Deunk2022

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Deunk2022
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Deunk2022
Author(s) Marjolein i. Deunk, Myrte n. Gosen, Frans Hiddink, Jan Berenst
Title Literacy
Editor(s) Amelia Church, Amanda Bateman
Tag(s) EMCA, early childhood, teacher education, early literacy
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year 2022
Language English
City Cambridge
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Journal
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Pages 165–184
URL Link
DOI 10.1017/9781108979764.009
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Organization
Institution
School
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Edition
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Howpublished
Book title Talking with Children: A Handbook of Interaction in Early Childhood Education
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Abstract

In education settings for very young children, both theoretically and empirically, adults’ institutional role and pedagogical practice in relation to children’s play is traditionally tied to education and caring, such as maintaining classroom order or providing emotional availability and con?ict resolution. Most of these institutional roles are positioned outside the actual play frame. Thus, detailed empirical descriptions of the adult as an equal co-player in a multi-party peer context are scarce. This chapter examines play in adult-child interaction. The role of the adult in initiating and maintaining playful encounters with very young children in a multi-party context is of particular interest. The pedagogical contribution of the chapter is to facilitate early childhood education practitioners’ use of playful encounters in relation to emotional education. Three empirical extracts reveal how adult conduct can shape opportunities for multi-party, emotionally heightened playful encounters in toddler classrooms. Overall, the chapter shows how conversation analysis can encourage dialogue with theory and practice by providing a more detailed picture of practices that are described in professional stocks of interactional knowledge such as curricula and frameworks in early childhood education.

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