Methodology for Research with Early Childhood Education and Care Professionals Example Studies and Theoretical Elaboration

• Other Authors: Wallerstedt, Cecilia (Editor), Brooks, Eva (Editor), Eriksen Ødegaard, Elin (Editor), Pramling, Niklas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2023
• Series: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development 38
• Subjects: Pre-school & kindergarten; Education; practice-developing research; researcher-teacher collaborative knowledge building; inter-professions collaboration; practice based mathematics education research; toddlers' mathematical development in Swedish preschools; metacognitive approach to children's learning; Research-practice collaboration; Competence development; preschool education for immigrant children; knowledge creating practices in partnership research; Play-responsive teaching; practice-based research; foundational ethos of collaboration; participatory-driven creative learning; teachers as agents in the research process; interprofessional dialogue (MIROR); de-reifying language in research
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This open access book addresses the growing trend in the field of early childhood education and care (ECEC) research named collaborative knowledge building in which researchers and ECEC personnel collaborate. This kind of research encompasses a number of approaches, such as design studies, action studies, Learning Studies, Lesson Studies, and combined research and development studies. There are important differences between these approaches, but they also share some features, which makes it possible to see them as examples of a particular tradition of knowledge building. Collaborative knowledge building constitutes close ties between developing practices of early childhood education and care, and generating empirically grounded theoretical knowledge. This book contributes to the methodology of practices-developing research by mapping this movement through exemplifying themes actualised in such studies, and through conceptualizing important and recurring gains and challenges. It also describes how the latter can be taken on.