Cultural Worlds of Early Childhood by Dorothy Faulkner

Cultural Worlds of Early Childhood by Dorothy Faulkner

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.

'.. an excellent selection of readings for those interested in child development and education ... a wide-ranging, interesting and valuable resource.' - Peter K. Smith, Children & Society

Dorothy Faulkner, Karen Littleton, Martin Woodhead

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ISBN 13	9780415173728
ISBN 10	0415173728
Title	Cultural Worlds of Early Childhood
Author	Dorothy Faulkner
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	1998-08-13
Number of pages	300
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