Qualitative Studies of Exploration in Childhood Education: Cultures of Play and Learning in Transition (Transitions in Childhood and Youth)

Synopsis

This book uses the concept of exploration as a way of understanding transitions in children between the ages of 5 to 18 years old. Written by an international group of scholars from Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, India, Norway and the UK, the chapters offer a diverse set of case studies. The topics and themes covered include transitions in outdoor playtime, the transition to daycare, compassion in kindergarten, learning with fathers, transitions of Chinese traditional culture and disability. The chapters are organised into two parts, the first part covering macro transitions and the second covering micro-genetic transitions. The contributors show how both macro and micro-genetic transitions influence children's everyday lives, and how these different transitions open up new possibilities for play, learning and development. The contributors draw on Vygotsky's cultural historical theory and the understanding that children's cultural formation takes form in a dialectic relation between children's interests and motives and the institutional settings they participate in.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781350199446

Related ISBNs:

9781350199422

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing

Date of Addition:

11/04/21

Copyrighted By:

Marilyn Fleer, Mariane Hedegaard, Elin Eriksen Ødegaard and Hanne Værum Sørensen and Contributors

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Education, Philosophy, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Marilyn Fleer

Edited by:

Mariane Hedegaard

Edited by:

Elin Eriksen Ødegaard

Edited by:

Hanne Værum Sørensen