This book outlines the key findings from the ADVOST project and other international projects that examine how educational practitioners have utilised theoretical notions of voice and agency to enhance the social inclusion and wellbeing of children within their settings.
This book outlines the key findings from the ADVOST project and other international projects that examine how educational practitioners have utilised theoretical notions of voice and agency to enhance the social inclusion and wellbeing of children within their settings.
Bringing together findings from three project case studies that are each placed in a different national context, chapters explore theoretical principles of space, audience and influence to facilitate and enhance the voices of very young children. Focusing on diversity as an opportunity rather than a challenge, the book provides collaboratively written and regionally diverse chapters that ultimately contribute to a growing field on literature examining how young people might be included in culturally sensitive and responsive ways within education, recognising the diversity that young people, their families and communities bring to educational processes to provide an inclusive education for all.
Offering multiple perspectives and insights into our growing understanding of childrens voice and agency in diverse settings, this book will be of relevance to scholars, researchers and academics in the fields of primary education, multicultural education, early years and educational research, and child development studies.
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This book brings together several theoretical underpinnings of listening to children with case studies of practice from across diverse contexts. The chapters capture the dynamic nature of listening to children and the importance of this for all children, but particularly for those in marginalised communities whose perspectives and voices tend not to be heard. The book is driven by commitments to valuing children, listening to children, and respecting their rights and agency.
- Sue Dockett is Emeritus Professor, Early Childhood Education, School of Education, Charles Sturt University, Australia This book brings together several theoretical underpinnings of listening to children with case studies of practice from across diverse contexts. The chapters capture the dynamic nature of listening to children and the importance of this for all children, but particularly for those in marginalised communities whose perspectives and voices tend not to be heard. The book is driven by commitments to valuing children, listening to children, and respecting their rights and agency.
- Sue Dockett is Emeritus Professor, Early Childhood Education, School of Education, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Part 1: Key Theoretical Ideas
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Being well, being in the community, having voice and agency
through practical philosophy
Chapter 3: An exploration of practices for rights-based education through
promoting voice in the early years: Building a spiders web
Chapter 4: The sociomateriality of voice and its implications for research
with children: Voice-as-event in an intergenerational art program
Part 2: ADVOST Case Studies
Chapter 5: Childrens Identity and Agency in an Art Gallery: Voices in the
Making
Chapter 6: Using Childrens Literature to Augment Childrens Multimodal
Voices and Agency: Placelessness in the Classroom
Chapter 7: Teachers perspectives on Sami culture-based pedagogical
innovations promoting childrens agency in online Sami language classes
Chapter 8: Exploring Sįmi language instruction for young learners:
Comparative case studies in Finland and Norway
Chapter 9: Space and Time as Pedagogical Tools for Facilitating Voice and
Agency
Chapter 10: An approach to developing community that supports voice and
agency in education settings: Circles of Trust
Chapter 11: Advancing Young Childrens Inclusion and Agency in Society
Through Voice and Story: A Reflection
Mhairi C. Beaton is Professor of Social and Educational Inclusion, Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University, UK.
Anne Burke is Professor of Literacy Education and Digital Learning, Faculty of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Pigga Keskitalo is Professor in Education, University of Lapland, and Adjunct Professor in Education, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Tuija Turunen is Professor of Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, University of Lapland, Finland.