ERIC Number: EJ1008583
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 7
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ISSN: ISSN-1463-9491
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Loss, Failure, and an Awful Reputation: A Response to Jonathan Silin
Britt, Clare
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, v14 n1 p32-38 2013
In this article the author responds to Jonathan Silin's article "At a Loss: Scared and Excited", and in doing so, takes up his ideas around the generative potential of loss. She uses these notions of loss to illuminate how, in one diverse school community in Australia, loss, failure and an "awful reputation" have opened up spaces for re-imagining multiple, heterogeneous, (im)possible student subjectivities and have allowed room for seeking out pedagogical practices centred around complexity, connectedness, authenticity and uncertainty.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Reputation, Writing (Composition), Creativity, Early Childhood Education, Reading, Young Children, Learning
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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