After writing my mini essay, I have created themes/ topic areas in which I can place my questions into categories:
Provision (the need to provide)
The nursery being seen as a company or a business that provides a service
What is the service?
Looking after and caring for a child?
To develop and begin a child’s education?
Is this service more beneficial than keeping a child at home?
Social Skills (Education = Learning Environment)
Concept of sharing
Is sharing educational?
Can this concept only be achieved in a nursery environment?
Is there relationship between nurseries and only children?
Use of Lexis (The word Birth)
Babies do not come straight out of a mother’s womb into a nursery
What are the youngest age nursery take children?
Is the word Birth quick and easier to say?
When does a child’s education begin?
Do people believe that these document’s help children?
Do the documents actually benefit the child?
Do the documents just uphold a type of structure for the nursery?
(The word matters)
The connotations of this word implies that it is vital
If a child gets taken out or changes nursery or starts at a later stage are they at a disadvantage?
Does this mean that a child is missing out on a vital part of their education?
The role of the Imagination
Imagination used in play
Learning through imagination and play – Is this more effective than carrying out classroom tasks?
Imagination
What does it mean?
Where does it come from?
How is it used?
Is it an internal process? That is used by an individual on an intrapersonal level
If this is so, why is it being used in context with educating a group of nursery children?
Can you tell/teach somebody how to use their imagination?
Do education and imagination have a relationship?
What does the language mean or what is the policy trying to convey when placing education and imagination in the same document?
The word construction
· Dictatorship
1. Ofsted Inspections
2. Sure Start Meetings
· Framework
1. Laying out requirements for nursery education
Connotations of the word policy
· Ruling and obeying
1. Due to the document being associated with the Government is this why is it considered important?
2. Does the document only have a sense of ‘power’ because it is used with the word policy?
· Advice and Guidelines
1. How is the document perceived?
2. Is it just a framework?
1 comment:
These are interesting categories/themes and from them I think we can begin to see how the debate about childcare/provision is being framed.
Once the proposal is in I want you to delve into the work of LakoffYou might remember his ideas on metaphor which we covered in Language, thought and representation.
His work on framing debates in the political field will, I think be very important for you.
Ask me for the link to his video lecture.
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