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Reframing Infant-Toddler Pedagogy through a Lens of Professional Love: Exploring Narratives of Professional Practice in Early Childhood Settings in England
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Page, Jools – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2017
There is an increased international interest in how close attachment interactions with infants and toddlers are realised and interpreted by early years professionals. It is troubling for those who work in early years settings with infants and toddlers to know how best to demonstrate healthy loving attachment behaviours as an expectation of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Toddlers, Early Childhood Education
Revolutionary Love at Work in an Arctic School with Conflicts
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Lanas, Maija; Zembylas, Michalinos – Teaching Education, 2015
This paper explores how "revolutionary love" may be a viable response in a teacher's pedagogical practices. To do so, we present an in-depth case study of one teacher in a reindeer herding village in Finnish rural north. The paper asks what does revolutionary love mean in teaching practice and what distinguishes loving from non-loving…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Case Studies, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
Early Education Teachers' Conceptualizations and Strategies for Managing Closeness in Child Care: The Personal Domain
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Quan-McGimpsey, Sharon; Kuczynski, Leon; Brophy, Kathleen – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2011
This study investigated teachers' experiences of closeness during interactions with children in child care. Structured interviews were conducted with 24 female teachers who were teaching children between the ages of three and five (mean age = 3.9) regarding their conceptions of closeness, and their perceptions of their own and the child's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Environment, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Fighting, Loving, Teaching: An Exploration of Hope, Armed Love and Critical Pedagogies in Urban Teachers' Praxis
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Daniels, Emily – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to explore urban teachers' praxis with historically marginalized youth. Specifically I examined of the role of hope and armed love, as well as critical pedagogy as conceptualized and implemented in urban classrooms. The basis for this is the continued educational inequities for urban youth, and an exploration of the…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Teaching Methods, Urban Teaching, Critical Theory
"Street Love": How Street Life Oriented U. S. Born African Men Frame Giving Back to One Another and the Local Community
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Payne, Yasser Arafat; Hamdi, Hanaa A. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2009
This Participatory Action Research (PAR) project worked with four active street life oriented U. S. born African men, to document how a community sample of street life oriented U. S. born African men between the ages of 16-65, frame and use "street life" as a Site of Resiliency (Payne, Dissertation, 2005; "Journal of Black Psychology" 34(1):3-31,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Intimacy, Males, Participatory Research
Acculturation and Transformation among Female Immigrant Military Spouses in an ESL Learning Program at a Community College
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Darnell, Patricia – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study was designed to explore the acculturation experiences of military-related immigrant wives enrolled in an ESL program in a selected community college. More specifically, the purpose of the study was to understand the personal and structural forces that facilitated or hindered their acculturation process into their community of residence…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Immigrants, Females, Spouses