Portfolio Week 4 - 26/9/13 Literacy and Numeracy 0-4 years 2.2
What is a text Participant?
Cathy Stanbury
This
week’s workshop on ‘What is a text Participant’? challenged my own thinking. That
night I continued to make my own comparison’s to our discussion even asking my
husband ‘What he thought a text
participant was?’ His quick reply was ‘a person who text’s on their phone.’ Could we consider the foundation for
being a text participant starts with the foundation in early childhood
continuing throughout life? As an adult
passionate about learning whilst facing the challenges of being a team player
in a relatively new learning environment myself, can this be seen as aligning itself with a
child’s start in a early childhood
centre also experiencing their new environment
with all the challenges.
In
class we discussed text participant and its meaning with multiply lists on the ideas
of what the meaning was. There was to be no right or wrong answers, which gave
the group an open minded discussion on words that they thought best, described
the meaning in relation to children. The words we came up with were ‘making
meaning of the things a child is involved in’ supported by encouragement of
parents and teachers.
Looking
at a definition of text participants: ‘someone who is active in the situation’
which brings aspects of: interpreting,
distinguishing, explanations and comparing in the environment. For the
continuity of learning as a child the parent and educator need to interpret the
child’s personal meaning regarding the experience for continuing scaffolded
text participation. Examples to
encourage this could be:
1. Age
appropriate resources
2. Positive
association with family relevance
3. Familiarity
4. Cultural
relevance
5. Child
animated behaviours
6. Childs
participation in group activity
As a text
participant child or adult a key component for the user would be the use texts
in real life situations:
Adults: in the
workplace, leisure and social settings
Children: in
social settings, early childhood centres and schools
As an educator
it could easily be an option to engage children in our knowledge, skills and
processes rather than using both the social practices and resources combined.
Parents and
educators have the opportunity to connect and embed the real life reading
practices in children regarding early stimulation for Literacy and Numeracy.
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