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 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.
Love the whole concept of learning stories. So many lovely examples and gorgeous photos to add even more interest to what is already a riveting topic
The many practical examples and accessible writing style result in a text which documents this approach to assessment in the early years in an interesting and thought provoking read.
This book provides a detailed overview of the theory behind Learning Stories and how this connects to practice. I particularly enjoy the fact that there is a good range of examples which provides the reader with an extensive Learning Stories toolkit.
A brilliant piece of writing and an inspiring read. This books offers everything students need to know about Margaret Carr's Learning Stories. The case illustrations are extremely helpful and link academic thinking and practice with ease. This is particularly useful for students who do not have the practice background.
Core reading for the subject matter, well written with plenty of case studies
Nice to find a text that covers this area - and this book does so well extending to Te Whariki areas that are often hard to find.
Worthy text which builds on the text of previous work.
This edition is very different from the first so I would recommend that students (in particular) read the first. The concept of learning stories should be conisdered in settings in the UK.
The students on the foundation degree in early years programme have engaged with this book. They have enjoyed both text and photographs and have taken ideas from it to develop in their own practice.
