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ERIC Number: EJ1203968
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1350-293X
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Developing 'Negotiation Capital': Influence and Imagination in Three and Four-Year-Old Triadic Collaborative Play in Nursery
Hayward, Kate; Raine, Jackie; Hendry, Carla
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, v27 n1 p15-27 2019
This project seeks to understand the 'possible worlds, possible selves' (Carr, M., A. B. Smith, J. Duncan, C. Jones, W. Lee, and K. Marshall. 2010. "Learning in the Making." Rotterdam: Sense) afforded to children by collaborative imaginative play involving negotiation. We investigate how 3 and 4-year-olds achieve their ends through negotiation and collaboration in imaginary play. Preliminary findings suggest that the ability to influence the play appears to depend on the amount of 'negotiation capital' held by each child. Children engage in a process of 'brinkmanship' assessing how much 'negotiation capital' they hold at any time. The capacity to influence is, therefore, both individually and socially determined and time specific. The study raises questions about how adults can move from being 'solution fixers' with an emphasis on adult determined 'rules' as a way of settling differences of opinion in the nursery to engaging in a more reflective pedagogy where the adult 'tunes' to the child's collaborative play in action.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Preschool Education; Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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