SYMP 037 - Participation, identity, and leadership: A three-pronged exploration of agency in early childhood education
Themes:
1.2 Children’s development and childhood1.3 Learning, knowledge and agency
What:
Symposium (Symp)
When:
3:50 PM, Tuesday 29 Aug 2017
(2 hours)
Where:
Convention Center
- 2104 A
How:
Agency is a complex phenomenon that presents itself during interaction with others, as people recognise, interpret and respond to, either individually or collectively, the cultural activities in which they participate (Edwards, 2015). In early childhood education (ECE), understanding the notion of agency in relation to children and teachers isn't always easy for several reasons. For example, it can be argued that children are still developing an ability to fully articulate their intentions, decisions, and actions, and the notion of a teaching team suggests intersecting intentions and decisions about shared activity. With such complexities, it's clear that in order to develop in-depth understandings of agency in ECE, its manifestations, and the conditions and situations in which it emerges, researchers might give serious attention to particular interpretivist methods alongside sociocultural and CHAT theoretical constructs that recognize the potential for agency-in-context to be explored and understood in diverse ways. This symposium addresses these issues by exploring learning, knowledge, and agency in three layers:
1. Exploring the agency and participation of toddlers using sociocultural and sociological theoretical perspectives, a mosaic framework, and child-friendly participatory methods.
2. Examining learning, knowledge, and agency of a young child through sociocultural theory, and related concepts of funds of identity and funds of knowledge.
3. Investigating teachers’ collective activity for the emergence of everyday teacher leadership using cultural-historical activity theory and the related concept of relational agency.
Our three-pronged exploration of agency emphasizes agency as a multi-dimensional phenomenon and highlights its significance for all children, teachers, and researchers in early childhood education.
1. Exploring the agency and participation of toddlers using sociocultural and sociological theoretical perspectives, a mosaic framework, and child-friendly participatory methods.
2. Examining learning, knowledge, and agency of a young child through sociocultural theory, and related concepts of funds of identity and funds of knowledge.
3. Investigating teachers’ collective activity for the emergence of everyday teacher leadership using cultural-historical activity theory and the related concept of relational agency.
Our three-pronged exploration of agency emphasizes agency as a multi-dimensional phenomenon and highlights its significance for all children, teachers, and researchers in early childhood education.
Sub Sessions
Young children’s funds of identity: Zoe’s learning, knowledge and agency
3:50 PM
(30 minutes)
Part of:
SYMP 037 - Participation, identity, and leadership: A three-pronged exploration of agency in early childhood education
Paper in a Symposium (Symp)
ABS275 - Children’s resistance in the emergence of learning as leading activity: Playfulness in the transformation of spaces of participation
4:20 PM
(30 minutes)
Part of:
SYMP 037 - Participation, identity, and leadership: A three-pronged exploration of agency in early childhood education
Participant
Mrs. Paula Cavada-Hrepich (Aalborg University)
Paper in a Symposium (Symp)
Teachers’ collective activity: A prime site for the unfolding of agency and leadership
4:50 PM
(30 minutes)
Part of:
SYMP 037 - Participation, identity, and leadership: A three-pronged exploration of agency in early childhood education
Moderator
Dr. Gloria Quinones (Monash University)
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Participant
Mrs. Maria Cooper (University of Auckland)
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Participant
Dr. Helen Hedges (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
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Participant
Dr. Beth Ferholt (Brooklyn College)
Paper in a Symposium (Symp)
ABS057 - Exploratory playworlds: reconsidering the relationship between pretend play and exploration in early childhood education
5:20 PM
(30 minutes)
Part of:
SYMP 037 - Participation, identity, and leadership: A three-pronged exploration of agency in early childhood education
Participant
Robert Lecusay (Jönköping University, School of Education and Communication )
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Participant
Dr. Beth Ferholt (Brooklyn College)
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Participant
Monica Nilsson (Jönköping University, School of Education and Communication )
Paper in a Symposium (Symp)