Literature and philosophical play in early childhood education : a humanities based approach to research and practice / Viktor Johansson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johansson, Viktor, 1979- author.

Series:

New directions in the philosophy of education series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Early childhood education--Philosophy.

Early childhood education.

Physical Description:

vii, 139 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"Literature and Philosophical Play in Early Childhood Education explores the role of philosophy and the humanities as pedagogy in early childhood educational research and practice, arguing that research should attend to questions about education and growth that concern social structures, individual development and existential aspects of learning. It demonstrates how we can think of pedagogy and educational practices in early childhood as artistic, poetic and philosophical, and exemplifies a humanities-based approach by giving literature and artful play a place in shaping the ground of practice and research"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: there are stories

The state of the learning soul: literature and in and as educational research

An entangled life with children's existential perplexity

Platonic caves, educational lies, and good enough mothering

Fiction and reality in children's artful play

Passionate immediacy and dinosaur philosophy

Wildly wise in the terrible moment

A plea for a literary posthumanism between theory, narrative, and life

The motherly poetry of pedagogy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Johansson, Viktor, 1979- author. Literature and philosophical play in early childhood education

ISBN:

9780815378389

0815378386

OCLC:

1077481900