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dc.contributor.authorAlcock, Sophie
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-08T04:14:11Z
dc.date.available2013-07-08T04:14:11Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10652/2244
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores how playful activity mediates and connects children as “mind” becomes distributed across individuals (Rogoff, 1998; Salomon, 1993; Tomasello et al. 2005). “Mind” includes consciousness, cognition, emotion and imagination. Children’s playful communication is mediated and distributed via words, sounds, gestures, gaze, posture, rhythm, and movement using a variety of strategies including imitation and repetition. Socio-cultural historical activity theory informs both the methodological paradigm of the research and the framework for data analysis (Chaiklin, 2001; Cole, 1996; Engeström, 1999; Vygotsky, 1986, 1978; Wertsch, 1998). Findings suggest that understanding children’s mediated and distributed relationships with others is central to understanding children in early childhood settings. Distributed understandings of mind have pedagogical implications for how teachers view children in early childhood centre communities, and for curriculum and assessment practices.en_NZ
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.rightsAll rights reserveden_NZ
dc.subjectplayfulnessen_NZ
dc.subjectcultural historical activity theoryen_NZ
dc.subjectdistributed minden_NZ
dc.title'I caught your eye, I catched your teeth' : distributed playfulness connecting children.en_NZ
dc.typeJournal Articleen_NZ
dc.rights.holderAustralian Research in Early Childhood Educationen_NZ
dc.subject.marsden130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Māori)en_NZ
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationAlcock, S. (2009). 'I caught your eye, I catched your teeth': distributed playfulness connecting children'. Australian Research in Early Childhood Education. 16(1) : 19-31.en_NZ
unitec.institutionUnitec Institute of Technologyen_NZ
unitec.publication.titleAustralian Research in Early Childhood Educationen_NZ
unitec.peerreviewedyesen_NZ
dc.contributor.affiliationUnitec Institute of Technologyen_NZ
unitec.identifier.roms52981
unitec.institution.studyareaEducation


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