1st Edition
Pedagogies for Children's Perspectives
Laurie Kocher is a Faculty member in the Department of Early Childhood Care and Education, Capilano University, Canada.
Catherine Patterson is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Early Childhood, Department of Educational Studies, Macquarie University, Australia.
About the Series Editors and Contributors
Preface: Introducing the focus, Michael Reed and Alma Fleet
Section 1: Being Alongside Children
Chapter 1: Young children’s perspectives of the material learning environment, Alison Clark and Solveig Nordtømme
Chapter 2: ‘It will be difficult to practice something we don’t know how to do.’ Listening to children as they transition to school, Sara M. Ólafsdóttir and Jóhanna Einarsdóttir
Chapter 3: ‘Can you shout a little louder?’ Listening and hearing children’s voices through play, Natalie Canning Editorial provocations: Engaging readers and extending thinking, Catherine Patterson and Laurie Kocher
Section 2: Those Who Educate
Chapter 4: Children and families outside the mainstream: Ensuring inclusion for all, Katey De Gioia and Marina Papic
Chapter 5: Lingering in artistic spaces: Becoming attuned to children’s processes and perspectives through the early childhood studio, Sylvia Kind, Tahmina Shayan and Cheryl Cameron
Chapter 6: Teachers learning to recognize the voice of the child, Derval Carey Jenkins Editorial provocations: Engaging readers and extending thinking, Catherine Patterson and Laurie Kocher
Section 3: Embedding Families and Communities
Chapter 7: Project Work as a tool for intercultural pedagogy, João Formosinho, Júlia Oliveira-Formosinho and Hélia Costa
Chapter 8: ‘No one ever listens to me, not even my daddy.’ Listening to children described as having ‘special educational needs’ and disabilities (SEND), Caroline Jones
Chapter 9: Working with and listening to families, Josephine Bleach Editorial provocations: Engaging readers and extending thinking, Catherine Patterson and Laurie Kocher
Section 4: Working with Systems
Chapter 10: Leadership of professional learning – essential for innovation and change, Kaye Colmer
Chapter 11: Upholding children’s rights in a landscape of legislation, regulations, curriculum frameworks, accreditation, teacher standards and policies, Wendy Shepherd
Chapter 12: When dialogue transforms a system: Dynamic democratic systems that listen, Randa Khattar and Karyn Callaghan Editorial provocations: Engaging readers and extending thinking, Catherine Patterson and Laurie Kocher
Coda: Thinking forward, Alma Fleet and Michael Reed
Biography
Laurie Kocher is a faculty member in the Department of Early Childhood Care and Education, Capilano University, Canada.
Catherine Patterson is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Early Childhood, Department of Educational Studies, Macquarie University, Australia.
