Reflecting on the place of dialogue and the nature of adult motivations within early childhood research

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Laura Tallant

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Book review: Albon, D. & Rosen, R. (2014) Negotiating Adult - Child Relationships in Early Childhood Research, London: Routledge.

This book review focuses on a number of themes highlighted within the book. Firstly, it discusses the authors’ suggestion that Bakhtin can assist researchers in addressing entrenched, authoritative assumptions in an attempt to gain fresh perspectives. It moves on to consider the authors’ view on how researchers might valuably reframe common research activities, in order that research with young children reflects the dialogic nature of research relationships.

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Tallant, L. (2015). Reflecting on the place of dialogue and the nature of adult motivations within early childhood research. Dialogic Pedagogy: A Journal for Studies of Dialogic Education, 3. https://doi.org/10.5195/dpj.2015.147
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Book Reviews
Author Biography

Laura Tallant, University of East Anglia

Laura Tallant is a PhD researcher and Associate Tutor within the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia. Her PhD research focuses on viewing young children's humour, as it occurs in a nursery environment, through a carnivalesque lens. Further, she is interested in how a Bakhinian perspective on young children's humour might help early childhood practitioners to support young children's experiences in nursery settings more effectively, and subsequently facilitate and enhance adult/child relationships.