The Mall, the Library and the Church: Inquiring into the Resourcing of Early Learning through New Spaces and Networks

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Main Authors: Nichols, Sue, Rainbird, Sophia
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 2013
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author Nichols, Sue
Rainbird, Sophia
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Rainbird, Sophia
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Rainbird, Sophia
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contents The Mall, the Library and the Church: Inquiring into the Resourcing of Early Learning through New Spaces and Networks Nichols, Sue Rainbird, Sophia Early Childhood Education Suburbs Foreign Countries Experiential Learning School Community Relationship Semiotics Geographic Location Place Based Education Ethnography Playgrounds Libraries Qualitative Research Early learning has increasingly been the focus of social policy and programmes with a proliferation of public, community and commercial entities entering the field of production. Understanding this phenomenon requires educational researchers to conceptualise early learning both within a globalised network of circulating commodities and within specific situated spaces of local sociocultural practice. This paper describes how a research project has drawn on geosemiotic and actor-network theories, and employed spatially sensitive methods, to investigate the resourcing of early learning in spaces new to most educational researchers. Focusing on the suburban field site "Midburb:" we analyse the ways in which discourses operate through/in place producing different entry points, pathways and access for parents, impacting on their opportunities for encountering early learning resources. (Contains 4 figures.)
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spellingShingle The Mall, the Library and the Church: Inquiring into the Resourcing of Early Learning through New Spaces and Networks
Nichols, Sue
Rainbird, Sophia
Early Childhood Education
Suburbs
Foreign Countries
Experiential Learning
School Community Relationship
Semiotics
Geographic Location
Place Based Education
Ethnography
Playgrounds
Libraries
Qualitative Research
The Mall, the Library and the Church: Inquiring into the Resourcing of Early Learning through New Spaces and Networks Nichols, Sue Rainbird, Sophia Early Childhood Education Suburbs Foreign Countries Experiential Learning School Community Relationship Semiotics Geographic Location Place Based Education Ethnography Playgrounds Libraries Qualitative Research Early learning has increasingly been the focus of social policy and programmes with a proliferation of public, community and commercial entities entering the field of production. Understanding this phenomenon requires educational researchers to conceptualise early learning both within a globalised network of circulating commodities and within specific situated spaces of local sociocultural practice. This paper describes how a research project has drawn on geosemiotic and actor-network theories, and employed spatially sensitive methods, to investigate the resourcing of early learning in spaces new to most educational researchers. Focusing on the suburban field site "Midburb:" we analyse the ways in which discourses operate through/in place producing different entry points, pathways and access for parents, impacting on their opportunities for encountering early learning resources. (Contains 4 figures.)
title The Mall, the Library and the Church: Inquiring into the Resourcing of Early Learning through New Spaces and Networks
topic Early Childhood Education
Suburbs
Foreign Countries
Experiential Learning
School Community Relationship
Semiotics
Geographic Location
Place Based Education
Ethnography
Playgrounds
Libraries
Qualitative Research
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1011257