ERIC Number: EJ1401132
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1476-718X
EISSN: EISSN-1741-2927
Extended Dialogues in Establishing Children-Teacher Play: The Pattern of Initiation-Challenge-Extension (ICE)
Journal of Early Childhood Research, v21 n4 p510-523 2023
In studies of classroom discourse in early childhood education and care (ECEC), a dominance of the communicative pattern of initiation, response, follow-up (IRF) is shown, and a need of knowledge about extensive dialogue for meaning making is argued. In the present study, communication between children and teacher(s) in play is consider as a form educational discourse mediating language learning. The study, informed by a sociocultural perspective aims to contribute to the knowledge of pattern of establishing a pedagogical dialogue in play activities. What characterizes the communication establishing a joint play in which children come to participate in extensive dialogues is clarified through reanalyzing video-documented data from a project concerning play, learning and teaching in ECEC. The analysis implies a pattern of ICE: children initiating a play (I)--a teacher challenging the initiative (C)--children expanding the content (E). The function of challenging is understood as the critical contribution for opening for and expanding the children's verbal participation. A conclusion of changing the follow-up from evaluating to expanding in a pedagogical dialogue is recommended to study further in different contexts.
Descriptors: Play, Teacher Student Relationship, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Sociocultural Patterns, Learning Activities, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Video Technology, Verbal Communication, Dialogs (Language), Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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