@inbook{62c430c2707344eca74d9d5b86d19dbb,
title = "Creating and maintaining play connection in a toddler peer group",
abstract = "This study explores how one and two year old peers (henceforth toddlers) participate in joint play activities in a natural group-care setting. We focus on joint play activity between three toddler peers during one full day-care day in a Finnish toddler classroom. Questions guiding the analysis concern the sequential understanding of how play emerges within peer interaction and how toddler peers are able to build sustained co-participation in their joint play during the day. The analysis showed that joint play was fragmented and organized in short segments of dyadic or triadic interaction. Re-establishments of joint play and accumulation of significant play signals during the day were important practices for toddlers to constitute social organization and sustained co-participation in their multi-party peer play. The results strengthen our understanding of very young children as both more and less competent play companions in their peer groups and guide adults{\textquoteright} practice in relation to peer play in toddler classrooms.",
keywords = "516 Educational sciences",
author = "Annukka Pursi and Lasse Lipponen",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-42331-5_7",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-42330-8",
series = "International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "93--111",
editor = "Avis Ridgway and Gloria Quinones and Liang Li",
booktitle = "Peer Play and Relationships in Early Childhood",
address = "Switzerland",
}