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    Innovation and self-organisation: The documentation of Central Character story

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    Mayo, E.
    Henson, K.
    Smith, H.
    Date
    2010
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3877

    This paper describes a teaching innovation where a “Central Character” was interwoven with the stories shared in a kindergarten, and how that innovation was documented. The paper traces the origins and evolution of the notion of a Central Character, what directed it and what children, families and teachers learned through it. We found that the central character concept was the vehicle used by this kindergarten to build family connections and support holistic learning for children and their families. We gained deep understandings about the values, threads of learning and historical and environmental teaching practices that underpinned the use of Central Character stories. This paper explores some of the key methodological insights that guided and emerged from our research. The authors argue first that the sociocultural understandings of learning which underpin the early childhood curriculum point towards collaborative ways of researching and learning about the impacts of our practices as teachers and researchers, second that understandings of complexity thinking and theory about selforganising systems can enable teachers involved in practice-based research to be innovative in their investigations, and third, that the collective knowledge which emerges as we work together influences the culture of the learning community.

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    innovation
     
    complexity thinking
     
    learning community
     
    practice-based research
     
    Fields of Research::330000 Education::330100 Education Studies::330110 Early childhood education
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