Talking with Feeling: Using Bion to Theorise 'Work Discussion' as a Model of Professional Reflection with Nursery Practitioners

Autor/inn/en	Elfer, Peter; Wilson, Dilys
Titel	Talking with Feeling: Using Bion to Theorise 'Work Discussion' as a Model of Professional Reflection with Nursery Practitioners
Quelle	In: Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 31 (2023) 1, S.165-183 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-1366
DOI	10.1080/14681366.2021.1895290
Schlagwörter	Child Caregivers; Caregiver Attitudes; Work Attitudes; Preschools; Group Discussion; Psychological Patterns; Anxiety; Reflection + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Gruppendiskussion; Angst
Abstract	Making sensitive pedagogic relationships in the nursery is a deeply human activity evoking joy and satisfaction, but stress and uncertainty too. From an international perspective, strong local reflective spaces are required if early childhood provision is to be culturally and context responsive, counter-balancing globalising pressure to standardise provision. Further, nursery practitioners are entitled to a formal space where their subjective experience of the work, its demands and dilemma, can be expressed and understood. This paper is about 'Work Discussion' (WD) as such a reflective space. Professional reflection is now included in early years policy frameworks internationally for the reasons above. WD, distinctive in including explicit attention to emotion in pedagogy, is one model of a reflective space. This paper arises from a longitudinal evaluation of WD in nursery funded by the Froebel Trust. The methodology of the evaluation and the positive findings of impact for children have already been published. The aim of this paper is to theorise WD, drawing on the work of Wilfried Bion, a psychoanalyst and theorist of thinking in groups. Empirical data if offered to illustrate the explanatory power of Bion's theory including what may be discussed openly and what is avoided in pedagogic reflection. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01