Doing Friendship during the Second Year of Life in a Swedish Preschool

Autor/in	Engdahl, Ingrid
Titel	Doing Friendship during the Second Year of Life in a Swedish Preschool
Quelle	In: European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 20 (2012) 1, S.83-98 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1350-293X
DOI	10.1080/1350293X.2012.650013
Schlagwörter	Video Technology; Early Childhood Education; Preschool Children; Friendship; Interpersonal Competence; Foreign Countries; Toddlers; Observation; Ethnography; Phenomenology; Play; Motor Reactions; Child Behavior; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Freundschaft; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Ausland; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Beobachtung; Ethnografie; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Spiel; Schweden
Abstract	A number of studies within early childhood education and care indicate the importance of social competence. This article focuses on how friendship is created among very young children in Swedish preschools. The study was carried out within a toddler unit with 15 children. Six 1-year-old children, three girls and three boys, were observed during nine months. The ethnographic method follows a phenomenological tradition with participatory observations, including field notes, photos and video recordings. The findings show how young toddlers create friendships: 1-year-olds monitor and pay attention to individual peers, displaying intentionality and agency by spontaneously greeting their peers, by offering play invitations, and by helping peers. Mutual awareness, joint attention, shared smiles, coordinated locomotion, as well as other types of synchronized actions are parts of non-verbal elements in emerging friendship. One pedagogical implication of this study is to take young children's friendship into account when putting together preschool groups. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10