A Playful Orchestration in Narrative Expressions by Toddlers--A Contribution to the Understanding of Early Literacy as Event

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  • Author(s): Olaussen, Ingvild Olsen (ORCID Olaussen, Ingvild Olsen (ORCID 0000-0002-4052-2773)
  • Language:
    English
  • Source:
    Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development. 2022 42(2):137-150.
  • Publication Date:
    2022
  • Document Type:
    Journal Articles
    Reports - Research
  • Additional Information
    • Availability:
      Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • Source:
      14
    • Education Level:
      Early Childhood Education
      Elementary Education
      Kindergarten
      Primary Education
      Preschool Education
    • Subject Terms:
      Emergent Literacy; Toddlers; Narration; Story Telling; Nonverbal Communication; Motor Reactions; Acoustics; Phenomenology; Play; Ethnography; Video Technology; Preschools; Educational Philosophy; Foreign Countries; Oral Language; Tactual Perception
    • Subject Terms:
      Norway
    • Accession Number:
      10.1080/09575146.2019.1600138
    • ISSN:
      0957-5146
      1472-4421
    • Abstract:
      This article describes literacy competence in the narratives of toddlers and investigates how they make use of different modalities, like gestures, sounds and physical actions. The body phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty serves as a theoretical frame for the researcher's lens, which is an A/r/tographer's lens applied in multimodal narrative analysis. In this article, emerging literacy is studied as event connected to toddlers' playful storytelling. Using a micro-ethnographic narrative approach, the article paints a cultural portrait of children aged one to three years and their narrative expressions. The analysis is based on video recordings, observations and field notes collected in a kindergarten with 20 children as research participants. The examples, analyzed with the use of a multimodal matrix, reveal the meaning-making process in children's narrative expressions. The multimodal expressions in the toddlers' narratives are embodied and relational. The storytelling moments are literacy-as-event, because the moments are fluid, easily disturbed, but still reveal emergent narrative literacy. However, the child holds the key to each narrative expression. This is also a key to development of adults' competence in acknowledging the narrative competence of the child.
    • Abstract:
      As Provided
    • Publication Date:
      2022
    • Accession Number:
      EJ1353134