TY - JOUR
T1 - Situating Culturally Embodied Play Ecologies of Preschool Children
T2 - Lost in Transition
AU - de López, Kristine Jensen
PY - 2018/9/1
Y1 - 2018/9/1
N2 - This article contributes as a commentary to Min’s critical evaluation of the challenges and resistances that have presented themselves during the recent process of changing the pedagogical practices ofChinese preschools to more closely resemble those seen in Scandinavian. The focus is on how decisions of how to structure the particular environment in preschool settings have direct and indirect implications for children’s learning and learning possibilities, and the importance of understanding these as mediated signifiers of the particular culture values. The discussions stress the importance of weighing cross-cultural pedagogical practices in terms of the functions they each serve in themselves, and in regard to the sociocultural history from which they have emerged and serve within. This means enculturation of new didactic practices should be understood as a gradual, smooth processes that allows itself to merge useful aspects of new educational models and practices with existing practices and cultural values.
AB - This article contributes as a commentary to Min’s critical evaluation of the challenges and resistances that have presented themselves during the recent process of changing the pedagogical practices ofChinese preschools to more closely resemble those seen in Scandinavian. The focus is on how decisions of how to structure the particular environment in preschool settings have direct and indirect implications for children’s learning and learning possibilities, and the importance of understanding these as mediated signifiers of the particular culture values. The discussions stress the importance of weighing cross-cultural pedagogical practices in terms of the functions they each serve in themselves, and in regard to the sociocultural history from which they have emerged and serve within. This means enculturation of new didactic practices should be understood as a gradual, smooth processes that allows itself to merge useful aspects of new educational models and practices with existing practices and cultural values.
KW - Chinese
KW - Cross-cultural socialisation
KW - Danish
KW - Ecology
KW - Embodiment
KW - Play
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85048853887&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s12124-018-9439-5
DO - 10.1007/s12124-018-9439-5
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85048853887
SN - 1932-4502
VL - 52
SP - 401
EP - 408
JO - Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
JF - Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
IS - 3
M1 - 52
ER -