Open Access"Literate Playing”—An Oral Language Empowerment Strategy for Underprivileged Children
Author(s) -
Gisela Wajskop
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
language and literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1496-0974
DOI - 10.20360/g2495q
Subject(s) - empowerment , psychological intervention , literacy , professional development , action research , early childhood , psychology , pedagogy , action (physics) , early childhood education , quality (philosophy) , medical education , developmental psychology , political science , medicine , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , psychiatry , law
This article describes an ongoing collaborative action research study, and presents initial observations of the outcomes of teachers’ interventions in early childhood education centres in a major Brazilian city. Designed as a professional development initiative, the action research is based on a view of a quality program being one that offers both play-based learning and linguistically enriching experiences for children and opportunities for professional learning of its professionals to support those same programs in a personal, self-confident, and collective manner. It presents initial observations of the outcomes of teachers’ interventions in four non-governmental early childhood education centres, and some implications the results can suggest for the NOW Play Project.