Childhood studies and the impact of globalization policies and practices at global and local levels /

Other Authors: Fleer, Marilyn., Hedegaard, Mariane., Tudge, Jonathan.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2009.
Physical Description: xix, 327 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series: World year book of education ; 2009.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Constructing childhood: global-local policies and practices / Marilyn Fleer, Mariane Hedegaard and Jonathan Tudge
  • Cultures in early childhood care and education / A. Bame Namensang
  • Cultural practices, social values and childhood education : the impact of globalization / Angela Uchoa Branco
  • Childhood in Turkey : social class and gender differences in schooling, labor, and play / Artin Göncü, Serap Özer and Nihal Ahioğlu
  • A cultural-historical reading of "children as researchers" / Marilyn Fleer and Gloria Quiñones
  • The power of motives : the dialectical relations between neurobiological constraints and activity in child development / Louise Bottcher
  • Vygotsky and the conceptual revolution in developmental sciences : towards a united (non-additive) account of human development / Anna Stetsenko
  • A cultural-ecological perspective on early childhood among the Luo of Kisumu, Kenya / Jonathan Tudge and Dolphine Odero-Wanga
  • An environmental affordance perspective on the study of development : artefacts, social others, and self / Jytte Bang
  • Radical-local teaching and learning : a cultural-historical perspective on education and children's development / Seth Chaiklin and Mariane Hedegaard
  • Cultural-historical psychology in the practice of education / G.G. Kravtsov and E.E. Kravtsova
  • Developmental education : improving participation in cultural practices / Bert van Oers
  • Motivation and behaviour in Russian schools : the impact of globalisation upon the Soviet educational legacy / Julian Elliott
  • Family practices and how children are positioned as active agents / Mariane Hedegaard and Marilyn Fleer
  • Conceptions of early childhood care and education in Brazil / Lia B.L. Freitas, Terri L. Shelton and Tania M. Sperb
  • A cultural-historical analysis of play as an activity setting in early childhood education : views from research and from teachers / Marilyn Fleer ... [et al.].