USING THE SOCIOCULTURAL CONCEPT OF LEARNING ACTIVITY TO UNDERSTAND PARENTS' LEARNING ABOUT PLAY IN COMMUNITY PLAYGROUPS AND SOCIAL MEDIA

This paper considers utilising the sociocultural concept of learning activity to understand parents' learning about young children's play in the context of community playgroups and social media use. Parents' knowledge about children's play influences the provision of parental-pro...

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Published in:British journal of educational studies 2021-01, Vol.69 (1), p.83-99
Main Author: McLean, Karen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Child development
Childhood
children
Community
Community Relations
early childhood
Early childhood education
Education
Foreign Countries
Group Activities
Learning
Learning Activities
learning activity
Mass media
Parent Education
Parent Participation
parents
Parents & parenting
Personal development
Play based learning
Playgroups
Reflection
Social Media
Social networks
Sociocultural factors
Sociocultural Patterns
Sociocultural theory
Young Children
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Summary:This paper considers utilising the sociocultural concept of learning activity to understand parents' learning about young children's play in the context of community playgroups and social media use. Parents' knowledge about children's play influences the provision of parental-provided play experiences for young children and can be enhanced through participation in a community playgroup. Increasingly, playgroup parents are using social media to communicate about children's play at playgroup and this social situation for learning about play is yet to be theorised for maximising young children's access to play-based learning experiences in early childhood. Learning activity as a sociocultural concept, recognises learning as an activity for self-development. It has been applied to formal education contexts but has not been used to understand parents' learning in informal early childhood education contexts. This paper explores its potential for generating new knowledge about parents' learning about play in the home and community by conceptualising learning as an activity enacted within the social situation of community playgroups and social media. Implications for the mobilisation of this social situation are framed in the context of parent engagement in early childhood education.
ISSN:0007-1005
1467-8527
DOI:10.1080/00071005.2020.1724258