Learning Stories
Constructing Learner Identities in Early Education
- Margaret Carr - Waikato University, New Zealand
- Wendy Lee - Director of the Educational Leadership Project, New Zealand
Chapters explore how Learning Stories:
- help make connections with families
- support the inclusion of children and family voices
- tell us stories about babies
- allow children to dictate their own stories
- can be used to revisit children's learning journeys
- can contribute to teaching and learning wisdom
This ground-breaking book expands on the concept of Learning Stories and includes examples from practice in both New Zealand and the UK. It outlines the philosophy behind this pedagogical tool for documenting how learning identities are constructed and shows, through research evidence, why the early years is such a critical time in the formation of learning dispositions.
Margaret Carr is a Professor of Education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Wendy Lee is Director of the Educational Leadership Project, New Zealand.
This text offers the students selecting to focus on this aspect of the course some clear ideas on learning stories with practical applications through case study.
The photographs in this book really enhance the text and also link it well to practice. The boxes give useful case studies.
Very useful background. Helps student practitioners understand the rationale behind using learning jouneys for their key children.
Excellent book that utilized really cases and stories so that students can follow and understand the authors points. Highly recommended.
Excellent book that utilized really cases and stories so that students can follow and understand the authors points. Highly recommended
Will be introducing the concept of Learning Stories to students as an innovative new way to observe children. Fantastic
ESSENTIAL reading for all early years practitioners who are engaged in meaningful assessments of the children in their care. Wonderful colour illustrations that truly support understanding of the rich stories that children bring to their learning experiences. Influences not just our own view but how we influence how others view children. So passionate about the concept of stories and story telling a must for the shelves of any early years practitioner.
Essential for those who follow the comparative element of this module.
Margaret Carr & Wendy Lee are an inspiration to practitioners and students alike. The book is a great guide, it outlines the philosophy of learning stories and supports this with examples, colour photographs and research. A great resource and inspiration to develop good practice with practitioners and in settings.
This book is ESSENTIAL reading for all early years practitioners who are looking to engage in meaningful assessments of the children in their care. The book expands on the concept of learning stories and demonstrates how the process of collecting and telling the stories of children's remarkable experiences enables us to influence how others view children. When practitioners turn their observations into oral, written, and visual stories, children sense that their pursuits are worthy of being documented, described, and remembered, and their families are rewarded with the details of what the children have been doing, thinking, and learning. This book will make our assessing and documenting children's development better, easier, and more fun.
