Beskrivelse
Præsentation på konference:Title: The Sound of Childhood Education
Aim: Voice and sounds are basic tools in communication. The aim of the study is to bring a child-sensitive perspective to the encounters between children and their educators with attention to the sounds and voice tones associated with teacher role and teacher intentions,
Theoretical Framework: The study is based on phenomenology and sensory anthropology and refers to a former study of teacher roles presented at Eecera Conference 2014 pointing to four teacher archetypes that relate to children on a continuum of a responsive-directive or a nurturing-play-stimulating behavior.
Methodology: Field observations were carried out during five days in five different educational settings among children from 0 to 9 year of age in order to study different teacher roles in practice. Special sensitivity was directed towards how situations would appear from a child point of view.
Ethical Considerations: Research strives to provide child perspectives as authentic as possible, but data is always interpreted by an adult researcher in some way. It is crucial to bear in mind that there is various child perspectives and to pay attention to different kinds of children in the field.
Main findings: Different language tones are heard in the soundscape surrounding children. Teachers communicate by voice according to different roles and intentions. The sound of education depends on socio-communicative style, rhetorical intention, directedness and expectations to the recipient and may be characterized in terms of auditory elements (speed, volume, pitch, melody).
Implications for practice: Auditory elements in teacher’s voicing may affect children recipients in various ways that needs consideration when planning and evaluating educational practice.
Keywords:
Child perspectives
Teacher roles
Child-adult relationship
Voicing
Auditory elements
| Periode | sep. 2015 |
|---|---|
| Begivenhedstype | Konference |
| Konferencenummer | 25th |
| Arrangør | European Early Childhood Education Research Association |
| Placering | Barcelona, SpanienVis på kort |