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- Title
- "Making connections" early childhood teachers re-creating meaning: contextualizing Reggio Emilian pedagogy
- Related
- Australasian Digital Theses Program
- Date
- 2007
- Author/Creator
- Baxter, Christine Ann
- Description
- Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of master of Philosophy Macquarie University, Australian Centre for Educational Studies, Institute of Early Childhood. 2007.
- Description
- Thesis (MPhil)--Macquarie University (Australian Centre for Educational Studies, Institute of Early Childhood), 2007.
- Description
- Bibliography: p. 199-227.
- Description
- Introduction -- The context of the study -- Literature review -- Methodology -- Teachers' interpretations: the impact of Reggio Emilian pedagogy -- Themes of influence: Reggio Emilian pedagogy and teachers' philosophies and practice -- Relevance to the local context -- Conclusion.
- Description
- Reggio Emilian pedagogy is an acknowledged and burgeoning world-wide influence in early childhood education, yet it claims not to be a model for emulation. Where practising teachers engage with Reggio Emilian pedagogy in their classrooms, such 'influence without emulation' creates a paradox in the process. This qualitative study aims to investigate the process and theorize the paradox. Following the tradition of interpretive research into teacher reflection, research, inquiry and professional development, eight Australian teachers, working across a range of early childhood contexts, were interviewed for their interpretations of the impact, influence and local relevance of this foreign pedagogy. Analysis revealed strong responses, common themes of influence and a shared perspective on the issue of translocation - engagement in an alternative process to mere replication.
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- Mode of access: World wide Web.
- Description
- iii, 283 p
- Subject Keyword
- Early childhood teachers -- New South Wales
- Subject Keyword
- Early childhood teachers -- New South Wales -- Attitudes
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- Early childhood education -- Italy -- Reggio Emilia
- Subject Keyword
- Early childhood education -- New South Wales
- Subject Keyword
- Early childhood education -- Philosophy
- Subject Keyword
- pedagogical change
- Subject Keyword
- educational innovation
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- teacher role
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- reflective teaching
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- teacher inquiry
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- professional development
- Subject Keyword
- educational philosophy
- Resource Type
- Thesis masters research
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Institute of Early Childhood
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/659
- Language
- eng
- Rights
- Copyyright disclaimer: http://ww.copyright.mq.edu.au
- Rights
- Copyright Christine Baxter 2007.
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