Welcome to this higher seminar with Amanda Bateman (GB), organised by Child Studies at the Department of Thematic Studies.
The seminar is made possible by the travel grant from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Linköping University. The seminar will be in English and everyone is welcome. No registration required.
About the talk
Increasingly, early childhood practitioners are tasked with finding and adapting methods for working with infants, toddlers and young children in ways which authentically align with children’s rights, positioning them as competent, capable learners . In parallel, early childhood academics are encouraged to engage in research with has a direct impact on and in society – to change professional practice for the better.
This talk aims to address these interrelated issues by exploring practitioner-led research that used multimodal conversation analysis [CA] as a rigorous method to investigate child-teacher interactions and their implications for learning. Video recordings of teacher-child interactions in the outdoor area in New Zealand, CA transcripts of moments of interest identified by the teacher-practitioners, and video of the ‘reflection and discussion’ meeting between teacher-practitioners and the researcher at the end of the study will be shown. The presentation will be concluded with a discussion on the potential implications of the CA approach for furthering professional practice in early childhood education.
About the speaker
Amanda Bateman is a Professor of Early Years at Birmingham City University. She has led various research projects where she uses conversation analysis to explore peer-peer relationships and teacher-child interactions. Findings from these projects have been disseminated through national and international conference presentations, academic journal articles, book chapters and books, including Early Childhood Education: The Co-Production of Knowledge and Relationships, and the co-edited (with Amelia Church) Children’s Knowledge-in-interaction: Studies in Conversation Analysis; Children and Mental Health Talk: Perspectives on Social Competence; and Talking with children: A handbook for early childhood education.