Narrative, imagination, philosophy and the young child (age 3-6)
Monday 18 April 4.30-6pm
Room G22, Jubilee Building, University of Sussex
In this seminar, Dr Sue Lyle, Director of Dialogue Exchange, will explore the idea that narrative understanding is the primary meaning-making tool and that, alongside imagination, it is central to learning – especially for the young child engaged in play.
She draws on the work of Kieran Egan and the power of children’s emotions and imaginations by alerting us to the abstractions of the fantasy world of the young child and her capacity to engage with metaphor.
Sue will also draw on her work in schools using the story-telling curriculum and philosophy by children with adults where the context of the play, the connections with other human beings and non-human objects endlessly constructs and reconstructs ‘child-story-artefact-movement-talk’ assemblages.
This seminar will be of interest to early years/foundation stage practitioners and researchers and those from policy who are interested in how models of the child underpin current government directives.
This event is hosted by the Centre for Teaching and Learning Research (CTLR).