Documentation in Institutional Contexts of Early Childhood: Normalisation, Participation and Professionalism

Maarit Alasuutari, Helga Kelle, Helen Knauf

Springer Nature, 28. apr. 2020 - 257 sider

Internationally, documentation has gained importance in institutional contexts of early childhood during the last 20 years. This edited volume illuminates different practices and aspects of documentation in early childhood and provides theoretically informed analytical perspectives on documentation in childhood institutions. Whilst drawing on different national and early service contexts, the edited volume explores the ways in which documentation may be consequential in childhood and in the practices of early childhood professionals. The different chapters examine assessment and normativity in documentation, children’s participation in it, and the impact of documentation on professionalism. The edited volume is targeted to students, researchers and professionals in the field of education and social sciences.

Indhold

• The Ambivalence of Documentation in Institutional Contexts of Early Childhood: 1
• Assessing Normal Development: 13
• Risk Screenings After Birth in the Context of Early Support: 14
• Documentation of Childrens Language Development: 41
• Child Assessment Tools as a Passage for Inscribing Ideas of Future into the Present: 58
• Constructing Appropriate Information in School Transition Documents as Institutional Agents of Topicalising Childrens InCapabilities and Pedagogic...: 79
• The Logics and Practices of Documenting Diagnostic Findings in School Entry Proceedings: 102
• Childrens Participation in Documentation: 124
• Childrens Participation in ECE DocumentationCreating New Stories: 125
• An Analysis of Documented Observations from the 1930s: 147
• Transitional Spaces Between Being Spoken for and Speaking for Oneself: 167
• Constructions of Professionalism: 184
• Using Professional Risk to Understand Why and How Teachers Choose to Document Some of Childrens Ideas and Actions: 187
• A Case Study on ParentTeacher Meetings ECEC: 205
• Keeping an Eye on Children Observation and Documentation as a Constitutive Feature of Professionalism in German ECEC: 225
• SuperDocumentation? Roads to Digitalisation of Documentation and their Implications: 241
• List of Authors: 256

Om forfatteren

Dr. Maarit Alasuutari works as Professor at Department of Education of University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Dr. Helga Kelle works as Professor at Department of Education of Bielefeld University, Germany.

Dr. Helen Knauf works as Professor at Department of Social Work at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Bibliografiske oplysninger

• Titel: Documentation in Institutional Contexts of Early Childhood: Normalisation, Participation and Professionalism; Education (R0)
• Redaktører: Maarit Alasuutari, Helga Kelle, Helen Knauf
• Udgiver: Springer Nature, 2020
• ISBN: 3658281936, 9783658281939
• Længde: 257 sider