"That's My Voice! Participation and Citizenship in Early Childhood" by Monica Miller Marsh, Elizabeth A. Kenyon et al.

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That's My Voice! Participation and Democratic Citizenship in the Early Childhood Classroom

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Monica Miller Marsh, Kent State UniversityFollow
Elizabeth A. Kenyon, Kent State UniversityFollow
Terri Cardy, Kent State University Child Development CenterFollow
Erin M. West, University of Texas at TylerFollow

Abstract

This paper shares a participatory action research study conducted by a team of researchers at a university laboratory school in collaboration with three classroom teachers and 60 preschoolers. The team engaged in this research in order to examine the ways in which school personnel could generate more authentic community service experiences with, rather than simply for, children. Findings illustrate that with the support of adults, children generated ways to address issues, discussed their ideas with adults, reflected on their actions, and understood that their voices were being heard beyond the school community. With this increased participation, young people were able to show and exercise crucial skills and dispositions for democratic citizenship.

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Katherina Payne, Starting with Children’s Democratic Imagination

Recommended Citation

Marsh, M. M. , Kenyon, E. A. , Cardy, T. , West, E. M. (2020). That's My Voice! Participation and Democratic Citizenship in the Early Childhood Classroom. Democracy and Education, 28 (2), Article 1.
Available at: https://democracyeducationjournal.org/home/vol28/iss2/1

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