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Play-Responsive Teaching in Early Childhood Education

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  1. Niklas Pramling

    1. Department of Education, Communication & Learning, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden

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  2. Cecilia Wallerstedt

    1. Department of Education, Communication & Learning, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden

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  3. Pernilla Lagerlöf

    1. Department of Education, Communication & Learning, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden

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  4. Camilla Björklund

    1. Department of Education, Communication & Learning, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden

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  5. Anne Kultti

    1. Department of Education, Communication & Learning, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden

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  6. Hanna Palmér

    1. Department of Mathematics, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

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  7. Maria Magnusson

    1. Department of Education & Teachers’ Practice, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden

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  8. Susanne Thulin

    1. Faculty of Education, Kristianstad University College, Kristianstad, Sweden

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  9. Agneta Jonsson

    1. Faculty of Education, Kristianstad University College, Kristianstad, Sweden

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  10. Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson

    1. Department of Education, Communication & Learning, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden

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  • Provides a novel conception of teaching in early childhood education as inherently responsive to play

  • Presents a close collaboration with preschool teachers, heads, and development leaders

  • Is thoroughly empirically grounded in research in naturalistic environments

  • Covers a wide variety of play activities and all ages of children in Swedish preschool

Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 26)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Developing Play-responsive Didaktik – Mission Impossible?

      • Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.
      Pages 3-16Open Access

    3. Learning, Teaching, and Didaktik

      • Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.
      Pages 17-29Open Access

    4. Playing, Playworlds, and Early Childhood Education

      • Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.
      Pages 31-54Open Access

    5. A Combined Research and Development Project

      • Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.
      Pages 55-71Open Access

  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. The Lava-Shark: Teachers Attempting to Enter Children’s Play

      • Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.
      Pages 75-86Open Access

    3. The Lion and the Mouse: How and Why Teachers Succeed in Becoming Participants in Children’s Ongoing Play

      • Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.
      Pages 87-96Open Access

    4. Goldilocks and Her Motorcycle: Establishing Narrative Frames

      • Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.
      Pages 97-109Open Access

    5. The Triangle-Lady and Billy Goats Gruff: Constituting Contents for Learning in Play

      • Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.
      Pages 111-127Open Access

    6. When Kroko-the-Crocodile Got Sick

      • Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.
      Pages 129-136Open Access

    7. The Magical Fruits: Establishing a Narrative Play Frame for Mutual Problem Solving

      • Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.
      Pages 137-151Open Access

    8. The Letter Thief: From Playing to Teaching to Learning to Playing

      • Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.
      Pages 153-164Open Access

  4. Part III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. A Play-responsive Early Childhood Education didaktik

      • Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér et al.
      Pages 167-183Open Access
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About this book

This open access book develops a theoretical concept of teaching that is relevant to early childhood education, and based on children’s learning and development through play. It discusses theoretical premises and research on playing and learning, and proposes the development of play-responsive didaktik.  It examines the processes and products of learning and development, teaching and its phylogenetic and ontogenetic development, as well as the ‘what’ of learning and didaktik. Next, it explores the actions, objects and meaning of play and provides insight into the diversity of beliefs about the practices of play. The book presents ideas on how combined research and development projects can be carried out, providing incentive and a model for practice development and research. The second part of the book consists of empirical studies on teacher’s playing skills and examples of play with very young as well as older children.



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Keywords

  • Open Access
  • developing play-responsive didaktik
  • playing, playworlds, and early childhood education
  • teachers' playing skills
  • teachers participating in children's play
  • folktales providing frameworks for playing
  • narrative play frame for mutual problem solving
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Education, Communication & Learning, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden

    Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson

  • Department of Mathematics, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

    Hanna Palmér

  • Department of Education & Teachers’ Practice, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden

    Maria Magnusson

  • Faculty of Education, Kristianstad University College, Kristianstad, Sweden

    Susanne Thulin, Agneta Jonsson

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