| MUTANT Project 3 'Peacemaking among
young children in childcare centres'
This research and training project in multicultural child care
settings focuses on:
how young children play together,
how they solve and prevent conflicts among each other,
how educators interventions effect children's conflicts,
which norms, values and educational practice do parents
of different ethnic-cultural backgrounds have in conflict solving?
The research results will be used in developing a training for educators
aiming to promote togetherness and playing together in a children's
group, to use a various strategies to prevent and to solve conflicts.
Reflecting on one's own values and norms as well as on these of
the parents' is part of the training.
Research team:
Elly Singer, Dorian de Haan, University of Utrecht
Training development: Bureau MUTANT, Anke van Keulen
Information:
Singer, E. (2002). The logic of young children's (non-verbal)
behavior. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 10,
55-66.
Singer, E., & Hännikäinen, M. (2002). The teacher's
role in territorial conflicts of two and three years old children.
Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 17, 5-18.
Singer, E. & Haan, D. de (2003). 'Use your words.'
A sociocultural approach to the teacher's role in the transition
from physical to verbal strategies of resolving peer conflicts among
toddlers Journal of Early Childhood Research.
Contact: mutantbm@wxs.nl
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