Voicing Early Years Teachers-Subjective Experiences Through Maurice Sendak’s Outside Over There

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• 作者：Sandra Chang-Kredl (1)
  
• 关键词：Maurice Sendak ; Picture books ; Early childhood ; Adult reader ; Teacher subjectivity ; Narrative presentation
• 刊名：Children's Literature in Education
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：June 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：44
• 期：2
• 页码：174-190
• 全文大小：217KB
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• 作者单位：Sandra Chang-Kredl (1)
  
  1. Department of Education, Concordia University, LB-578-9, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8, Canada
  
• ISSN：1573-1693

文摘

In this article, I present a narrative conversation that combines six teachers-responses to Maurice Sendak’s picture book, Outside Over There (1981) with my own responses to their discussions and to the book. The purpose of this research is three-fold: first, to examine how children’s literature can be used to evoke reflections in early years teachers on how they make sense of their work with children; second, to conduct a close and shared reading of Sendak’s elusive story; and third, to experiment with a dialogic, narrative form of representation. Using a qualitative form of reader response and text analysis, I assembled content from a focus group discussion held with six early years teachers, in which they discussed Sendak’s book, Outside Over There, and combined data from their responses with my own readings. Sendak’s goblins, the lead protagonist of Outside Over There, Ida, Ida’s family, and the phrasing of “outside over there-provided symbols around which the teachers discussed their professional vulnerabilities, including their subjective experiences of being undervalued in society. The picture book’s defamiliarizing effect helped the teachers question their own difficult emotions in realizing themselves within the broader field of education, and offered tools with which they could articulate the value of their “demanding internal adventures-(Cech, Angels and Wild Things: The Archetypal Poetics of Maurice Sendak, 1995, p. 237).