Listening to Young Children, Expanded Third Edition : A Guide to Understanding and Using the Mosaic Approach.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (194 pages)
Intro -- Listening to Young Children - A Guide to Understanding and Using the Mosaic Approach by Alison Clark -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the third edition -- 1. A Framework for Listening -- Introduction -- Starting points -- The framework for listening -- 2. Listening to Young Children - Developing the Mosaic Approach -- Introduction -- The Listening to Young Children study (1999-2000) -- Stages of the Mosaic approach -- Stage One: Children and adults gathering documentation -- Stage Two: Piecing together information for dialogue, reflection and interpretation -- Discussion -- 3. Spaces to Play - Adapting the Mosaic Approach -- Introduction -- Spaces to Play -- Stage One: gathering children's and adults' perspectives -- Stage Two: Discussing the material -- Stage Three: Deciding areas of continuity and change -- Evaluation -- Changes into practice -- Discussion -- 4. Case Studies - Working with the Mosaic Approach -- Introduction -- Discussion -- 5. Ethical and Methodological Questions -- Introduction -- Questions -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Further reading about the Mosaic approach -- Appendix -- References -- Subject Index -- Author Index -- Blank Page.
This fully updated expanded book explains how to use the Mosaic approach, a practice that instils the importance of listening to children's life experiences. It shows how to use it in a variety of settings, outlines the future directions of the approach, offers case studies and also covers working with vulnerable children.