The transition from home care to early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a period of
intense change and development in young children's socio-spatial worlds. This article …

Mikhail Bakhtin is a latecomer to the field of child development. His contributions emphasize
the dialogic nature of language as a lived event of becoming for all and de-thrones any …

Sustained shared thinking dialogues which focus on teacher talk with preschool learners
have long been considered an important route to learning progression. Toddlers, however …

This chapter talks about Mikhail Bakhtin's Dialogic Language. Dialogic concepts have now
been applied to the study of early years experience by several early years researchers …

In this thesis I address the ambiguous nature of play by interrogating alternative ways of
'seeing'play beyond what I assert to be its contemporary Enframed state. I argue that to gain …

Taking a dialogic approach to language in the early years pays attention to the lived nature
of dialogue as an event that takes place between people. Exploring dialogic principles of …

The aim of this chapter is to discuss an affective pedagogy of closeness. Closeness brings
attention to relational and affective pedagogies created by educators. A case example of …

The aim of this chapter is to explore affective pedagogy that unfolds during a mealtime
activity setting in a long day care (LDC) centre. Mealtimes are an important activity setting in …

The teachers in our study carried out in-depth coding of, and reflection on, comprehensive
video footage of dialogues involving 2-year-olds in two preschool settings over 2 years. In …