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  • Technologies for Children

    by Marilyn Fleer ...
    Technologies for Children is a comprehensive guide to teaching design and digital technologies to children from birth to 12 years. Aligned with the Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum: Technologies, this book provides practical ideas for teaching infants, toddlers, pre-schoolers and primary-aged children. The third edition includes expanded content on teaching digital ... Read more

    $77.59 CAD

  • Play in the Early Years

    by Marilyn Fleer ...
    Play has a significant role in children's learning and development. Play in the Early Years examines the central questions about play from the perspectives of children, families and educators, providing a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of play for children from birth to eight years. In its fourth edition, Play in the Early Years has been thoroughly updated in line with the ... Read more

    $68.79 CAD

  • Play in the Early Years

    by Marilyn Fleer ...
    Play is crucial to the learning and development of children in the early years. The third edition of Play in the Early Years is a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of play for children from birth to 8 years old. Drawing on classical and contemporary theories, this text examines social, cultural and institutional approaches to play, and explores a range of strategies for ... Read more

    $81.59 CAD

  • Science for Children

    by Marilyn Fleer ...
    Science for Children introduces readers to the pedagogy of primary and early childhood science education. The book pays special attention to the three strands of science, in accordance with the Australian Curriculum. It also uses the practice principles and learning outcomes of the national Early Years Learning Framework to present content for babies through to the transition into the Foundation ... Read more

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  • Child Development in Educational Settings

    by Marilyn Fleer ...
    Child Development in Educational Settings provides a comprehensive introduction to traditional and contemporary theories of development and learning in the contexts of early childhood and primary education. Drawing upon the experiences and perspectives of children, families, educators and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholars, Marilyn Fleer provides insights into significant theories and ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Early Learning and Development

    Cultural-historical Concepts in Play

    Early Learning and Development provides a unique synthesis of cultural-historical theory from Vygotsky, Elkonin and Leontiev in the twentieth century to the ground-breaking research of scholars such as Siraj-Blatchford, Kratsova and Hedegaard today. It demonstrates how development and learning are culturally embedded and institutionally defined, and it reflects specifically upon the implications ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Theorising Play in the Early Years

    by Marilyn Fleer ...
    Theorising Play in the Early Years is a theoretical and empirical exploration of the concept of pedagogy and play in early childhood education. The book provides an in-depth examination of classical and contemporary theories of play, with a focus on post-developmental perspectives and Vygotskian theory. In this book, Marilyn Fleer draws on a range of cross-cultural research in order to challenge ... Read more

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  • A Cultural-Historical Study of Children Learning Science

    Foregrounding Affective Imagination in Play-based Settings

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book moves beyond the traditional constructivist and social-constructivist view of learning and development in science. It draws upon cultural-historical theory in order to theorise early childhood science education in relation to our currently globalised education contexts. The book argues that concept development in science for young children can be better theorised by using Vygotsky’s ... Read more

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  • Perezhivanie, Emotions and Subjectivity

    Advancing Vygotsky’s Legacy

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book draws upon Vygotsky’s idea of perezhivanie, emotions and imagination, and introduces the concepts of subjective sense and subjective configuration. These concepts are crucial for explaining and understanding children’s development from a cultural-historical perspective. A book which theorises the relations between the social and the individual through a study of a child’s perezhivanie, ... Read more

    $280.49 CAD

  • Sustainability, Care, Play and the Zone of Proximal Development

    A Developmental Perspective on Childhood

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book addresses the central issue of children’s social situation of development in relation to sustainability, care and imagination. The concept of sustainability is topical in current societal discussions, but much in need of further elaboration, which is provided by this book as an integrated aspect of childcare and child development. It provides an exploration of whether and how ... Read more

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  • Motives in Children's Development

    Cultural-Historical Approaches

    The contributors to this collection employ the analytic resources of cultural-historical theory to examine the relationship between childhood and children's development under different societal conditions. In particular they attend to relationships between development, emotions, motives and identities, and the social practices in which children and young people may be learners. These practices are ... Read more

    $49.59 CAD

  • Cultural-Historical Approaches to Studying Learning and Development

    Societal, Institutional and Personal Perspectives

    Series series Education (R0)
    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 ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD