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Publication Date: 2016
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"Learning to Play with New Friends": Systematic Quality Development Work in a Leisure-Time Centre
Lager, Karin
Early Child Development and Care, v186 n2 p307-323 2016
This article explores the recontextualisation of systematic quality development work (Sqdw) in a leisure-time centre. Two teachers' processes of planning, organisation, documentation and evaluation were investigated, the aim being to explore the recontextualisation of Sqdw in practice. The study is thus a case study of these teachers' practice carried out through fieldwork and using different methods. The findings reveal a practice where play with play-boxes is used in a systematic process as a tool to make children's social learning visible. The teachers create possibilities for children's learning in a manner in accordance with a leisure-time tradition where social learning is documented and evaluated. A formal educational discourse is not enacted in this leisure-time centre; instead a social pedagogical approach is reproduced. Nevertheless, Sqdw is enacted and appears to help the teachers make visible their social pedagogical work in a new context.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leisure Time, Leisure Education, Recreational Facilities, Educational Practices, Educational Planning, Educational Quality, Play, Child Development Centers, Preschool Children, Socialization, Ethnography, Field Studies
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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