This book presents new ethnographic research carried out with five children between one and five years old. It explores children’s agency in relation to daily transitions across everyday life contexts such as home and day-care contexts. Based on this new research, Pernille Juhl shows how young children are active participants orientating in their everyday life transitions. She argues that we should understanding children as creative and transformative subjects co-creating together with co-participants such as parents, professionals and other children, the conditions under which they live. Juhl builds on theoretical work by Holzkamp, Stetsenko, Hedegaard and Vygotsky and covers a range of theoretical approaches and concepts in her analysis such as befindlichkeit, micromovements and embodied orientation. While the research was carried out in the Danish context, the broader theoretical discussions are relevant for early childhood contexts globally, with a focus on Europe and the USA.
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Series Editor’s Preface
Part I
1. Staging the Problem
2. Children’s Agency – A Topic in a Diverse Research Field
3. Theorizing Young Children’s Agency in Everyday Living
Part II
4. Children’s Everyday Life in ECEC Contexts
5. Transitioning Between Everyday Life Contexts
Part III
6. Young Children’s Family Life
7. Parents’ Self-Understanding and Agency
Part IV
8. Summing Up and Future Perspectives
References
Index

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Showcases new ethnographic research on young children’s subjectivity and development in relation to transitions within and across everyday contexts.
<p>Presents new ethnographic research carried out with five children aged 1-5 years old, exploring young children’s agency</p>

The Bloomsbury Transitions in Childhood and Youth series brings together books that present and explore empirical research and theoretical discussion on the themes of childhood and youth transitions. Special attention is directed to conceptualizing transitions holistically so that societal, institutional and personal perspectives are featured within and across books. Key to the series is presenting the processes of transitions between practices or activities and their relationship to the person, in contexts such as, intergenerational family practices, the processes of care, a person’s development, the learning of individuals, groups and systems, personal health, labour and birthing and aging. All books take a broad cultural-historical approach of transitions across a range of contexts and countries and when brought together in one place make an important contribution to better understanding transitions globally. Books in the Transitions in Childhood and Youth series offer an excellent resource for postgraduate students, researchers, policy writers and academics.

Advisory Board:
Anne Edwards (University of Oxford, UK)
Fernando Gonzalez-Rey (University Center of Brasília, Brazil)
Jennifer Vadeboncoeur (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Anna Stetsenko (City University of New York, USA)

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350188297
Publisert
2023-04-20
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

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Om bidragsyterne

Pernille Juhl is Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of People & Technology at Roskilde University, Denmark.