Spaces to Play: More listening to young children using the Mosaic approach

Alison Clark · Peter Moss

mar 2005 · Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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Spaces to Play explains how to use innovative Mosaic approach with young children to ensure their perspectives are the starting point when planning planning outdoor environments in early years provision.

An ideal companion to the bestselling introduction, Listening to Young Children: The Mosaic approach, Spaces to Play draws on the findings of a pilot study which used the approach to listen to young children's views and experiences of their outdoor environment, and used the findings to to inform change. It describes how to adapt the Mosaic approach to work in outdoor spaces, demonstrates young children's competencies in expressing their perspectives and explores the links between listening and learning.

The book also outlines the challenges and future directions for practitioners and researchers in listening to young children.

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Alison Clark is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education, London and a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Alison pioneered the Mosaic approach with Peter Moss and has contributed many published articles, books and book chapters on listening to and researching with young children.

Peter Moss is a Professor at the Faculty of Children and Learning, Thomas Coram Research Unit. He has wide-ranging research interests including services for children, the children’s workforce, democratic practice in children’s services, gender issues in work with children, social pedagogy and radical education. Peter is widely published.