World Yearbook of Education 2009 (eBook, ePUB)

Childhood Studies and the Impact of Globalization: Policies and Practices at Global and Local Levels
Redaktion: Fleer, Marilyn; Tudge, Jonathan; Hedegaard, Mariane

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Produktbeschreibung

The World Yearbook of Education 2009: Childhood Studies and the Impact of Globalization examines the concept of 'childhood' and 'childhood development and learning' from educational, sociological and psychological perspectives. This contributed volume seeks to explicitly provide a series of windows into the construction of childhood around the world, as a means to conceptualizing and more sharply defining the emerging field of global and local childhood studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135848552
• Artikelnr.: 38258922

Autorenporträt

Marilyn Fleer is Professor of Early Childhood Education and Foundation Chair at Monash University, Australia. She is also the Centre Research Director for the Centre for Childhood Studies. Mariane Hedegaard is a Professor and Leader of the Centre for Person, Practice, Development, and Culture (PPUK) at the Department of Psychology, Copenhagen University. Jonathan Tudge is a Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

@toc:Contributor Bios
Series Editor Forward
1 Constructing childhood: Global-local policies and practices, Marilyn
Fleer, Mariane Hedegaard & Jonathan Tudge
Section One: The constructions of childhood development and learning
2 Cultures in Early Childhood Care and Education, Bame Namensang
3 Cultural practices, social values and childhood education: The Impact of
globalization, Angela Branco
4 Childhoods in Turkey: Social class and gender differences in schooling,
labor, and play, Artin Göncü, Serap Özer & Nihal Ahioglu
5 A cultural-historical reading of 'Children as Researchers', Marilyn Fleer
& Gloria Quiñones
6 The power of motives. The dialectical relations between neurobiological
constraints and activity in child development, Louise Bottcher
Section Two: Global-local childhood studies
7 Vygotsky and the conceptual revolution in developmental sciences: Towards
a united (non-additive) account of human development, Anna Stetsenko
8 A cultural-ecological perspective on early childhood among the Luo of
Kenya, Jonathan Tudge & Dolphine Odero-Wanga
9 An environmental affordance perspective on the study of development -
artefact, social other, and self, Jytte Bang
10 Radical-local teaching and learning: A cultural-historical perspective
on education and children's development, Seth Chaiklin & Mariane Hedegaard
11. Cultural-historical psychology in the practice of education, G.G.
Kravtsov & Elena E. Kravtsova
12. Developmental Education: Improving Participation in Cultural
Practices., Bert van Oers
Section Three: Global politics shaping local childhoods
13 Motivation and behaviour in Russian schools: the impact of globalisation
upon the Soviet educational legacy, Julian Elliott
14 Family practices and how children are positioned as active agents,
Mariane Hedegaard & Marilyn Fleer
15 Conceptions of early childhood care and education in Brazil, Lia B. L.
Freitas, Terri L. Shelton & Tania M. Sperb
16 A cultural-historical analysis of play as an activity setting in early
childhood education: Views from research and from teachers, Marilyn Fleer,
Holli A. Tonyan, Ana Cristina Mantilla & C.M. Patricia Rivalland