Methodology for research with early childhood education and care professionals : example studies and theoretical elaboration / Cecilia Wallerstedt, Eva Brooks, Elin Eriksen Ødegaard, Niklas Pramling, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wallerstedt, Cecilia, editor.

Brooks, Eva, editor.

Ødegaard, Elin Eriksen, editor.

Pramling, Niklas, editor.

Series:

International perspectives on early childhood education and development ; 2468-8754 v. 38.

International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development, 2468-8754 ; volume 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Early childhood education.

Early childhood educators.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 181 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, 2023.

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

This open access book addresses the growing trend in the field of early childhood education and care (ECEC) research named collaborative knowledge building in which researchers and ECEC personnel collaborate. This kind of research encompasses a number of approaches, such as design studies, action studies, Learning Studies, Lesson Studies, and combined research and development studies. There are important differences between these approaches, but they also share some features, which makes it possible to see them as examples of a particular tradition of knowledge building. Collaborative knowledge building constitutes close ties between developing practices of early childhood education and care, and generating empirically grounded theoretical knowledge. This book contributes to the methodology of practices-developing research by mapping this movement through exemplifying themes actualised in such studies, and through conceptualizing important and recurring gains and challenges. It also describes how the latter can be taken on.

Contents:

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Enabling knowledge development relevant for ECEC

Part II: Example studies

Chapter 2: A retrospective view on researchers' and preschool teachers' collaboration: The case of developing children's learning in preschool

Chapter 3: Exploring mixed roles and goals in collaborative research: The example of toddler mathematics education

Chapter 4: Managing the tension between the known and the unknown in knowledge-building: The example of the Play-Responsive Early Childhood Education and Care (PRECEC)

Chapter 5: Success of and barriers to workshop methodology: Experiences from Exploration and Pedagogical Innovation Laboratories (EX-PED-LAB)

Chapter 6: Opening up new spaces for action: Challenges of participatory action research for preschool practice transformation in an introductory unit for immigrant children

Chapter 7: Integrating digital technologies in teaching and learning through participation: Case studies from the Xlab Design, Learning, Innovation laboratory

Chapter 8: Interprofessional dialogue and the importance of contextualising children's participation: A collaboration between different disciplines round new technology

Chapter 9: Mutuality in collaboration: A development project for teaching in multilingual ECEC

Part III: Theoretical and conceptual discussions and tools

Chapter 10: The importance of de-reifying language in research with early childhood education and care professionals: A critical feature of workshop methodology

Chapter 11: Responding to wicked tensions and problems in practices-developing research

Chapter 12: Terminological and conceptual meta-commentaries on practices-developing research.

Notes:

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 8, 2022).

ISBN:

9783031145834

3031145836

OCLC:

1353790316

Access Restriction:

Open access.

Restricted for use by site license.