| Description |
Studying Children is the first book of its kind to offer a theoretical and practical discussion of how to undertake research using cultural-historical theory when researching the everyday lives of children. The authors discuss the complexities of child development, providing a critique of alternative perspectives of research and notions of development. They provide a number of case studies following researchers in early childhood as they move from a developmental approach to a cultural-historical framework for observing and planning for young children. The chapters:
Studying Children is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and students working in the field of Early and Middle Childhood at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. |
| Author Biography |
Marilyn Fleer is Professor of Early Childhood Education and Director of the Centre of Childhood Studies at Monash University, Australia.
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| Table of Contents |
Chapter 1 Developmental Psychology and Childhood Education as Areas of Research Mariane Hedegaard, Marilyn Fleer, Jytte Bang and Pernille Hviid Chapter 2 Basic Conceptions in a Cultural-Historical Theory of Children's Development Mariane Hedegaard Chapter 3 Methodological considerations for a dialectical-interactive research approach to children's development Mariane Hedegaard Chapter 4 Differences between Protocol Collecting and Interpretation Mariane Hedegaard Chapter 5 The dialectical relations between the child's perspective, the institutional perspective and the researcher's perspective Marilyn Fleer Chapter 6 Dialogue between institutional practices analysed through child, family and teacher perspectives Marilyn Fleer Chapter 7 The relations between cultural-historical theory, methodology and digital video methods Marilyn Fleer Chapter 8 Studying Developmental Novelty in the Activity Setting - An Environmental Affordance Perspective Jytte Bang Chapter 9 Developmental Interviews with Children Pernille Hviid Chapter 10 The Questionnaire as a Tool for Researching Children's Perspective in Institutional Practices Jytte Bang and Mariane Hedegaard Chapter 11 The Educational Experiment Mariane Hedegaard Chapter 12 The Role of the Researcher in Studying Children's Everyday Lives Mariane Hedegaard |
