Hackett, A. (2015) Young Children as Wayfarers: Learning about Place by Moving Through It. Children & Society. ISSN 0951-0605
Abstract
This article describes the walking and moving of young children around places. It is based on an ethnographic study of children aged between 24 and 36 months visiting a museum. Drawing on Ingold's (2007) concept of wayfaring, the author argues movement through place creates embodied, tacit ways of knowing and experiencing the world. This embodied and tacit knowledge is not well-accounted for in dominant models of how young children learn. In this study, wayfaring both enabled the children to learn about places and routes, and led to the development of traditions, in which collective meanings and actions were attached to particular locations.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd and National Children's Bureau. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Children & Society. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | ethnography; museum; movement; place; time |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Education (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 09 Jun 2015 14:47 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jul 2017 06:30 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/chso.12130 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/chso.12130 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:86870 |