’s play with representations of animals, specifically the Holstein cow, as noninnocent care practices in the context of early childhood education and care environments. We use Barad’s relational ontology and Chaudhuri’s concept of zooësis to activate a temporal diffractive analysis of memory stories about children’s play with cows in ECEC read through facts from past, present, and future livestock-rearing practices. We connect the joy of playing with representations of nonhuman animals to the responsibility associated with multispecies lives, and to care as the production of flourishing.


1979 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Susan Freedman Gilbert

This paper describes the referral, diagnostic, interventive, and evaluative procedures used in a self-contained, behaviorally oriented, noncategorical program for pre-school children with speech and language impairments and other developmental delays.


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