Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction Part 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 Part 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 Goncu 8.Cultural Knowledge and Social Competence Within a Preschool Peer-culture Group Rebecca Kantor, Peggy M. Elgas and David E. Fernie Part 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 Hogsteder, 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 Part IV:Cultural Perspectives and Practices 13.Toddlers' Guided Participation With Their Caregivers in Cultural Activity Barbara Rogoff, Christine Mosier, Jayanthi Mistry and Artin Goncu 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
