Approaching the Complex Spatialities of Early Childhood Education and Care Systems from the Position of the Child

Autor/in	Bollig, Sabine
Titel	Approaching the Complex Spatialities of Early Childhood Education and Care Systems from the Position of the Child
Quelle	In: Journal of Pedagogy, 9 (2018) 1, S.155-176 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1338-1563
DOI	10.2478/jped-2018-0008
Schlagwörter	Early Childhood Education; Child Care; Childhood Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Time; Preschool Children; Language Usage; School Space; Luxembourg + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Ausland; Zeit; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Sprachgebrauch; Schulraum
Abstract	This paper proposes a way to understand what early care and education systems look like from the vantage point of the child. In other words, it aims to fuse a system perspective and a child perspective of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in a way that acknowledges children as active co-producers of ECEC landscapes. In developing this approach, I emphasize that children's individual education and care arrangements which combine certain ECEC settings and the family are to be understood as networks of relations. As such, these child, family and ECEC relations create particular spatialities and temporalities which in turn position children very differently within the field of early education and care. To conceptualize how this takes place in children's everyday activities, I refer to Schatzki's and Massey's relational thinking about practices, spaces, time and multiple identities with special emphasis on the spatial relations that are 'beyond' certain localities and (re)produced in the 'events of place.' How this helps to understand the ways in which ECEC systems look from the position of the child will get exemplified in regard to Luxembourg's complex 'double split system' of ECEC and its complex language terrain. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01