Table 2 Analysis of researchers’ dialogue commentary
From: Visual narrative methodology in educational research with babies: triadic play in babies’ room
Dialogue commentary | Infants’engagement | Educator’s interaction | Pedagogical strategies |
|---|---|---|---|
A | Self-initiated music performance | Aware and responsive at all times | Percussion instruments made available |
Three babies respond to one another through senses – moving, seeing, hearing - rhythm, gaze, sound. | Entering play without controlling it | Social referencing, being playful together as part of group belonging | |
An experience that is collective, deeply felt and lived. (perezhivanie) | Joins play, moving head and body in a spirit of playfulness | Using power of shared sound and movement in a calm pedagogically supportive environment | |
L | Babies’initiation of the music play | Moves her head and body, and sings the sounds along with the babies’ music play | Acknowledgement of babies’ initiation |
Affective relations | Joint play | Joint communication by music | |
Elvin’s interest in the peers’ music play | Demands in Elvin’s lunch eaten | Take Elvin’s perspective and support to make a collective play | |
G | Collective affective musical and relational experience. Agentic moment | Creating a sense of togetherness | Encouraging |
Safe and valued environment | Valuing children’s interests and initiatives | ||
Babies responding to each other’s patterns of interaction and initiation | Taking part in the musicality by moving, singing and looking (gaze) at all children |