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Melanie’s 'ladybird'
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Transforming signs
and meanings
Melanie made marks on a
piece of paper - then taking some scissors, made
cuts at the bottom at the top and removed portions
of paper. She lifted the paper and moving it across
the table called happily to the other children
‘She’s dancing!’ Adding more marks she explained
‘She’s got a pretty dress’ and then explained that
this was ‘A lady dancing’.
By the next day Melanie
had altered what she had done, making several cuts
across the paper. Now she explained that it was a
‘ladybird’. Her teacher thought that the change of
meaning to ‘ladybird’ might have been through
word-association.
Referring to children
cutting out something they have drawn, Kress
explains the ‘makers’ shifting interest… while it is
on the page I can do “mental things” with it… when
it is off the page I can do physical things with
it,’ (1997: 27). Melanie explored her ideas about a
‘lady’ and ‘ladybird’ ‘multi-modally’, with the help
of paper, crayons and scissors, enabling her to
express and communicate personal meanings.
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From South
Africa, welcome to Jean Schafer
from Rhodes University Centre for Social Development, Grahamstown.
From the North of England, welcome to
Aimi Pallent from Caedmon Primary School, Gateshead and
Jane Barraclough from Lower Fields
School, Bradford. From London and the South East, welcome to
Rebecca Akintola St John the Divine
Primary School, Camberwell; Sue Berry & Jane
Hathaway from Stoke Community School, Rochester and to
Hazel Cyfka from Burghfield St Mary's
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welcome to Dawn Channon and
Becky Cummins from Homelands Primary
School, Torquay; to Chris Gavriel from
Easton Primary School, Bristol; Alice Griffin
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Chris Handsley from Torrre CofE Primary School, Torquay;
Sue Last from Westbury Park Primary
School, Bristol; Janet Mann from
Avonmouth; Sue Murphy from St
Margaret's School, Torquay; Fiona Owen
from St Margaret's School, Torquay; Becky
Perry from Filton Avenue Infants School, Bristol;
Mike Rylands from Burnbush Primary
School, Bristol; Louise Scruton-Evans
from Bishops Road School, Bristol; Karen
Sheppard from Blaise Primary School, Bristol and
Mark Treadwell from Torbay. .
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Worthington, M. (2010) ‘Play is
a complex landscape: imagination and symbolic meanings’. In
Broadhead, P., Howard, J. and Wood, E. (Eds.) Play and Learning
in the Early Years, London: Sage Publications.
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2010: QDCA
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