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The Babies’ Perspective: Emotional Experience of Their Creative Acts

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How do adults take babies’ perspective to support their learning during transitory cultural events such as family routines in daily life? Explorations in the research site of three babies’ daily lives are used to investigate this question. In this study, Vygotsky’s (The problem of the environment. In: van der Veer R, Valsiner J (eds) The Vygotsky reader. Blackwell, Oxford, 338–354, 1994) cultural-historical concept of perezhivanie (emotional experience) informs the research. This chapter focuses in particular on exploring babies’ perezhivanie (emotional experience) of spontaneous creative acts in family life events which inform how parents/adults can take babies’ perspective and reciprocally engage in such transitory moments. Visual methodology is applied in the research to frame the analysis of babies’ everyday experiences with families. The chapter analyses expressive daily life events of three babies (with cultural heritages from Australia, China and Mexico) and unpacks the various dimensions of parent-baby shared daily practices. Babies’ emotional experience of their creative acts with parents are discussed, in order to uncover the pedagogical strategies parents/adults use to engage with babies.

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Li, L., Ridgway, A., Quiñones, G. (2017). The Babies’ Perspective: Emotional Experience of Their Creative Acts. In: Li, L., Quiñones, G., Ridgway, A. (eds) Studying Babies and Toddlers. International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development, vol 20. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3197-7_3

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