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Book SynopsisPart I: Zone of Proximal Development and Care.- 1. Zone of proximal development in historical perspective: Origins and sustainable development.- 2. The social/cultural zone of proximal development in dialectical special pedagogy.- 3. Caring for a common life unfolding - a main challenge in early years education.- 4. A caring approach to the unfolding of children's agency as learners.- 5. Caring for the more than human in early years education.- Part II: Imagination and Emotions.- 6. Children's emotional experience as central for understanding the periods of transition between age periods.- 7. Emotional imagining in a Conceptual PlayWorld: How educators create motivating conditions to support early forms of imagining by infants and toddlers.- 8. Creative imagination in primary science education: Conceptual PlayWorlds and Forces of nature.- 9. The sphere where imagination in play afford, and creates a new way of partaking, in the world.- 10. Formation of student agency in UpperSecondary School environmental action projects.- Part III: Community and ECEC/School.- 11. Glocal' pedagogies for the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Futures in the context of Early Childhood Education and Care.- 12.
Children participation the Public Space: contributions to Education for Sustainability.- 13. Pedagogical Positioning in Conceptual PlayWorld with Families: Care-full (teaching-learning) approach in an Australian Playgroup.- 14. Suddenly he starts to say Goodbye! Young children's relationships during transition from homecare to ECEC institution.- 15. Pretend play and cultural knowledge: a productive dialectic.- 16. Schools challenges, affordances and resilience in COVID-19 times: helping transitions for vulnerable children in Spain.
