Play-Responsive Teaching in Early Childhood Education (International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development Book 26)

This open access book develops a theoretical concept of teaching that is relevant to early childhood education, and based on children’s learning and development through play. It discusses theoretical premises and research on playing and learning, and proposes the development of play-responsive __didaktik__. It examines the processes and products of learning and development, teaching and its phylogenetic and ontogenetic development, as well as the ‘what’ of learning and __didaktik.__ Next, it explores the actions, objects and meaning of play and provides insight into the diversity of beliefs about the practices of play. The book presents ideas on how combined research and development projects can be carried out, providing incentive and a model for practice development and research. The second part of the book consists of empirical studies on teacher’s playing skills and examples of play with very young as well as older children. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Developing Play-responsive Didaktik – Mission Impossible? (Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.)....Pages 3-16 Learning, Teaching, and Didaktik (Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.)....Pages 17-29 Playing, Playworlds, and Early Childhood Education (Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.)....Pages 31-54 A Combined Research and Development Project (Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.)....Pages 55-71 Front Matter ....Pages 73-73 The Lava-Shark: Teachers Attempting to Enter Children’s Play (Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.)....Pages 75-86 The Lion and the Mouse: How and Why Teachers Succeed in Becoming Participants in Children’s Ongoing Play (Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.)....Pages 87-96 Goldilocks and Her Motorcycle: Establishing Narrative Frames (Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.)....Pages 97-109 The Triangle-Lady and Billy Goats Gruff: Constituting Contents for Learning in Play (Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.)....Pages 111-127 When Kroko-the-Crocodile Got Sick (Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.)....Pages 129-136 The Magical Fruits: Establishing a Narrative Play Frame for Mutual Problem Solving (Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.)....Pages 137-151 The Letter Thief: From Playing to Teaching to Learning to Playing (Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.)....Pages 153-164 Front Matter ....Pages 165-165 A Play-responsive Early Childhood Education didaktik (Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.)....Pages 167-183