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Learning Stories: Constructing Learner Identities in Early Education 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Margaret Carr (Author), Wendy Lee (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Margaret Carr′s seminal work on Learning Stories was first published by SAGE in 2001, and this widely acclaimed approach to assessment has since gained a huge international following. In this new full-colour book, the authors outline the philosophy behind Learning Stories and refer to the latest findings from the research projects they have led with teachers on learning dispositions and learning power, to argue that Learning Stories can construct learner identities in early childhood settings and schools. By making the connection between sociocultural approaches to pedagogy and assessment, and narrative inquiry, this book contextualizes Learning Stories as a philosophical approach to education, learning and pedagogy.

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.

ISBN-13

978-0857020932
Edition

1st
Sticky notes

On Kindle Scribe
Publisher

SAGE Publications Ltd
Publication date

19 March 2012
Language

English
File size

8354 KB
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′Margaret Carr and Wendy Lee weave together a powerful book full of respect for children′s ideas, interests and identities as learners. Using theoretically informed and practically focused discussion and examples, they provide extensive evidence of the role of narrative assessment as teachers, children and families co-construct stories of competence′
- Sue Dockett, Professor of Early Childhood Education,
Murray School of Education, Charles Sturt University

′What a fabulous read! Any practitioner already engaged in collating learning stories or learning journeys as a means of recording children′s achievements and progress should absorb this life-enriching read of a beautiful book′
-Early Years Educator

′Illustrated in colour, this is a fascinating and timely book which will make rewarding reading for both experienced practitioners and for students on degree and higher degree level courses. There is much here to think about, reflect upon and discuss as we endevour to equip young children with the skills and dispositions they need to live in a global democratic society′
- Early Years Update

About the Author

Margaret Carr is a Professor of Education at the Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research at the University of Waikato, in Hamilton, New Zealand. Before she joined the Faculty of Education at Waikato, she was a geographer at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, where there was a strong focus by the professors on social and cultural change. This formed a background for her interest in the role of education in society, and in Hamilton she gained a qualification in early childhood education and worked as a kindergarten teacher before becoming a lecturer in education at the university. Her PhD thesis was entitled 'Technological Practice in Early Childhood as a Dispositional Milieu'. New Zealand has provided a number of opportunities for professors to research with early childhood teachers on topics chosen by the teachers, and Margaret has frequently published with teachers. Learning Stories as an assessment practice was developed for the 1996 Te Whariki bicultural curriculum (later revised in 2017); the development of narrative assessment is told in the 2001 Sage book, Assessment in Early Childhood Settings: Learning Stories, and further developed in the 2012 Sage book Learning Stories: Constructing Learner Identities in Early Education. The latter book was co-authored with Wendy Lee, and this partnership has combined academic and professional wisdom in many publications and presentations over many years. Wendy Lee is passionate about Early Childhood Education (ECE) in New Zealand and has developed a deep interest in issues related to the curriculum and leadership. She is a strong advocate for Learning Stories and the power of documentation to strengthen learner identity of children. Over the past 50 years, her career has focused on building strong, reflective and robust learning communities through her roles as teacher, unionist, lecturer, community development worker, city councillor, manager, professional development facilitator and researcher. Today, as director of the Educational Leadership Project Ltd she and her team provide training and advice to ECE centres throughout New Zealand and in a wide range of other countries. Over the past 20 years, she has had the privilege of collaborating with Professor Margaret Carr on a number of ECE research projects, including co-directing the National Early Childhood Assessment and Learning Exemplar Project. This produced the Kei Tua o te Pae books on assessment for improving learning in the NZ ECE sector. As the influence of research in the area of Learning Stories and Assessment in New Zealand grows and extends more into ECE practice, Wendy has been increasingly requested to present its influence to a wider international audience including teachers in Ireland, England, Scotland, Germany, Japan, Belgium, the USA, Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia and China.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00GFUJ7S0
Publisher ‏ : ‎ SAGE Publications Ltd; 1st edition (19 March 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 8354 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 168 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1857020928

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- 433 in Preschool & Kindergarten
- 742 in Preschools & Nursery Schools

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Sue

Book in detail

Reviewed in Australia on 22 March 2019

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I found this book was very useful to describe the reasons why we document and gave good examples of how it looks up when documenting. I would recommend this book for any person working in early years or child care. A beginner in the industry would benefit from reading this book.

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Kwizzy Howling

Super book

Reviewed in the United States on 10 April 2020

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This book gave me a better understanding on how to write learning stories in the M. Carr style.

Wen

Three Stars

Reviewed in Canada on 3 November 2017

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Wish the library label was removed.

Nanda Tiwari

Excellent book for using as a guide for assessment

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 March 2013

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I really like using learning stories and this was a very good purchase when i was doing an assessment module for my BA in education it is so easy to create learning stories when working in the early years and they are so creative and very easy to explain what children are doing and the teaching is visible when using learning stories to do assessments i really would recommend this book to early years practitioners who are thinking of an easy way to do their assessments within their school. Excellent purchase with visual images and very colourful with numerous examples from schools using the learning stories. Please use learning stories very benefical for children and parents.

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Cyndi

Out of date

Reviewed in Canada on 11 October 2020

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Older version not up to date for classes

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Learning Stories

Reviewed in the United States on 12 December 2019

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