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Toddlers' Complex Communication: Playfulness from a Secure Base
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Alcock, Sophie – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2013
Attachment theory is presented in this article as involving embodied relational processes within complex relational systems. Two narrative-like "events" are represented to illustrate very young children playfully relating -- connecting and communicating inter- and intrasubjectively. The ethnographic-inspired research methods included…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Attachment Behavior, Play, Interpersonal Communication