Bateman2017

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Bateman2017
BibType ARTICLE
Key Bateman2017
Author(s) Amanda Bateman, Amelia Church
Title Children’s use of objects in an early years playground
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Tag(s) Objects, child-peer interactions, social organisation, Play, social organisation of play, Conversation Analysis
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Year 2017
Language English
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Journal European Early Childhood Education Research Journal
Volume 25
Number 1
Pages 55-71
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DOI 10.1080/1350293X.2016.1266221
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Abstract

Early childhood research has investigated children’s use of objects largely focusing on cognitive and motor development. Yet members of a particular culture, such as young children’s peer groups, use objects that have cultural relevance as conversational items, as a means to interacting with other members of the group. This article illustrates the role of objects in children’s everyday lives by demonstrating how children orient to objects as a way of approaching an existing group. The findings are taken from a study using conversation analysis (CA) to explore playground interactions between four-year-old children in a Welsh primary school. The analysis reveals that children systematically use objects as access tools to initiate interactions with each other, thereby using immediately available resources – and exploiting the sequential rules of talk – to co-construct the social organisation of the playground.

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