Bateman2017
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| 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 |
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| Journal | European Early Childhood Education Research Journal |
| Volume | 25 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 55-71 |
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| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/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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