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Mediating Children's Agency in Play : = A Case Study of Play-Based Teaching.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mediating Children's Agency in Play :/
Reminder of title:	A Case Study of Play-Based Teaching.
Author:	Ramberg, Erica.
Description:	1 online resource (207 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-12A.
Subject:	Early childhood education. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798382817538

Mediating Children's Agency in Play : = A Case Study of Play-Based Teaching.
Ramberg, Erica.

Mediating Children's Agency in Play :A Case Study of Play-Based Teaching. - 1 online resource (207 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references

Children's play has long captured the attention of the early childhood education field as a context for children's growth and development. However, teachers are uncertain about how to meaningfully engage with children's play and in a climate of school readiness and academic pressure many children are seeing their access to play diminish. While play-based teaching has emerged as a viable strategy to support children's learning in play, how teachers actively mediate children's agency alongside learning in play has been less articulated.Through this study I explored how two public school 4K teachers mediated children's agency within their play-based teaching (PBT) practice. Based on the literature I put forward a conceptualization of children's agency in PBT that features how teachers structured choices, negotiated children's autonomy, and provided for children's learning and the expansion of their capabilities in play. I used a qualitative case study approach, generating data from focused observations of play times in the classrooms and semi-structured interviews with the teachers. Through analysis I established each teacher's figured world of PBT and how it took shape through their mediations of children's agency in play. I then analyzed across the cases to elaborate on tensions and possibilities for supporting children's agency in PBT.The findings illustrated that teacher's ideas about play, learning, and children's capabilities influenced how they provided for children's agency in play. Teacher's mediations of children's agency demonstrated how they positioned themselves in relation to children in ways that upheld and disrupted racism, monolingualism, and ableism, as well as how they negotiated the purposes of 4K and their ideas of equity and justice. My findings also indicated contextual factors at the personal, school, and district level that contributed to the ways teachers implemented play and mediated children's agency. I addressed research and early childhood practice implications for these findings.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798382817538Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Early childhood education.
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