Play-Responsive Teaching in Early Childhood Education

Part I: Theoretical premises and research on playing and learning.- 1. Developing play-responsive didaktik - mission impossible?.- Teaching and learning in ECEC.- Different voices, arguments and standpoints.- Guidance for readers.- 2. Learning, teaching, and didaktik.- The processes and products of learning and development.- Teaching and its phylogenetic and ontogenetic development.- The 'what' of learning and didaktik.- 3. Playing, playworlds, and early childhood education.- A brief note on play theories.- The development of play: Actions, objects, and meaning.- Key references in research on play.- The diversity of beliefs about practices of play.- The sociogenesis of forms of play and its implication for ECEC.- 4. A combined research and development project.- Intersubjectivity and alterity.- Language as constitutive and perspectivizing.- The freedom of play and open-endedness.- As if and as is and learning from fiction.- Part II: Empirical studies.- Teachers' playing skills.- 5. The Lava-Shark: Teachers attempting to enter children's play.- 6. The Lion and the Mouse: How and why teachers succeed in becoming participants in children's play.- Responding to alterity.- Coordinating as if and as is.- 7. Goldilocks and her Motorcycle: Establishing narrative frames.- 8. The Triangle-Lady and The Three Billy Goats Gruff: Constituting contents for learning in play.- Playing and teaching as integrated activities.- 9. When Kroko-the-Crocodile got sick.- 10. The Magical Fruits: Establishing a narrative play frame for mutual problem solving.- 11. The Letter Thief: From playing to teaching to learning to playing.- Part III: Conclusions and theoretical elaboration.- 12. A play-responsive early childhood education didaktik.- References.