Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6850966 | Teaching and Teacher Education | 2015 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
In this study we examine how improvisation can facilitate understanding how teachers respond to children's multiple resources, interests, experiences, and skills in early childhood programs. Improvisation is conceptualized as a responsive, partnered activity through which teachers and children generate meaning and knowledge together. In our analysis we show improvisation is taken up differently in two classrooms and how it variably provides opportunities for learning. Two cases from a professional development program designed to support culturally and developmentally appropriate early mathematics are used to demonstrate the possibilities improvisation creates in era of increasing standardization of curriculum.
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Authors
M. Elizabeth Graue, Kristin Lyn Whyte, Anne Elizabeth Karabon,