Empowering Infants through Responsive and Intentional Play Activities

Autor/inn/en	Shin, Minsun; Partyka, Thomas
Titel	Empowering Infants through Responsive and Intentional Play Activities
Quelle	In: International Journal of Early Years Education, 25 (2017) 2, S.127-142 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0966-9760
DOI	10.1080/09669760.2017.1291331
Schlagwörter	Qualitative Research; Case Studies; Infants; Empowerment; Play; Preschool Teachers; Interviews; Observation; Learning Strategies; Child Development; Early Childhood Education; Video Technology; Activities; Planning; Student Needs; Developmentally Appropriate Practices; New Jersey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Qualitative Forschung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Spiel; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Beobachtung; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Kindesentwicklung; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Ablaufplanung; Planungsprozess; Entwicklungsbezogene Bildung
Abstract	This qualitative case study explored how an infant teacher provided meaningful learning experiences for infants through play and the teacher's educational rationale behind these experiences. Findings were based on multiple sources of data, including classroom observations (natural observation and videotaped observation) for approximately 12 weeks and a teacher interview. The findings confirmed that infant play is critical for infant learning and development and portrayed the process through which the infant teacher created play spaces for infants and supported infants' play through both pre-planned, teacher-directed, intentional activities, and child-initiated, emerging play activities. Our study highlighted that the designing of infant play and the learning process needs to be flexible and based on careful observation and reflection in order to meet the rapidly changing needs and interests of a group of infants as well as individual infants. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01