Play-Responsive Teaching in Early Childhood Education

• Main Author: Pramling, Niklas (auth)
• Other Authors: Wallerstedt, Cecilia (auth), Lagerlöf, Pernilla (auth), Björklund, Camilla (auth), Kultti, Anne (auth), Palmér, Hanna (auth), Magnusson, Maria (auth), Thulin, Susanne (auth), Jonsson, Agneta (auth), Pramling Samuelsson, Ingrid (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2019
• Series: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development
• Subjects: Language teaching & learning (other than ELT); Child & developmental psychology; Educational psychology; Pre-school & kindergarten; Teacher training; Education; Child development; Teaching; Education-Psychology; Child psychology; School psychology; Infant psychology; Language and languages-Study and teaching
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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.