World Yearbook of Education 2009 : Childhood Studies and the Impact of Globalization: Policies and Practices at Global and Local Levels

by Fleer, Marilyn; Hedegaard, Mariane; Tudge, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780203884171
• ISBN10: 0203884175
• Copyright: 2008-12-18
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

The World Yearbook of Education 2009: Childhood Studies and the Impact of Globalization 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.

Table of Contents

Section 1

The global construction of childhood development and learning

NB: Authorship order may change A cultural-ecological perspective on childhood â€" African perspective

Western influences on post-Soviet education

Sociological critiques of psychological perspectives on children â€" their impact on institutional practices

Locating the learning context â€" Pacific journey and the Fa’aSamoa

Development and learning as activist projects: learning from and expanding Vygotsky’s approach

The power of motives: the interaction between biological constraints and activity in the development of children

Play and learning â€" the learning and relearning of play in contemporary societies

Activity systems within schools â€" the voice of special education

Section Two

Global politics shaping local childhoods

NB: Authorship order may change Global-local practice informing research and research informing global-local practice

Are universal views of â€Ë£development’ and â€Ë£learning’ being constructed or politicized? â€" when home culture works and western schooling mean different things

How are assessment or accountability measures being developed, sanctioned and policed - Indigenous learning perpectives

Views of childhood in Turkey â€" the global-local tension

Intent community participation â€" learning in communities in the Americas

Family contexts and how they position children as active agents in local and global contexts

Developmental teaching in schooling in the Netherlands

Development of participation on social practice: How does local social practice impact on global issues of childhood?

Section Three

The politics of childhood research

NB: Authorship order may change Historical and comparative analyses of early childhood policies in the US and Brazil

Lia Freitas Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Americas

Kenyan learning in the context of political and NGO imperatives

Methodological constraints and affordances in childhood studies

Majority world perspectives on childhood research

An OECD perspective on policy and childhood research

Policy imperatives â€" Joined up Government discourses and constructions of childhood research across institutions

Global-local orientations in researching childhood Jaan Valisner, Clark University, Worchester, USA US

Emerging or silenced research contexts for childhood studies

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