Rogers, Susan;
Lapping, Claudia;
(2012)
Recontextualising ‘play’ in early years pedagogy : Competence, performance and excess in policy and practice.
British Journal of Educational Studies
, 60
(3)
pp. 243-260.
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Abstract
This paper traces the way discourses within early years policy and practice impose meanings onto the signifier ‘play’. Drawing on Bernstein’s conceptualisation of recontextualising strategies, we explore how these meanings regulate troubling excesses in children’s ‘play’. The analysis foregrounds an underlying question about the hold the signifier ‘play’ maintains within discourses that appear antithetical to traditional understandings of ‘play’. Keywords: play, Bernstein, early years, recontextualising strategies, pedagogic discourse
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Recontextualising ‘play’ in early years pedagogy : Competence, performance and excess in policy and practice |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | play, Bernstein, early years, recontextualising strategies,, Age Group |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10011604 |
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