This Toolkit Pack is the result of a research project that looked at how young children experience sound in the environment. We wanted to explore: How do young children experience sound in the environment? What is the relationship between environmental sounds, sounds young children make with their bodies, and words? How can thinking more widely…
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Piloting our new Activity Cards: Evaluative comments from early years and childhood studies students
Today I piloted one of our new Activity Cards to support the use of the Sounds Toolkit in Early Years Settings with my undergraduate students on the BA in Early Years and Childhood Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. All the students have experience of working within early years settings and so it was a great…
The Sound Toolkit at the International Conference of the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth 2016
As part of the International Conference of the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth, Dr Lisa Procter and Dr Abigail Hackett (of the Storying Doncaster Sounds Project), led a symposium entitled Materialising and Spatialising Childhood Studies alongside Professor Peter Kraftl, Dr Matej Blazek and Associate Professor John Horton. Our shared aim was to…
Using our Storying Sounds Resources
The Storying Sounds Toolkit is now in the final stages of production. It includes the Toolkit (pictured here) as well as accompanying booklet of drawings of sound created by young children (aged 3 and 4). This blog post is based on reflections of how these resources were used by children. As a co-investigator on this…
Children’s Drawings of Sounds
What happens when you ask children to draw sound? This was a question that as a research team we have been exploring through this project. In this blog post we have collated some of young children’s drawings of sounds that were played to them from an audio device. The graphic representations reflect children’s diverse and…
Presentations from the Launch Event
At the launch event, three different members from the Storying Sounds team – Lisa Procter (Principle Investigator), Fiona Scott (Research Associate) and Nicky Rose (Artist) – each presented on the project from their different perspectives. Lisa offered an overview of the original aims of the project and how these have changed/developed through collaborating with the…
Using Sound to Spark Children’s Creativity
January marked the launch of the Storying Doncaster Sounds toolkit developed through a School of Education, University of Sheffield research project in collaboration with School of Architecture, Doncaster Civic Trust, Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth, and The Bower Wirks. Dr. Lisa Procter (Early Years Education), Prof. Jian Kang (Architecture) and Dr. Abigail…
Launch Event – 30th January
Storying Doncaster Sounds Part 2 is a FREE arts-based workshop for CHILDREN and FAMILIES. The activities will run for the full afternoon and you are welcome to drop in at any point. The event is part of the Sounds of Childhood project, a collaboration between Doncaster Civic Trust, the University of Sheffield and The Bower…
About the Project
The Storying Doncaster Sounds project brings together Masters-level Education and Architecture students in the production of an educational storytelling app which would allow young children to record, visualise and narrate the sounds they hear in the built environment. Working with young children, early years practitioners and app developers the students will develop the app design…
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