World Yearbook of Education 2009

Marilyn Fleer is Professor of Early Childhood Education and Foundation Chair at Monash University, Australia. She is also the Centre Research Director for the Centre for Childhood Studies.Mariane Hedegaard is a Professor and Leader of the Centre for Person, Practice, Development, and Culture (PPUK) at the Department of Psychology, Copenhagen University.Jonathan Tudge is a Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.

• Series Editor Forward 1 Constructing childhood: Global–local policies and practices, Marilyn Fleer, Mariane Hedegaard & Jonathan Tudge Section One: The constructions of childhood development and learning 2 Cultures in Early Childhood Care and Education, Bame Namensang 3 Cultural practices, social values and childhood education: The Impact of globalization, Angela Branco 4 Childhoods in Turkey: Social class and gender differences in schooling, labor, and play, Artin Göncü, Serap Özer & Nihal Ahioglu 5 A cultural-historical reading of ‘Children as Researchers’, Marilyn Fleer & Gloria Quiñones 6 The power of motives. The dialectical relations between neurobiological constraints and activity in child development, Louise Bottcher Section Two: Global-local childhood studies 7 Vygotsky and the conceptual revolution in developmental sciences: Towards a united (non-additive) account of human development, Anna Stetsenko 8 A cultural-ecological perspective on early childhood among the Luo of Kenya, Jonathan Tudge & Dolphine Odero-Wanga 9 An environmental affordance perspective on the study of development – artefact, social other, and self, Jytte Bang 10 Radical-local teaching and learning: A cultural-historical perspective on education and children’s development, Seth Chaiklin & Mariane Hedegaard 11. Cultural-historical psychology in the practice of education, G.G. Kravtsov & Elena E. Kravtsova 12. Developmental Education: Improving Participation in Cultural Practices., Bert van Oers Section Three: Global politics shaping local childhoods 13 Motivation and behaviour in Russian schools: the impact of globalisation upon the Soviet educational legacy, Julian Elliott 14 Family practices and how children are positioned as active agents, Mariane Hedegaard & Marilyn Fleer 15 Conceptions of early childhood care and education in Brazil, Lia B. L. Freitas, Terri L. Shelton & Tania M. Sperb 16 A cultural-historical analysis of play as an activity setting in early childhood education: Views from research and from teachers, Marilyn Fleer, Holli A. Tonyan, Ana Cristina Mantilla & C.M. Patricia Rivalland