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“Look Mother! Mother Look!”: Young Children Exploring Life with Their Mother

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In this chapter, we present a study generated with young children in their home context. The focus of the study is on how young children explore and make sense of their lives through drawing stories. The chapter is based on a study that began with two sisters, Anna (3) and Maria (1.5), who made drawings of their daily lives and the changes in their lives when their younger sister was born. By examining extracts from the 5-year investigation, this chapter considers how the aesthetics and narration intertwine with the knowledge construction processes in the children’s daily lives. The research practice shifted over time from following and listening to the children’s drawing processes toward co-drawing.

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The original study from which this chapter drew was funded by the Finnish Academy (TelLis-Project, 21892) and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

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Kinnunen, S., Einarsdóttir, J. (2017). “Look Mother! Mother Look!”: Young Children Exploring Life with Their Mother. In: Narey, M. (eds) Multimodal Perspectives of Language, Literacy, and Learning in Early Childhood. Educating the Young Child, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44297-6_6

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