Young children’s agency: exploring children’s interactions with practitioners and ancillary staff members in Greek early childhood education and care settings

Abstract

Young children's agency: exploring children's interactions with practitioners and ancillary staff members in Greek early childhood education and care settings. Early child development and care, 188 (7), 937-950.

Children’s Initiatives in the Finnish Early Childhood Education Context

“…Teachers also pointed out that some children wished to spend time with the teacher and made initiatives about care and cuddling, as in the second example. This is in line with the recent research of Katsiada et al (2018) in which children under 3-year-old performed agency in order to initiate and accept or reject warm, sensitive, affectionate and playful interactions with adults in an ECE setting.…”

Literature review on early childhood education and care for children under the age of 3

“…There is extensive literature showing that higher levels of pre-service qualifications are associated with higher-quality staff-child interactions (OECD, 2018 [1]; Barros et al, 2018[37]; Castle et al, 2016 [99]; Kalliala, 2011 [100]). A recent meta-analysis (Manning et al, 2019 [101]) has strengthened this general finding, reporting that higher teacher qualifications were positively associated with higher process quality in centres, including in domains such as language and reasoning stimulation.…”

What is children's agency? A review of conceptualizations used in early childhood education research

“…Theoretical background Papers where it was used New sociology of childhood -Childhood sociology -James, Jenks & Prout, Corsaro, James & James Shaik & Ebrahim, 2015;Huf, 2013;Rissanen, 2017;Nind et al, 2010;Griffin, 2016;MacFarlane & Cartmel, 2008;Houen et al, 2016;Katsiada, 2018;Baraldi, 2014;Breatnach et al, 2017;Kucirkova, 2016;Wyness, 1999;Gavora, 2016;Sarti et al, 2017;Baker-Sperry, 2006;Bjerke, 2011;Mathis, Caiman & Lundegård, 2014…”

“…Thus, CA is about bringing one's views into the world of social interaction -asserting one's subjectivity (MacFarlane & Cartmel, 2008; see Kucirkova, 2016) -and shaping the social world with those views. In the context of learning, this translates into viewing children as being co-constructors of knowledge instead of merely passive recipients of instruction (Katsiada, Roufidou, Wainwright & Angeli, 2018; see also Baraldi, 2014).…”