An Investigation into Children's Agency: Children's Initiatives and Practitioners' Responses in Finnish Early Childhood Education

Autor/inn/en	Sairanen, Heidi; Kumpulainen, K.; Kajamaa, A.
Titel	An Investigation into Children's Agency: Children's Initiatives and Practitioners' Responses in Finnish Early Childhood Education
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 192 (2022) 1, S.112-123 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sairanen, Heidi) ORCID (Kumpulainen, K.) ORCID (Kajamaa, A.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2020.1739030
Schlagwörter	Preschool Teachers; Ethnography; Video Technology; Early Childhood Education; Child Care Centers; Personal Autonomy; Foreign Countries; Preschool Children; Teacher Student Relationship; Interaction Process Analysis; Play; Participatory Research; Teaching Methods; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Ethnografie; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Child care facilities; Child care services; Kinderzentrum; Kinderbetreuung; Individuelle Autonomie; Ausland; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Prozessanalyse; Spiel; Forschungstätigkeit; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Finnland
Abstract	This paper investigates adult-child interaction in the early years of education. The intention is to understand how children's initiatives and practitioners' responses support and/or hinder children's agency. Our ethnographic data include 150 h of video data supplemented by observational field notes from a Finnish Early Childhood Education (ECE) centre with eight five-year-old children and two ECE practitioners. The video data were analysed abductively by using an Interaction Analysis method. The children's initiatives were found to manifest in several modes, namely asking a question, suggesting, challenging, refusing and ideating. The responses to these initiatives by the ECE practitioners included accepting, accepting after a rejection, adapting, rejecting or ignoring. The analysis points to ways in which adult-child relationships are negotiated in everyday activities, showing the relational nature of agency and suggesting that the ways in which adult engages in the child's initiations are an intricate part of children's agency. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01