Cultural Worlds of Early Childhood

• Other Authors: Woodhead, Martin (Editor), Faulkner, Dorothy (Editor), Littleton, Karen (Editor)
• Format: Manuscript Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxon Routledge 2016
• Series: Child development in families, schools and society, 1
• Subjects: Child development; Early childhood education
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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 d...

Table of Contents:

• pt. I. Development as a socio-cultural process. 1. Culture in development / Michael Cole. 2. The development of affect in infancy and early childhood / Charles M. Super and Sara Harkness. 3. A cultural perspective on the transition from prelinguistic to linguistic communication / Bambi B. Schieffelin and Elinor Ochs. 4. Shared care for children / Elly Singer
• pt. II. Making sense of relationships. 5. The child's need to learn a culture / Colwyn Trevarthen. 6. Young children's understanding of other people: evidence from observations within the family / Judy Dunn. 7. Development of intersubjectivity in social pretend play / Artin Gonco. 8. Cultural knowledge and social competence within a preschool peer-culture group / Rebecca Kantor, Peggy M. Elgas and David E. Fernie
• pt. III. Relationships and learning. 9. Aspects of teaching and learning / David Wood. 10. Adult-child interaction, joint problem solving and the structure of cooperation / Mariette Hoogsteder, Robert Maier and Ed Elbers. 11. Collaborations among toddler peers: individual contributions to social contexts / Celia A. Brownell and Michael Sean Carriger. 12. Teachers and other adults as talk partners for pupils in nursery and reception classes / Maureen Hughes and David Westgate
• pt. IV. Cultural perspectives and practices. 13. Toddlers' guided participation with their caregivers in cultural activity / Barbara Rogofe, Christine Mosier and Jayantih Mistry [and others]. 14. Socialization of Nso children in the Bamenda Grassfields of Northwest Cameroon / A. Bame Nsamenang and Michael E. Lamb. 15. Komatsudani: a Japanese preschool / Joseph J. Tobin, David Y.H. Wu and Dana H. Davidson.