Encounters with materials in early childhood education / Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Sylvia Kind, and Laurie L.M. Kocher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica, author.

Kind, Silvia, author.

Kocher, Laurie L. M., 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Early childhood education--Activity programs.

Early childhood education.

Teaching--Aids and devices.

Teaching.

Physical Description:

viii, 92 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Contents:

1 Thinking With Materials 1

Eventful Material Relations 1

Materials in Early Childhood 2

The "Material Encounters in Early Childhood Education" Project 5

Inquiring Into Materiality 5

Experimentation 5

The Arts as Mode of Inquiry 7

The Studio 8

Encounters With Materials and the Reggie Emilia Project 10

Inviting Conversations Through Images 11

Diffraction as a Mode of Inquiry 14

Diffracting With Concepts 14

This Book's Entanglements With Paper, Charcoal. Paint, Clay, and Blocks 15

2 Paper: Movement 23

Singularity 25

The Movements of Making 26

Continuous Motion 27

Caught in the Currents 29

Surprise (Being Moved by the Materials) 30

Movement Across 30

Paper in Its Final Move 32

3 Charcoal: Encounter 33

To Meet 35

To Touch 37

To Attend 39

To Open 40

To Respond 42

4 Paint: Assemblage 45

Improvising 47

Emerging 48

Blending and Bleeding 50

Assembling 51

Creating 53

5 Clay: Ecologies 55

Clay in the Atrium Studio 56

Clay in the Forest 57

Clay at the River 57

Meso and Ethoecology 58

Attachments 59

It Matters 60

Fostering and Nourishing 61

Folding in 63

Ecologies of Practice 64

6 Blocks: Time 67

The Weight of Time 69

Playing With Time 71

Time as Lived 74

Time as Intensity 76

Transitory Spaces 78.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138821453

1138821454

9781138821460

1138821462

OCLC:

945730199