Play, learning, and children's development : everyday life in families and transition to school

Play, learning, and children's development : everyday life in families and transition to school / Mariane Hedegaard, Marilyn Fleer.

"This book explores the dynamics in children's everyday lives as they move between school and the family, with particular consideration of how children's motives change in response new challenges. Professors Mariane Hedegaard and Marilyn Fleer follow four children, two from Australia...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hedegaard, Mariane (Author), Fleer, Marilyn (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Child development.
Families.
Play.
Learning.
Nuclear families.
play (recreation)
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Nuclear families
Child development
Families
Learning
Play
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Part I.A wholeness approach to the study of children's everyday life. 1. Children's social situation and their activities in everyday settings ; 2. The conditions that family practices create for children's learning and development ; 3. Societal conditions shape family practices
  • Part II. Family activity settings. 4. Morning routines in families ; 5. Walking to school ; 6. Afterschool settings and homework activities ; 7. Relaxing at home--unstructured times in families ; 8. The afterschool period--outdoor play at home ; 9. Evening meals ; 10. Bedtime routines
  • Part III. Children entering school practices and participating in different settings. 11. Entering into school practice ; 12. How schools create conditions for being a successful school child
  • Part IV. Learning, play, and children's development. 13. Children's everyday life in families and across into school.

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