Overview
- Examines the central concepts introduced by Professor Mariane Hedegaard through her study of child development
- Considers key ideas in understanding children's learning and development and the cultural and institutional conditions in which they occur
- Collates examples of how scholars employ and develop these concepts in studies of learning and development
Part of the book series: Perspectives in Cultural-Historical Research (PCHR, volume 6)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Studies of Child Development from a Wholistic Perspective
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Front Matter
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Life in Schools
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Front Matter
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Methodological Approaches and Philosophical Considerations
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Keywords
- Vygotsky
- children's learning and development
- human development
- teaching and learning
- motive and demands in practice
- methodological approaches to study of learning and development
- developmental education
- development of independence
- social practice theory
- developmental systems perspective
- Mariane Hedegaard
- childhood studies
About this book
This collection of papers examines key ideas in cultural-historical approaches to children’s learning and development and the cultural and institutional conditions in which they occur. The collection is given coherence by a focus on the intellectual contributions made by Professor Mariane Hedegaard to understandings of children’s learning through the prism of the interplay of society, institution and person. She has significantly shaped the field through her scholarly consideration of foundational concepts and her creative attention to the fields of activity she studies. The book brings together examples of how these concepts have been employed and developed in a study of learning and development. The collection allows the contributing scholars to reveal their reactions to Hedegaard’s contributions in discussions of their own work in the field of children’s learning and the conditions in which it occurs.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Laureate Professor Marilyn Fleer holds the Foundation Chair of Early Childhood Education and Development at Monash University, Australia. She was awarded the 2018 Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship by the Australian Research Council and is a former President of the International Society of Cultural-historical Activity Research (ISCAR). Additionally, she is an honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Education, University of Oxford, and has a second professor position at the KINDKNOW Centre, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.
Louise Bøttcher is an Associate Professor at the Danish School of Education and is associated with the research programme Future Technology, Culture and Learning. Taking cultural-historical activity theory and developmental neuropsychology as starting points, her research is aimed at understanding the development of children and adolescents with disabilities.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultural-Historical Approaches to Studying Learning and Development
Book Subtitle: Societal, Institutional and Personal Perspectives
Editors: Anne Edwards, Marilyn Fleer, Louise Bøttcher
Series Title: Perspectives in Cultural-Historical Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6826-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6825-7Published: 12 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-6826-4Published: 02 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2520-1530
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1549
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 344
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Early Childhood Education, Infancy and Early Childhood Development, Childhood, Adolescence and Society