Children's bricolage under the gaze of teachers in sociodramatic play
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3103563 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Po Chi Tam (Education University of Hong Kong), Po-chi Tam (0000-0002-8252-7599, Education University of Hong Kong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 244-259 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Childhood (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0907-5682 • E-ISSN: 1461-7013 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0907568212461036 |
| OpenAlex | W2101708194 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 23 |
Drawing on the theory of dialogism and the literature on children's culture and cultural resistance, this article investigates the contextual and textual features of the cultural making of a group of children in sociodramatic play in a Hong Kong kindergarten. Different from other, similar studies, this study reports that under the gaze of the teacher, children's play is largely practised as a reproduction of the teacher's cultural texts. Children's culture or resistance only arises as a bricolage of various cultural texts in which the cultural texts of the teacher and the children are intertwined, dissonant and hybridized. Two major modes of bricolage are identified. They are hybridization and invalidation. This result suggests that the teacher's strategies and authoritarian discourse are suppressive of the children's culture, aiming largely to shape the way and process of their cultural making. Nonetheless, from the evidence in this study, it is believed that bricoleur is a creative act as it involves tactful and creative appropriation, orchestration and transformation of all sorts of cultural texts which are at hand. The pretend play corner is consequently reframed and recreated as a heteroglot playing space of the children's own
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Art · Bricolage · Dialogic · Gaze · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Visual arts · Creative Drama in Education · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies
Children's Peer Cultures
The Dialogic Imagination
Language as a Local Practice
Ways of Speaking
Imagination and Creativity in Childhood
The art of case study research
Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking
Ethnography
Spaces of Participation in Pre‐School
Difficulties of Hong Kong teachers’ understanding and implementation of ‘play’ in the curriculum
Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture
Language Socialization
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |