Between Teaching and Caring in the Preschool

Talk, Interaction, and the Preschool Teacher Identity

John C. Pruit (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

212 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4587-7 (ISBN)

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In Between Teaching and Caring in the Preschool, John C. Pruit argues that preschool teaching is more than a set of roles and duties tied to institutional expectations. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork, twenty-three interviews and countless conversations with preschool teachers, and analysis of preschool documents, Pruit opens the black box of the preschool to show the complexity of the preschool teacher identity as it unfolds in everyday practices of teaching and caring. His analysis of preschool teachers’ talk and interaction addresses pertinent sociological and early childhood education themes, including classroom management, social control, emotions, and identity construction. He demonstrates there is more going on in the preschool than teaching young children and caring for them. Through practices of classroom management and teaching language, preschool teachers socialize children into education contexts and exert social control in and through teaching practices. By managing emotions, preschool teachers also manage impressions of themselves and the preschool. He also shows how preschool teachers use resources like Montessori pedagogy and their lived experience to construct authenticity. Pruit concludes that institutions, such as ECE, shape identities within and away from the institution.

John C. Pruit is assistant professor of sociology in the Department of Anthropology, Geography, and Sociology at Stephen F. Austin State University.

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Organization of Ellis Montessori Preschool

Chapter 2: Transforming Structural Problems into Everyday Challenges

Chapter 3: Everyday Imagination, Producing Belonging, and Producing Autonomy

Chapter 4: Classroom Management: Social Control by Another Name

Chapter 5: Empathy, Affection, and Deeper Bonds

Chapter 6: Emotion Management in the Preschool

Chapter 7: Montessori, Child-Centeredness, and Authenticity

Chapter 8: Assembling Preschool Teachers

Conclusion: Between Teaching and Caring at Ellis Montessori Preschool

References

Erscheinungsdatum	22.05.2020
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 219 mm
Gewicht	299 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	1-4985-4587-4 / 1498545874
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-4587-7 / 9781498545877
Zustand	Neuware