Are You ‘Avin a Laff?’
A pedagogical response to Bakhtinian carnivalesque in early childhood education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8858901 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Jayne White (0000-0002-1467-8125, University of Waikato, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 898-913 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-05 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00131857.2013.781497 |
| OpenAlex | W2069538529 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 22 |
Rabelaian carnivalesque provided philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin with a means of exploring the significance of humour through an examination of Middle Age peasant culture and the influence of the Renaissance on its legitimacy. This article argues that a similar phenomenon exists in modern educational settings and provides evidence to suggest that very young children are highly capable of working within this genre as a strategic orientation. It is proposed that the role of the early childhood teacher within this ‘underground culture’ is to be a dialogic partner who recognizes their dual horizontal and vertical roles as both insider and outsider: appreciating humour with children but expecting (and celebrating) the child’s position within a distinct culture that necessarily resides outside officialdom. In doing so, the article concludes that teachers will gain deeper appreciation of the important role of humour as a means of positioning the self within institutions characterized by power dynamics that are typically beyond the young child’s control. Moreover, the teacher has greater opportunities to recognize the potential of humour as a form of social mobility and agency on the part of the child
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Carnivalesque · Dialogic · Epistemology · Ethnography · Peasant · Pedagogy · Political science · Power (physics · Power structure · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Child Development and Digital Technology · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies · Themes in Literature Analysis
Emergent bilingual students’ use of humour in digital composing
The carnival as a transformative pedagogical practice for social change
Embracing the Carnivalesque
I want to appear like a virtuous teacher
Children’s subversive interactions in the school mealtime
Bakhtin in the fullness of time
Children's humour and the grotesque pleasures in school mealtime socialisation
The performance of compliance in early childhood
Utterance chains
Carnival and the Fake School
When the footlights are off
Children as researchers
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |