Intentionality and Expertise
Learning from Observations of Children at Play in Multilingual, Multicultural Contexts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2471019 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Long (0000-0002-6677-3642, University of South Carolina, corresponding author), Susi Long |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 239-259 |
| Publication date | 2007-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology & Education Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-7761 • E-ISSN: 1548-1492 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/aeq.2007.38.3.239 |
| OpenAlex | W2039932509 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article draws from three ethnographic studies of children playing sociodramatically in multilingual, multicultural contexts. Countering a deficit perspective that focuses on what children from nondominant cultures do not know, we use the concept of syncretism to illuminate children's expertise and intentionality as they blend knowledge from multiple worlds to reinvent cultural practices and create new spaces for learning. Findings encourage educators to learn from the syncretic nature of children's teaching and learning through play
Intentionality · Syncretism (linguistics · Early Childhood Education and Development · Education and Technology Integration · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
Multilingual children’s imaginative worlds and their language use
Engaging in and creatively reproducing translanguaging practices with peers
Double-voicing and rubber ducks
Translanguaging for varying discourse functions in sociodramatic play
All in a Day’s Play
Collaborative research into the “hidden worlds” of children’s peer reading
Conducting qualitative video research with young children
Not a Waste of Time
Constructing Literacy Spaces in Low-Income Homes and Communities
Everyday Stories for Everyday People
Literacy‐based Play with Young Emergent Bilinguals
Children's multilingual role play
"Interrogating the "gold standard
Siblings' play and language shift to English in a Malay-English bilingual family in Singapore
Contradictions, clashes, cominglings
Writing Culture
The professional stranger
Dialogic Inquiry
Many Pathways to Literacy
Apprenticeship in Thinking
Creating zones of possibilities
The Interpretation of Cultures
Ways with Words
Rethinking diversity
An Introduction to Social Anthropology
Coach Bombay’s Kids Learn to Write
A Longitudinal Study of the Predictive Relations Among Symbolic Play, Linguistic Verbs, and Early Literacy
Learning to Get Along
Cultivating Hybrid Texts in Multicultural Classrooms
What counts as reading in the early years' classroom
| Citations per year | 1.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |