Voicing Early Years Teachers' Subjective Experiences through Maurice Sendak's "Outside Over There"

Autor/in	Chang-Kredl, Sandra
Titel	Voicing Early Years Teachers' Subjective Experiences through Maurice Sendak's "Outside Over There"
Quelle	In: Children's Literature in Education, 44 (2013) 2, S.174-190 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0045-6713
DOI	10.1007/s10583-012-9188-x
Schlagwörter	Childrens Literature; Twentieth Century Literature; Picture Books; Preschool Teachers; Reader Response; Content Analysis; Focus Groups; Group Discussion + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Picture book; Bilderbuch; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Leserbrief; Inhaltsanalyse; Gruppendiskussion
Abstract	In this article, I present a narrative conversation that combines six teachers' responses to Maurice Sendak's picture book, "Outside Over There" (1981) with my own responses to their discussions and to the book. The purpose of this research is three-fold: first, to examine how children's literature can be used to evoke reflections in early years teachers on how they make sense of their work with children; second, to conduct a close and shared reading of Sendak's elusive story; and third, to experiment with a dialogic, narrative form of representation. Using a qualitative form of reader response and text analysis, I assembled content from a focus group discussion held with six early years teachers, in which they discussed Sendak's book, "Outside Over There", and combined data from their responses with my own readings. Sendak's goblins, the lead protagonist of "Outside Over There", Ida, Ida's family, and the phrasing of "outside over there" provided symbols around which the teachers discussed their professional vulnerabilities, including their subjective experiences of being undervalued in society. The picture book's defamiliarizing effect helped the teachers question their own difficult emotions in realizing themselves within the broader field of education, and offered tools with which they could articulate the value of their "demanding internal adventures" (Cech, Angels and Wild Things: The Archetypal Poetics of Maurice Sendak, 1995, p. 237). (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10