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Children’s participation rights in early childhood education and care: the case of early literacy learning and pedagogy

Dunphy, Elizabeth (2012) Children’s participation rights in early childhood education and care: the case of early literacy learning and pedagogy. International Journal of Early Years Education, 20 (3). pp. 290-299. ISSN 0966-9760

Abstract
This position article argues that educators’ knowledge of young children’s perspectives on aspects of early learning, including literacy learning, and subsequent interpretations of the ways that these perspectives can inform and shape pedagogy are key to promoting children’s participation rights in early childhood education and care. Drawing on ideas such as guided participation and Bruner’s notion of a pedagogy of mutuality, it is argued that pedagogy, as it is now understood, implies that children’s participation is central to the task of teaching. It is also argued that explicit articulation of the concept of joint participation in relation to literacy curricula and pedagogy in early childhood is warranted. The latter part of the article raises the issue of the diversity of children’s perspectives of literacy learning and pedagogy. There follows a discussion of some of the issues related to working with young children’s perspectives on literacy.
Metadata
Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:children’s perspectives; early literacy; multimodal representations; pedagogy; children’s participation
Subjects:Social Sciences > Education
Social Sciences > Teaching
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Institute of Education > School of Language, Literacy, & Early Childhood Education
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Official URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09669760.2012.716700
Copyright Information:© 2010 Taylor & Francis This is an electronic version of an article published in International Journal of Early Years Education and is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09669760.2012.716700
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:21500
Deposited On:07 Dec 2016 16:50 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 02 Mar 2022 12:59
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