Bateman-Waters2018
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | Bateman-Waters2018 |
Author(s) | Amanda Bateman, Jane Waters |
Title | Risk-taking in the New Zealand bush: issues of resilience and wellbeing |
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Tag(s) | EMCA, Outdoors, Play, Teachers, Teacher-child interaction, New Zealand, Resilience |
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Year | 2018 |
Language | English |
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Journal | Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education |
Volume | 12 |
Number | 2 |
Pages | 7–29 |
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DOI | 10.17206/apjrece.2018.12.2.7 |
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Abstract
This article discusses a single case analysis of teacher-child interactions on an everyday bush walk in New Zealand. It uses a combination of the Leuven wellbeing scale (Laevers, 2000) and a conversation analysis approach to explore how children and teachers attend to specific features of the outdoor environment in a way that encourages risk-taking and builds resilience through problem solving. The collaborative achievement of the activities between the pre- school teacher and the fouryear- old children are discussed as an important and necessary aspect of the interactions, which we suggest may represent physical sustained shared thinking, for supporting wellbeing whilst building resilience and risk-taking. Implications for future practice are considered with regard to implementation of early childhood curricula.
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