Encounters with Materials in Early Childhood Education rearticulates understandings of materials—blocks of clay, sheets of paper, brushes and paints—to formulate what happens when we think with materials and apply them to early childhood development and classrooms. The book develops ways of thinking about materials that are more sustainable and insightful than what most children in the Western world experience today through capitalist narratives. Through a series of ethnographic events and engagement with existing ideas of relationality in the visual arts, feminist ethics, science studies, philosophy, and anthropology, Encounters with Materials in Early Childhood Education highlights how materials can be conceptualized as active participants in early childhood education and generators of human insight. A variety of examples show how educators, young children, and researchers have engaged in thinking with materials in early years classrooms and explore what materials are capable of in their encounters with other materials and with children. Please visit the companion website at www.encounterswithmaterials.com for additional features, including interviews with the authors and the teachers featured in the book, videos and photographs of the classroom narratives described in these pages, and an ongoing blog of the authors’ ethnographic notes.
| ISBN: | 9781138821453 |
| Publication date: | 22nd September 2016 |
| Author: | Veronica Western University, Canada PaciniKetchabaw, Sylvia Capilano University, Canada Kind, Laurie L M Capila Kocher |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 92 pages |
| Genres: |
Education Pre-school and kindergarten Teaching skills and techniques Pre-school and kindergarten Teaching skills and techniques |
Encounters with Materials in Early Childhood Education rearticulates understandings of materials—blocks of clay, sheets of paper, brushes and paints—to formulate what happens when we think with materials and apply them to early childhood development and classrooms. The book develops ways of thinking about materials that are more sustainable and insightful than what most children in the Western world experience today through capitalist narratives. Through a series of ethnographic events and engagement with existing ideas of relationality in the visual arts, feminist ethics, science studies, philosophy, and anthropology, Encounters with Materials in Early Childhood Education highlights how materials can be conceptualized as active participants in early childhood education and generators of human insight. A variety of examples show how educators, young children, and researchers have engaged in thinking with materials in early years classrooms and explore what materials are capable of in their encounters with other materials and with children. Please visit the companion website at www.encounterswithmaterials.com for additional features, including interviews with the authors and the teachers featured in the book, videos and photographs of the classroom narratives described in these pages, and an ongoing blog of the authors’ ethnographic notes.
Encounters With Materials in Early Childhood Education features in the following genres: Education, Pre-school and kindergarten, Teaching skills and techniques, Pre-school and kindergarten, Teaching skills and techniques
Encounters With Materials in Early Childhood Education is available in Hardback
Encounters With Materials in Early Childhood Education was written by Veronica Western University, Canada PaciniKetchabaw, Sylvia Capilano University, Canada Kind, Laurie L M Capila Kocher and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Encounters With Materials in Early Childhood Education has 92 pages