Amanda Bateman Libros

Focusing on the collaborative nature of teaching and learning, this book explores how teachers and young children co-create knowledge through everyday interactions. Utilizing an ethnomethodological approach, it analyzes conversations during activities like pretend play, disputes, managing illness, and environmental discussions. The insights reveal the intricate details of how educational experiences are shaped through dialogue and shared activities, highlighting the dynamic relationship between educators and learners.

The Arnolds aren't like many families, but then Elsie Arnold isn't like other mothers. Selfish to her core, Elsie's only concern is herself and her happiness, little caring about her husband, Harry, or four children left behind in her wake. If a better option comes along, she has no hesitation about taking it.

The story picks up with Janie Arnold making a life changing decision to help her cousin Megan and hopefully to leave Janie free to start her own life. Whilst on holiday in Lanzarote she meets Adam, a boat builder from back home in Wales and Alison another holiday maker from Derbyshire. Life is finally starting to look up for Janie.

The Arnold's have been through enough over the years. Abandonment. Murder. Grief. Heartache. Lies and Feuds. Are they to finally get their happy ever after?

This book is a collected volume that brings together research from authors working in cross-disciplinary academic areas including early childhood, linguistics and education, and draws on the shared interests of the authors, namely understanding children’s interactions and the co-production of knowledge in everyday communication. The collection of studies explores children’s interactions with teachers, families and peers, showing how knowledge and learning are co-created, constructed and evident in everyday experiences.