Cultural Worlds of Early Childhood

Cultural Worlds of Early Childhood
Author: Martin Woodhead
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780415173728

Using examples of attachment theory and language development, this book takes a cultural approach to early development, looking at the way children learn through relationships and attain capacities for empathy and social understanding.

Cultural Worlds of Early Childhood

Cultural Worlds of Early Childhood
Author: Dorothy Faulkner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136223096

This reader contains source material for an up-to-date study of child development as it applies to major issues in child care and education. The emphasis is on studying early childhood in cultural contexts - in families and in preschool settings. Part 1 elaborates a socio-cultural approach to early development, taking emotional attachment, communication and language and daycare as examples. Part 2 considers how children's emerging capacities for empathy, inter-subjectivity and social understanding enable them to negotiate, talk about and play out relationship themes, both in the family and preschool. Part 3 concentrates on early learning, with chapters on the way parents support children's acquisition of new skills, young children negotiating their role in learner-teacher relationships and toddlers learning to collaborate with each other. Part 4 continues the theme of children's initiation into socio-cultural practices from a cross-cultural perspective, with studies drawn from such diverse contexts as Cameroon, Guatemala, Italy, Japan and the United States. This is the first of three readers which have been specially prepared as readers for the Open University MA Course: ED840 Child Development in Families, Schools and Society.

Children’s Social Worlds in Cultural Context

Children’s Social Worlds in Cultural Context
Author: Tiia Tulviste
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3030270335

This book addresses cultural variability in children’s social worlds, examining the acquisition, development, and use of culturally relevant social competencies valued in diverse cultural contexts. It discusses the different aspects of preschoolers’ social competencies that allow children – including adopted, immigrant, or at-risk children – to create and maintain relationships, communicate, and to get along with other people at home, in daycare or school, and other situations. Chapters explore how children’s social competencies reflect the features of the social worlds in which they live and grow. In addition, chapters examine the extent that different cultural value orientations manifest in children’s social functioning and escribes how parents in autonomy-oriented cultures tend to value different social skills than parents with relatedness or autonomous-relatedness orientations. The book concludes with recommendations for future research directions. Topics featured in this book include: Gender development in young children. Peer interactions and relationships during the preschool years. Sibling interactions in western and non-western cultural groups. The roles of grandparents in child development. Socialization and development in refugee children. Child development within institutional care. Children’s Social Worlds in Cultural Context is a valuable resource for researchers, clinicians/practitioners, and graduate students in developmental psychology, child and school psychology, social work, cultural anthropology, family studies, and education.

Children and young people's cultural worlds

Children and young people's cultural worlds
Author: Sara Bragg
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2013
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1447305825

Growing up in an increasingly media-saturated, commercial, and globalized world, children and young people in contemporary society encounter and must creatively adapt to a range of cultural phenomena. Offering a critical introduction to childhood in the digital age, Children and Young People's Cultural Worlds challenges common concepts and concerns about childhood innocence held by many adults. It examines the diversity of childhood experiences and relationships--the distinctiveness of children's worlds--and explores topics such as the consequences of age and the experience of living in different cultural contexts. Utilizing contributions from scholars in a variety of different fields, it is interdisciplinary and international in scope. Including resources for teachers and students such as learning outcomes, activities, and additional readings and commentary, this well-written and beautifully presented book will be a valuable resource to anyone interested in new perspectives on childhood in the digital age.

Children's Exploration and Cultural Formation

Children's Exploration and Cultural Formation
Author: Mariane Hedegaard
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2020-02-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 303036271X

This open access book examines the educational conditions that support cultures of exploration in kindergartens. It conceptualises cultures of exploration, whether those cultures are created through children’s own engagement or are demanded of them through undertaking specific tasks within different institutional settings. It shows how the conditions for children’s exploration form a web of activities in different settings with social relationships, local landscapes and artefacts. The book builds on the understanding of cultural traditions as deeply implicated in the developmental processes, meaning that local considerations must be reflected in education for sustainable futures. Therefore the book examines and conceptualises exploration and cultural formation through locally situated cases and navigates toward global educational concepts. The book provides different windows into how children may explore in everyday practice settings in kindergarten, and contributes to a loci-based, ecological, integral knowledge relevant for early childhood education.

A World of Babies

A World of Babies
Author: Judy S. DeLoache
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2000-05-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780521664752

'Manuals' for new parents illustrating many models of babyhood, shaped by different values and cultures.

Children's Virtual Play Worlds

Children's Virtual Play Worlds
Author: Anne Michelle Burke
Publisher: New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Computers and children
ISBN: 9781433118265

Children's Virtual Play Worlds: Culture, Learning, and Participation provides a more reasoned account of children's play engagements in virtual worlds through a number of scholarly perspectives, exploring key concerns and issues which have come to the forefront.

Studying Babies and Toddlers

Studying Babies and Toddlers
Author: Liang Li
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-02-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9789811031953

The editors of this book have brought together contributors from many parts of the world. As such, the book offers a truly diverse, international flavour reflecting a broad range of research on babies and toddlers. Examining examples from both Eastern and Western cultures, the book’s overarching focus is on relationships, yielding a coherence beneficial to early childhood researchers and educators alike. Employing visual methodologies to help bring the chapters to life, the varied research studies presented concern babies’ and toddlers’ relationships and cultural contexts. Taken together, they offer a unique opportunity to conceptualise the use of a wholeness approach for studying babies and toddlers – our youngest citizens.

Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage

Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage
Author: Kate Darian-Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2013
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0415529948

Explores how the everyday experiences of children, and their imaginative and creative worlds, are collected, interpreted and displayed in museums and on monuments, and represented through objects and cultural lore.

Rethinking Early Childhood Education

Rethinking Early Childhood Education
Author: Ann Pelo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Rethinking Early Childhood Education is alive with the conviction that teaching young children involves values and vision. This anthology collects inspiring stories about social justice teaching with young children. Included here is outstanding writing from childcare teachers, early-grade public school teachers, scholars, and parents.Early childhood is when we develop our core dispositions -- the habits of thinking that shape how we live. This book shows how educators can nurture empathy, an ecological consciousness, curiosity, collaboration, and activism in young children. It invites readers to rethink early childhood education, reminding them that it is inseparable from social justice and ecological education.An outstanding resource for childcare providers, early-grade teachers, as well as teacher education and staff development programs.