Joint waking activity in early childhood education as a collaborative configuration of care
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Although sleeping and waking are everyday activities and inherent parts of being human, they are rarely considered social, collaborative, or educational. In this study, we explore practices of waking young children up in institutional interaction. Taking a cultural-historical approach and using a video-observation method, we investigated how young children (1–5 years old) and adults participate in joint waking activity after nap time in early childhood education. We asked how joint waking activity creates learning opportunities for children to collaborate as valuable members of the early childhood education community. Our results show that waking activity creates opportunities for children to learn to care for each other and to become sensitive to other children’s needs. Waking moments that involve encountering sleeping and just-awakened members of the community invite caring responses from co-participant children and create collaborative configurations of care. We discuss how our concept, collaborative configuration of care, offers cultural-historical theory new insights into everyday guiding and learning.
Source: Mind Culture and Activity
Authors: Annukka Pursi, Asta Cekaite, Lasse Lipponen
Institutions: University of Helsinki, Linköping University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4414072795