TY - BOOK AU - Fleer,Marilyn AU - Hedegaard,Mariane AU - Tudge,Jonathan TI - World yearbook of education 2009: Childhood studies and the impact of globalization : policies and practices at global and local levels T2 - World yearbook of education SN - 0-415-99411-X PY - 2009/// CY - New York, NY. PB - Routledge KW - Niños KW - Desarrollo KW - Estudios transculturales KW - Educación intercultural N1 - Índice; Includes bibliographical references and index; Bibliografía; The global construction of childhood development and learning / Marilyn Fleer, Mariane Hedegaard & Jonathan Tudge -- Cultures in care and early education / Bame Namensang -- Cultural practices, social values and childhood education : the impact of globalization / Angela Branco -- Childhoods in Turkey : social class and gender differences in schooling, labor, and play / Artin Göncü, Serap Azer & Nihal Ahionlu -- A cultural-historical reading of "children as researchers" / Marilyn Fleer & Gloria Quinones -- The power of motives. the dialectical relations between neurobiological constraints and activity in child development / Louise Bottcher -- Vygotsky and the conceptual revolution in developmental sciences towards a united (non-additive) account of human development / Anna Stetsenko -- A cultural-ecological perspective on early childhood among the Luo of Kenya / Jonathan Tudge, & Dolphine Odero-Wanga -- An environmental affordance perspective on the study of development-artefact, social other, and self / Jytte Bang -- Radical-local teaching and learning : a cultural-historical perspective on education and children's development / Seth Chaiklin & Mariane Hedegaard -- Cultural-historical psychology in the practice of education / G.G. Kravtsov & Elena E. Kravtsova -- Developmental education : improving participation in cultural practices / G.G. Kravtsov & Elena E. Kravtsova Bert van Oers -- Motivation and behaviour in Russian schools : the impact of globalisation upon the Soviet educational legacy / Julian Elliott -- Family practices and how children are positioned as active agents / Mariane Hedegaard & Marilyn Fleer -- Conceptions of early childhood care and education in Brazil / Lia B. L. Freitas, Terri L. Shelton, & Tania M. Sperb -- A cultural-historical analysis of play as an activity setting in early childhood education : views from research and from teachers / Marilyn Fleer ... [et al.] N2 - The World Yearbook of Education 2009: Childhood Studies and the Impact of Globalization: Policies and Practices at Global and Local Levels 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. At the global level there has been increasing discontent with how children have been reified and measured. Prevailing Eurocentric and North-American notions of childhood and development across the North-South boundaries show vast differences in how childhood is constructed and how development is theorized ER -