The babies’ perspective: emotional experience of their creative acts

Liang Li, Avis Ridgway, Gloria Quiñones

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    Abstract

    How do adults take babies’ perspective to support their learning during transitory cultural events such as family routines in daily life? Explorations in the research site of three babies’ daily lives are used to investigate this question. In this study, Vygotsky’s (The problem of the environment. In: van der Veer R, Valsiner J (eds) The Vygotsky reader. Blackwell, Oxford, 338–354, 1994) cultural-historical concept of perezhivanie (emotional experience) informs the research. This chapter focuses in particular on exploring babies’ perezhivanie (emotional experience) of spontaneous creative acts in family life events which inform how parents/adults can take babies’ perspective and reciprocally engage in such transitory moments. Visual methodology is applied in the research to frame the analysis of babies’ everyday experiences with families. The chapter analyses expressive daily life events of three babies (with cultural heritages from Australia, China and Mexico) and unpacks the various dimensions of parent-baby shared daily practices. Babies’ emotional experience of their creative acts with parents are discussed, in order to uncover the pedagogical strategies parents/adults use to engage with babies.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationStudying Babies and Toddlers
    Subtitle of host publicationRelationships in Cultural Contexts
    EditorsLiang Li, Gloria Quinones, Avis Ridgway
    Place of PublicationSingapore Singapore
    PublisherSpringer
    Chapter3
    Pages29-48
    Number of pages20
    Edition1st
    ISBN (Electronic)9789811031977
    ISBN (Print)9789811031953
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2017

    Publication series

    NameInternational Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development
    PublisherSpringer
    Volume20
    ISSN (Print)2468-8746
    ISSN (Electronic)2468-8754

    Keywords

    • Babies’ perspective
    • Creative acts
    • Emotional expression
    • Perezhivanie

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