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Title: Understanding infants : characteristics of early childhood practitioners' interpretations of infants and their behaviours
Related: Early years : an international journal of research and development, Vol. 28, Issue 3, (2008), p.221-234
DOI: 10.1080/09575140802393686
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Date: 2008
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 130100 Education Systems
Author/Creator: Degotardi, Sheila
Author/Creator: Davis, Belinda
Description: This research explored the nature of early childhood practitioners' interpretations of infants in their programs on the basis that such interpretations guide practitioner–infant interactions and curriculum decision‐making processes. Twenty‐four infant practitioners were asked to describe a nominated infant in their program and to interpret video extracts of that infant's behaviour in the contexts of toy play and a nappy‐change routine. Constant comparison techniques were employed to develop a model representing the theoretical properties of the ideas and explanations contained within their interpretive statements, and to identify main areas of individual or contextual variation. The findings extend current understandings of the psychological context of early childhood infant programs and provide a foundation for future investigations of the implications of infant practitioner interpretations for their professional teaching and caregiving practices.
Description: 14 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 130100 Education Systems
Subject Keyword: infants
Subject Keyword: early childhood teachers
Subject Keyword: observations
Subject Keyword: infant day‐care
Subject Keyword: teachers' beliefs
Subject Keyword: folk psychology
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Institute of Early Childhood

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/181835
Identifier: ISSN:0957-5146
Identifier: mq-rm-2007008155
Language: eng
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