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How is childhood power and powerlessness expressed in the outdoor preschool classroom? A narrative ethnographic exploration

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dc.contributor.authorHaywood-Bird, Eden, author
dc.contributor.authorTimpson, William M., advisor
dc.contributor.authorQuick, Don, committee member
dc.contributor.authorJennings, Louise, committee member
dc.contributor.authorFernández-Giménez, María E., committee member
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T06:08:47Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T06:08:47Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation seeks to deconstruct the complex social and cultural understandings of a classroom of two- and-a half through five-year-old preschool children and what it means to be powerful and powerless in their outdoor classroom. Based on constructivist and critical theoretical foundations, and using traditional ethnographic methods of inquiry coupled with the narrative approach to storytelling, the questions around what it means to wield power, be powerful with others, and what the role of powerlessness is in their lives in the outdoor classroom are explored. Through the children experiences with the participant-observer researcher and captured through use of the children's own voices in the telling of their stories the author seeks to explore the ways children perceive their own power and powerlessness through their actions, both physical and emotional, in the outdoors.
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dc.format.mediumdoctoral dissertations
dc.identifierETDF2013500302EDUC
dc.identifierHaywoodBird_colostate_0053A_12110.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/80946
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartof2000-2019
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dc.subjectpreschool
dc.subjectoutdoor play
dc.subjectpowerlessness
dc.subjectpower
dc.subjectchoice
dc.subjectearly childhood
dc.titleHow is childhood power and powerlessness expressed in the outdoor preschool classroom? A narrative ethnographic exploration
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thesis.degree.disciplineEducation
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

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