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Fundamental Features Embedded in a Humanistic Dialogical Approach to Children

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Now five core features and professional beliefs that pervade the presentation in Part II will be sketched. The features have been supported by recent research and shall be seen as specific child perspective-oriented, panhuman beliefs about a child’s “nature” and potentials. Guiding the understanding of the caregiver–child as dyad, such professional beliefs will have serious consequences for the relationship.

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    This is what in Levina’s term is called “the appeal of the face”.

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    Certainly fathers may have a similar commitment to the child as mothers. It is all about emotional investment and sensitization through experience.

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    In other contexts, they call this “intuitive child rearing” (Papousek & Papousek, 1991, p. 25).

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Sommer, D., Samuelsson, I.P., Hundeide, K. (2010). Fundamental Features Embedded in a Humanistic Dialogical Approach to Children. In: Child Perspectives and Children's Perspectives in Theory and Practice. International perspectives on early childhood education and development, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3316-1_5

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