Toddler Interaction during Play in the Swedish Preschool

Autor/in	Engdahl, Ingrid
Titel	Toddler Interaction during Play in the Swedish Preschool
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 181 (2011) 10, S.1421-1439 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2010.533269
Schlagwörter	Video Technology; Play; Nonverbal Communication; Ethnography; Toddlers; Foreign Countries; Preschool Children; Interaction; Phenomenology; Interpersonal Competence; Perspective Taking; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Ethnografie; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Ausland; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Interaktion; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Zukunftsperspektive; Schweden
Abstract	This article focuses on how children aged 17-24 months initiate play and interact with their peers during self-initiated play in preschools. Play is looked upon as a rich arena for observing toddler interaction. The ethnographic study was carried out in a toddler unit with 15 children. Six one-year-old girls and boys were observed during five weeks at the end of a longer research period. The study follows a phenomenological tradition with participatory observations and video recordings. The overall findings support a theoretical perspective where very young children are seen as social actors, with social competences. Play invitation strategies, as well as play enactment and play-closing moves, were mostly found to be based on nonverbal communication such as locomotion, gestures, physical actions and facial expressions. This study also shows that the competence of taking others' perspectives was found recurrently in play among younger children. Furthermore, the young children used negotiating skills during their play. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10