Playing, early learning and meaning making: early childhood curriculum unfolding
Playing, early learning and meaning making: early childhood curriculum unfolding
Author
Makovichuk, Lee
Lirette, Patricia
Hewes, Jane
Aamot, Brittany
Faculty Advisor
Date
2017
Keywords
children , play , curriculum
Abstract (summary)
Play, Participation, and Possibilities: An Early
Learning and Child Care Curriculum Framework for
Alberta is a sociocultural curriculum framework
intended to provoke dialogue on and thinking about
young children’s playing and learning. Viewing curriculum as situated, contested and always-already
happening in early childhood programs, the authors
draw on a mini-narrative of children’s play and educator
practices to make visible what it means to co-construct
curriculum in the here and now with young children.
They describe curriculum-meaning-making processes
that support deep and further complexified thinking,
including pedagogical dialogue, critical revisiting of
pedagogical documentation and curriculum crosschecking.
Through honouring young children as mighty
learners and citizens, and co-imagining possibilities,
multiple new potentialities for children’s play and
learning are revealed.
Publication Information
Makovichuk, L., Lirette, P., Hewes, J. & Aamot, B. (2017). Playing, early learning and meaning making: Early childhood curriculum unfolding. Early Childhood Education Journal, 44(2), pp. 3-10. Edmonton, AB: Alberta Teachers Association (ATA).
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Item Type
Article
Language
English
Rights
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