Pedagogical Documentation in Early Childhood Education - Process-Oriented Procedures for Documenting Education and Development

Today, the documentation of children's education and development is an important part of educational work in early childhood education. This book systematises the topic of pedagogical documentation based on current empirical research. The book analyses different pedagogical reasons for documentation and then presents and discusses different procedures of pedagogical documentation in theory and empirical practice : Portfolio, Learning Stories, pedagogical documentation in the room, project documentation and digital pedagogical documentation. Pedagogical documentation is discussed in the tension between a social constructivist understanding of education on the one hand and a diagnostic logic of fostering on the other. The book is intended as a part of pedagogically oriented childhood research, which also wants to contribute to the reflection and improvement of pedagogical practice.

List of contents

Pedagogical justifications for documentation in day care centres.- Documentation in the educational plans.- Theoretical and empirical analysis of the forms and styles of educational documentation.

About the author

Dr. habil. Helen Knauf is Professor of Early Childhood Education at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Knauf
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Original title: Bildungsdokumentation in Kindertageseinrichtungen
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2022
• EAN: 9783658397357
• ISBN: 978-3-658-39735-7
• No. of pages: 139
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 8 mm x 210 mm
• Illustrations: VIII, 139 p. 40 illus.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Kindergarten and pre-school education