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EJ584422 PS529136

Title: Collaboration, Conflict, and Change: Thoughts on Education as Provocation.
Author(s):Jones, Elizabeth; Nimmo, John
Source: Young Children, v54 n1 p5-10 Jan 1999
Publication Date: 1999
ISSN: 0044-0728
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Opinion papers (120)
Journal Announcement: CIJNOV1999

Examines how provocation and willingness to become engaged can contribute to collaboration and enhance the learning process among young children. Discusses the role of collaboration in the emergent curriculum, factors to consider before expecting learners to collaborate, ways of sustaining conflict, and use of doubt to practice critical thinking about one's own and others' experiences and beliefs. (KB)

Descriptors: Change Strategies; *Conflict; *Cooperation; *Critical Thinking; Dissent; Early Childhood Education; Educational Practices; Preschool Curriculum
Identifiers: Emergent Curriculum; Student Engagement

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