Free choice and free play in early childhood education: troubling the discourse   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Elizabeth Ann Wood 《International Journal of Early Years Education》2014,22(1):4-18

This article troubles the established discourse of free choice and free play in early childhood education, and develops post-structural approaches to theorising children's agency in the context of institutional and relational power structures. It is widely accepted that planning a curriculum based on children's needs, interests and patterns of learning promotes agency, self-regulation and control. However, contemporary research extends this discourse through critical examination of child-centred and developmental perspectives, and by theorising children's agency as a means of enacting power relationships in play. Using naturalistic, interpretive methods for documenting children's choices of play activities, this small-scale study focuses on 10 children in an Early Years Foundation Stage setting in England. Combining contemporary sociocultural and post-structural theories, the findings indicate that children's choices are situated within shifting power structures and relationships, involving conflict, negotiation, resistance and subversion. These activities create opportunities for exercising and affirming group and individual agency. The study raises critical questions about how children make and manage their choices, and examines the implications for policy and practice in light of restrictive curriculum frameworks.  相似文献   

do i know its wrong: children’s and adults’ use of unconventional grammar in text messaging     

Nenagh Kemp  Clare Wood  Sam Waldron 《Reading and writing》2014,27(9):1585-1602

There is concern that the violations of conventional grammar (both accidental and deliberate) often seen in text messages (e.g., hi how is ya?!!) could lead to difficulty in learning or remembering formal grammatical conventions. We examined whether the grammatical violations made by 244 British children, adolescents and young adults in their text messages was related to poorer performance on tasks of grammatical knowledge, including translating grammatically unconventional text messages into standard English. We found that variance in the production of grammatical violations in naturalistic messages was inconsistently predicted by grammatical task performance. Specifically, primary school children who made poorer grammar-based spelling choices were more likely to make more grammatical violations in their everyday messages, and university students who failed to correct more grammatical errors in a given set of messages were also more likely to make such errors in their own messages. There were no significant relationships for secondary school students. We conclude that using unconventional grammar when texting is not a consistent sign of poor grammatical abilities, although there may be links between some aspects of grammatical skill and grammatical violations in text messages.  相似文献   

1. CBQ Review Essay: Global Telecommunication Company History     

James Playsted Wood  Otto Friedrich 《Communication Booknotes Quarterly》2013,44(1):7-21

James Playsted Wood's The Curtis Magazines (New York: Ronald Press, 1971—price not known)

Magazines in the United States which has just been re-released in a revised (3rd) edition (New York: Ronald Press, 1971—price not known)

Otto Friedrich's Decline and Fall (New York, Harper &; Row/Ballentine, 1970—$10.00/1.25)  相似文献   

Turning Silence into Speech and Action: Prison Activism and the Pedagogy of Empowered Citizenship     

Stephen John Hartnett  Jennifer K. Wood  Bryan J. McCann 《传播与批判/文化研究》2013,10(4):331-352

Based on almost 50 years of combined experience as prison activists and prison teachers, the authors offer three case studies of prison activism and pedagogy in action. The first case study, by Hartnett, details the “artistry of agency” as enacted in poetry workshops in prison and in public poetry events, thus illustrating artistic communication. The second, by Wood, examines how friendship becomes political in the epistolary communication between free and imprisoned correspondents, thus addressing interpersonal communication. The third, by McCann, addresses web-based communication as a tool for advocacy for condemned prisoner/activists on Texas’s death row, and hence political communication. Taken as a whole, the three case studies celebrate different communication strategies as avenues of enlightenment and empowerment while offering powerful arguments for abolishing the prison–industrial complex.  相似文献   

eBooks on EBSCOhost     

Greta Wood 《期刊图书馆员》2013,64(2):187-191

Scott Wasinger, Senior Director of Sales, eBooks & eAudiobooks at EBSCO Publishing, presented eBooks on EBSCOhost at the MidSouth eResource Symposium held at Mississippi State University Libraries on August 11, 2011. Wasinger briefly talked about how EBSCO Publishing acquired NetLibrary and the changes EBSCO made in order to create the platform/integration into EBSCOhost, which included expanded business models, content growth, and collection development options. Wasinger provided information on EBSCOadmin, EBSCO's lease and enhanced PDA models, downloading e-book options, introduction of the ePub format, and EBSCOhost Collection Manager.  相似文献   

Communication Ethics and Ethical Culture: A Study of the Ethics Initiative in Denver City Government     

Spoma Jovanovic  Roy V. Wood 《Journal of Applied Communication Research》2013,41(4):386-405

This article examines the work of the ethics initiative in the City of Denver to see how talk about ethics contributes to an ethical culture. By paying particular attention to the communication in the city's Code of Ethics, ethics training discussion, employee interviews, and formal documents relaying the Board of Ethics’ views, we show how ethics emerges within communication. We argue that the emergent quality of ethics is dialogically refined in communication. For practitioners and officials interested in advancing organization-wide ethics training, we urge pursuing dialogical means so that people can negotiate among competing interests to shape future policy and action reflective of their ethical concerns.  相似文献   

Women and communication: An introduction to the issues     

Julia T. Wood 《Communication quarterly》2013,61(2):99-100

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Between Two Wars By Porter Sargent. Porter Sargent,II Beacon Street,Boston, Massachusetts. 580 pp. $5.00     

R. F. Wood 《The Educational forum》2013,77(3):379-380

This essay offers suggestions for faculty who are designing study abroad (SA) experiences by outlining a three-week Maymester study abroad to Reggio Emilia, Italy, and a semester-long study abroad to Brussels, Belgium. The authors reflect on commonalities in planning, recruiting, preparing students, and conducting each trip, as well as some of the differences in the experiences for both students and faculty.  相似文献   

Why the Student Marries     

Barton Wood 《The Educational forum》2013,77(2):217-220

Agent of Death. The Memoirs of an Executioner by Robert G. Elliott and Albert R. Beatty. Illustrated. E. P. Dutton and Co. 315 pp. $3.00.

A Goodly Fellowship by Mary Ellen Chase. The Macmillan Company. 305 pp. $2.50.

Democracy's Challenge to Education edited by Beulah Amidon. Illustrated. Farrar and Rinehart. 263 pp. $1.50.

Democracy Readers by Lois G. Nemec, Maybell G. Bush, Helen M. Brindl, Ruth M. Robinson, Edna Morgan, Allen Y. King, Ida Dennis. Edited by Prudence Cutright and W. W. Charters. The Macmillan Co.

Education for Democracy in Our Time by Jesse H. Newlon. McGraw-Hill. 242 pp. $3.00.

Educational Psychology by Charles H. Judd. Houghton Mifflin Co. 566 pp. $2.25.

In-Service Growth of Social Science Teachers. Tenth Yearbook, National Council for the Social Studies. 187 pp. $2.00 (paper). $2.30 (cloth). 1939.

Living with Others by John A. Kinneman and Robert S. Ellwood. Houghton Mifflin and Company. 531 pp. $1.72.

Poems of Today by Alice Cecilia Cooper. Ginn and Company. New England Edition. 412 pp.

Post-Primary Education in the Primary Schools of Scotland, 1872-1936 by Newman A. Wade. University of London Press, Ltd. 265 pp. 8 shillings 6 pence.

The College Charts Its Course by R. Freeman Butts. McGraw-Hill. 464 pp. $3.00.

The Development of Education in the Twentieth Century by Adolph E. Meyer. Prentice-Hall. 406 pp. $2.75.

The Future of the Social Studies: Proposals for an Experimental Social-Studies Curriculum, James A. Michener, Editor. The National Council for the Social Studies. 178 pp. $1.50 (paper). 1939.

Understanding American Business by Humphrey B. Neill and Howard M. Cool. The Macmillan Co. 448 pp. List price $1.92.

Visualizing the Curriculum by Charles F. Hoban, Charles F. Hoban, Jr., and Professor S. B. Zisman. The Cordon Company. 300 pp. $3.50.

Appointment with Death by Pamela Frankau. E. P. Dutton and Co. 334 pp. $2.50.

Dalesacres by Florence Ward. E. P. Dutton and Company. 308 pp. $2.50.

Family Album by Humphrey Pakington. W. W. Norton and Company. 340 pp. $2.50.

Encyclopedia of Knots and Fancy Rope Work by Raoul M. Graumont and John J. Hensel. Illustrated. The Cornell Maritime Press. 615 pp. $10.00.

Introduction to the Dance by John Martin. Illustrated. W. W. Norton Co. 363 pp. $3.50.

Once Over Lightly by Charles De Zemler. Illustrated. Published by the author. Rockefeller Center, New York City. 270 pp. $3.75.

Political Science in American Colleges and Universities 1636-1900 by Anna Haddow. The Century Political Science Series. Appleton-Century Co. 308 pp. $2.50

Science for the World Tomorrow by Gerald Wendt. Illustrated. W. W. Norton and Co. 316 pp. $2.75.  相似文献   

An effective mathematics and science curriculum option for secondary gifted education     

Tandra L. Tyler‐Wood  Mark Mortenson  Dawn Putney  Michael A. Cass 《Roeper Review》2013,35(4):266-269

Project Ga‐GEMS (Georgia's Project for Gifted Education in Math and Science) viewed the effect that placement in an integrated, hands‐on mathematics and science curriculum had on the achievement of academically talented high school students. For a two‐year period of time, students gifted in the areas of mathematics and science participated in a curriculum which incorporated higher‐level thinking skills and more real life laboratory experiences into mutually reinforcing mathematics and science lessons. After the conclusion of the two‐year program, Ga‐GEMS participants and a control group were given the mathematics and science sections of the ACT as they exited the tenth grade. The Ga‐GEMS students scored significantly higher on the Science Math Total, Pre‐Algebra/Elementary Algebra, Intermediate Algebra/Coordinate Geometry and Plane Geometry/Trigonometry sections of the ACT. To determine if the Ga‐GEMS students retained their higher scores throughout high school the SAT scores of both groups were compared as the students exited high school. Significant differences in the areas of total score and mathematics were noted. This study lends support for the use of a differentiated curriculum for educating gifted students in science and mathematics.  相似文献