Creating a Classroom of Inquiry at the University of California at Berkeley: The Harold E. Jones Child Study Center
| Autor: | Jane Perry, Barbara Scales, Rebecca Tracy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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| Zdroj: | Early Education & Development. 23:165-180 |
| ISSN: | 1556-6935 1040-9289 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10409289.2012.651198 |
| Popis: | Research Findings: Three former teaching colleagues at the University of California's Harold E. Jones Child Study Center discuss an interpretative approach to child observation and assessment and how this approach was developed (1970s–2005) within this lab school's early childhood education setting. With teaching practice shaped and driven by a tradition of teacher research, they reconceptualized the classroom “learning centers” as social ecologies and studied children's play, learning, and development using interaction as the unit of analysis. In this approach, teachers create spaces for inquiry, observe, interpret, reflect on understandings, document and evaluate settings for learning, and formulate next steps. They report on and refine social ecologies from the point of view of the children while adapting to the full-time child care and preschool needs of university families. Practice and Policy: The authors of this paper focus in particular on details of classroom research they themselves conducted fr... |
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