Boys, Weapon Toys, War Play and Meaning-Making: Prohibiting Play in Early Childhood Education Settings?

Autor/in	Heikkilä, Mia
Titel	Boys, Weapon Toys, War Play and Meaning-Making: Prohibiting Play in Early Childhood Education Settings?
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 192 (2022) 11, S.1830-1841 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Heikkilä, Mia)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2021.1943377
Schlagwörter	Males; Weapons; Play; War; Early Childhood Education; Masculinity; Feminism; Toys; Sex Stereotypes; Preschool Children; Foreign Countries; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Weapon; Waffe; Spiel; Krieg; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Männlichkeit; Feminismus; Toy; Spielzeug; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Ausland; Schweden
Abstract	This article aims to summarise research on this topic; analyse, reflect on and discuss earlier research on play and learning using a few empirical examples; and determine what constitutes an appropriate educational approach concerning war and weapon within an early childhood education and care (ECEC) setting. This is done by putting feminist theories on masculinity (Connell, 2005; Kimmel, 2008) beside social semiotic multimodal theories of meaning making and learning in order to try to understand the aspects in focus (Kress, 2010, Kress & Bezemer, 2016). The research question has been: How can boys' creation and use of war toys and weapon play be understood in terms of meaning-making in an ECE setting? The boys in the two empirical examples that are presented in the article can be said to use elements of learning; they talk, discuss, explain, argue and create a play, around guns and cookery. One of the themes is acknowledged by the ECE institution, one of the themes not. How the modes are displayed can be related to the gender of the children whereas boys displaying war toys and weapon games don't seem to fit into the context. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01