Brand new and expanded edition of Professor Alison Clark’s groundbreaking book on the Mosaic approach – over 9,000 copies sold
Viewing children as ‘experts in their own lives’, the Mosaic approach offers a creative framework for understanding young children’s perspectives through talking, walking, making and reviewing material with an adult. This book demonstrates how children’s views and experiences can lead the way in early childhood education. The multi-method approach brings together digital tools with interviewing and observation to enable adults to review current practice and implement change with children.
This updated edition develops the approach with new applications, case studies and adaptations for working in a post-Covid environment with young children. It also includes a new chapter on slow pedagogy, which explores how slowing your approach to early childhood education can make a huge difference to the everyday lives of young children.
Viewing children as ‘experts in their own lives’, the Mosaic approach offers a creative framework for understanding young children’s perspectives through talking, walking, making and reviewing material with an adult. This book demonstrates how children’s views and experiences can lead the way in early childhood education. The multi-method approach brings together digital tools with interviewing and observation to enable adults to review current practice and implement change with children.
This updated edition develops the approach with new applications, case studies and adaptations for working in a post-Covid environment with young children. It also includes a new chapter on slow pedagogy, which explores how slowing your approach to early childhood education can make a huge difference to the everyday lives of young children.
Reviews
Listening to Young Children is about more than how we hear children; it focuses on co-constructing knowledge(s) and engaging ethically with children's perspectives. New case studies extend practical research examples, showing how the Mosaic approach remains flexible and adaptive, placing children's capabilities, experiences, and participation at the centre of inquiry and understanding.
This new and expanded edition of the already seminal Listening to Young Children, adds masterful insights from Clark's pioneering slow pedagogy to the already loved and much employed mosaic approach, and will fast become THE foundational text for all who work with young children.