Studying Children, Hedegaard & Fleer et al

Studying Children, A Cultural-Historical Approach by Marianne Hedegaard, Marilyn Fleer, Jytte Bang and Pernille Hviid. Open University Press. McGraw-Hill Education. Paperback. English. 221 pages. Read. Contains highlights and annotations. Studying Children is the first book of its kind to offer a theoretical and practical discussion of how to undertake research using cultural-historical theory when readearching the everyday lives of children. The authors discuss the complexities of child development, providing a critique of alternative perspectives of research and notions of development. They provide a number of case studies following researchers in early childhood as they move from no a developmental approach to a cultural-historical framework for observing and planning for young children. Studying Children is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and students working in the field of Early and Middle Childhood at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.