Full Description
This book outlines the key findings from the ADVOST project and other international projects that examine how educational practitioners have utilised theoretical notions of voice and agency to enhance the social inclusion and wellbeing of children within their settings.
Bringing together findings from three project case studies that are each placed in a different national context, chapters explore theoretical principles of space, audience and influence to facilitate and enhance the voices of very young children. Focusing on diversity as an opportunity rather than a challenge, the book provides collaboratively written and regionally diverse chapters that ultimately contribute to a growing field on literature examining how young people might be included in culturally sensitive and responsive ways within education, recognising the diversity that young people, their families and communities bring to educational processes to provide an inclusive education for all.
Offering multiple perspectives and insights into our growing understanding of children's voice and agency in diverse settings, this book will be of relevance to scholars, researchers and academics in the fields of primary education, multicultural education, early years and educational research, and child development studies.
Contents
Part 1: Key Theoretical Ideas
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Being well, being in the community, having voice and agency through practical philosophy
Chapter 3: An exploration of practices for rights-based education through promoting voice in the early years: Building a spider's web
Chapter 4: The sociomateriality of voice and its implications for research with children: Voice-as-event in an intergenerational art program
Part 2: ADVOST Case Studies
Chapter 5: Children's Identity and Agency in an Art Gallery: Voices in the Making
Chapter 6: Using Children's Literature to Augment Children's Multimodal Voices and Agency: Placelessness in the Classroom
Chapter 7: Teachers' perspectives on Sami culture-based pedagogical innovations promoting children's agency in online Sami language classes
Chapter 8: Exploring Sámi language instruction for young learners: Comparative case studies in Finland and Norway
Chapter 9: Space and Time as Pedagogical Tools for Facilitating Voice and Agency
Chapter 10: An approach to developing community that supports voice and agency in education settings: Circles of Trust
Chapter 11: Advancing Young Children's Inclusion and Agency in Society Through Voice and Story: A Reflection
