Research Partnerships in Early Childhood Education: Teachers and Researchers in Collaboration PDF
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Research Partnerships in Early Childhood Education This page intentionally left blank Research Partnerships in Early Childhood Education Teachers and Researchers in Collaboration Edited by Judith Duncan and Lindsey Conner RESEARCHPARTNERSHIPSINEARLYCHILDHOODEDUCATION Copyright©JudithDuncanandLindseyConner,2013. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-35067-1 Allrightsreserved. Firstpublishedin2013by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN® intheUnitedStates—adivisionofSt.Martin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. WherethisbookisdistributedintheUK,EuropeandtherestoftheWorld, thisisbyPalgraveMacmillan,adivisionofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills, Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabove companiesandhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnited States,theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-46851-5 ISBN 978-1-137-34688-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137346889 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailablefromthe LibraryofCongress. AcataloguerecordofthebookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. DesignbyIntegraSoftwareServices Firstedition:November2013 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 InacknowledgmentandhonorofJeanetteRhedding-Jones(1943–2013), aninternationallyrespectedcolleagueinearlychildhoodeducationand teachereducation,andinreconceptualizingourtaken-for-granted waysofunderstandingandknowingearlychildhoodeducation andresearch.Jeanettegentlyandwiselyguidedustoadeeper awarenessofourroleandinfluence,particularlywithregard toculturallyinclusivepedagogies. This page intentionally left blank Contents ListofTables ix Acknowledgments xi ForewordbyMaggieMacLure xiii ForewordbyRichardJohnson xv NotesonContributors xxv 1 Introduction 1 LindseyConnerandJudithDuncan 2 Re-generatingResearchPartnershipsinEarly ChildhoodEducation:ANon-idealizedVision 11 VeronicaPacini-KetchabawandFikileNxumalo 3 AttunementofKnowledgeForms:TheRelational AgencyofResearchers,PolicyWriters,andEarly ChildhoodEducators 27 MarilynFleer 4 DevelopingEffectiveResearch–PracticePartnerships: LessonsfromaDecadeofPartneringwithSchoolsinPoor UrbanCommunities 49 MeiLaiandStuartMcNaughton 5 PartnershipinPromotingLiteracy:AnExplorationofTwo StudiesinLow-DecileEarlyChildhoodSettings inNewZealand 71 ClaireMcLachlan,AlisonArrowandJudyWatson 6 Kokoekite¯na,koahaukite¯neik¯iwaiotekete:Exploring CollaborationacrossaRangeofRecentEarly ChildhoodStudies 93 JennyRitchie,JanitaCraw,CherylRau,andIrisDuhn 7 AnOngoingExplorationofUncertainty:Ethical Identities—OursandChildren’s 115 KimAtkinsonandEnidElliot,withinputfrom theVictoriaIQgroup viii CONTENTS 8 TeacherReflectioninEarlyYearsPartnershipResearch Projects:ButIt’sNoUseGoingBacktoYesterday,because IWasaDifferentPersonThen(SaysAlicefromAlice’s AdventuresinWonderland) 135 JudithDuncan 9 Conclusion:ResearchPartnershipsinEarlyYearsEducation 153 JudithDuncanandLindseyConner Index 167 Tables 5.1 Compositionofparticipantsfromfourearlychildhoodcenters 76 5.2 MeanChangefrompretesttoposttestforintervention andcontrolgroups 79 5.3 Pre,mid,andpostscoresofliteracyabilitiesin kindergartenchildren(n=26) 82
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