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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The World Yearbook of Education 2009: Childhood Studies and the Impact of Globalization: Policies and Practices at Global and Local Levels 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. At the global level there has been increasing discontent with how children have been reified and measured. Prevailing Eurocentric and North-American notions of childhood and development across the North-South boundaries show vast differences in how childhood is constructed and how development is theorized. The World Yearbook of Education 2009 volume provides comprehensive research from Asia-Pacific, the Americas, the African region and European communities and is presented with a special focus on education. It examines childhood from birth to twelve years of age, across institutional contexts and within both poor majority and rich minority countries. Cultural-historical theory has been used as the framework for investigating and providing insights into how childhood is theorized, politicized, enacted, and lived across these communities. A range of theoretical orientations informs this book, including cultural-historical theory, ecological theory, and cross-cultural research.The World Yearbook of Education 2009 volume is organized into 3 sections:Section 1: Examines the global construction of childhood development and learning Section 2: Discusses the local conditions and global imperatives that arise from a broadly based analysis of the studies presented within this section Section 3: Draws upon cultural-historical theory and ecological theory and brings together the themes explored throughout the preceding two sections.The World Yearbook of Education 2009 volume seeks to make visible the cultural-historical construction of childhood and development across the north-south regions and scrutinizes the policy imperatives that have maintained the global colonization of families. Zusammenfassung Examines the concept of childhood and childhood development and learning from educational, sociological, and psychological perspectives. This volume provides a series of windows into the construction of childhood around the world, as a means to conceptualizing and more sharply defining the field of global and local childhood studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis @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 Bo...
