Browsing Education Journal Articles by Author "48160"
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Dressing up play: Rethinking play and playfulness from socio-cultural perspectives
Alcock, Sophie (2009)Play is complex, contradictory, and sometimes chaotic. It has been described in such contrary ways as: both work and fun, pleasurable, purposeful and also without purpose, intrinsically motivated, yet socially and biologically ... -
'I caught your eye, I catched your teeth' : distributed playfulness connecting children.
Alcock, Sophie (2009)This 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 ... -
Reconceptualising child observation: Prioritising subjectivity
Alcock, Sophie (2012)This article puts forward a rationale for early childhood teachers observing and interpreting 'objectivity', 'subjectivity' and 'intersubjectivally'. By 'subjectively' I am referring to the idea of teachers working with ... -
Searching for play in Early Childhood Care and Education policy
Alcock, Sophie (Springer, 2013)Children (and adults) across all cultures play in culturally reflective ways (Goncu & Gaskins, 2007; Rogoff, 2003). Play is one of the most interesting characteristics of groups of children. Despite play being a preoccupation ... -
Toddlers' complex communication: playfulness from a secure base
Alcock, Sophie (Symposium Journals, 2013)Attachment theory is presented in this article as involving embodied relational prcoesses within complex relational systems. Two narrative-like 'events' are re-presented to illustrate very young children playfully relating ... -
Young Children Being Rhythmically Playful: creating musike together
Alcock, Sophie (2008)This article explores young children’s rhythmic, musical, aesthetic and playful creative communication in an early childhood education centre. Young children’s communication is musically rhythmic and social. The data, ...