The Everyday Lives of Young Children: Culture, Class, and Child Rearing in Diverse Societies

ISBN-13: 9780521803847 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 328 str.

Johathan Tudge; Jonathan Tudge

Opis

This book is based on lengthy observations of three-year-olds in the United States, Russia, Estonia, Finland, Korea, Kenya, and Brazil. The focus is on how and where children spend their time, and who they are with, at an age when they are learning what it means to be a part of their culture. The book provides unique insight into variations in young children s lives in different societies and from different social class groups."

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: '… a welcome addition … Tudge's work makes important conceptual and empirical contributions to the developmental literature. It presents us with compelling arguments about the need to justify the choice of cultural units and observational categories in describing children's daily activities. It offers a theoretical framework for the study of culture and development, and proposes a broader conception of ethnographic research methodology. Finally, this work enables us to better understand the children of the majority world while providing new information about the children of the Western industrial world as it also guides future research in significant ways.' Human Development

Spis treści

1. Introduction and stage setting; 2. The daily lives of toddlers; 3. Cultural-ecological theory and its implications for research; 4. Methods; 5. Life in the cities; 6. Everyday activities; 7. Settings and partners; 8. Everyday lives; 9. The cultural ecology of young children.