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Posted by admin on Apr 21, 2022 8:30:00 AM In this month’s Something to Talk About blog post, Haeny Yoon writes about finding freedom in classroom spaces and reimagining what it truly means to think outside of the box in school. My six-year-old niece brought home a worksheet from school that said, “Think Outside the…
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Source: The Play of Art: Propensity and Pedagogy in Contemporary Chinese Early Childhood Education: Studies in Art Education: Vol 62, No 3
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Source: Full article: Drag pedagogy: The playful practice of queer imagination in early childhood
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The role of play in education is a multifaceted narrative often overlooked in traditional educational settings, which emphasize academic rigor over experiential learning. However, a closer examination reveals a more nuanced reality: students and teachers, despite the constraints of formal education, find ways to integrate play into their learning journeys, curriculum, and pedagogy. This research…
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This paper draws data from a 5-year ethnographic study of young multilingual (Mixteco/Spanish/English) children in their early childhood classrooms. In this paper, we focus on two of the children a…
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Within the context of a common school activity, this study exam- ined the meanings young children express in talk, pictures, and written text, focusing on how children draw upon all three in one composing event. Data collection took place an average of twice per week over a five-month period in a public school kindergarten. Collected…
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Studying Children’s Social and Textual Lives – Appropriated and Disputed Heroes The Blobs and the X-People – New Perspectives on Old Representations The Trials and Tribulations of Emily and Other Media Misses – Text as Dialogic Medium The Coming of Venus Tina – Texts as Markers and Mediators of Tough Talking Kids Transformed and Silenced…
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In this article the author draws on two years of research in English immersion classes to present a detailed portrait of a rich language and literacy activity for young English-language learners (ELLs). The activity, daily news, fostered ELL students’ enthusiastic participation and created an excellent context for the teachers to scaffold the students’ oral language…
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What are the real “basics” of writing, how should they be taught, and what do they look like in children’s worlds? In her new book, Anne Haas Dyson shows how highly scripted writing curricula and regimented class routines work against young children’s natural social learning processes. Readers will have a front-row seat in Mrs. Bee’s…
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Drawing on data from a yearlong qualitative study of a primary-grade English immersion class of Spanish-dominant Latina and Latino students, the author analyzes bilingual children’s acts of translation during classroom activities. After pointing out the numerous positive benefits that resulted from these acts, the author suggests that encouraging bilingual students to engage in translation in…
