Description
Book SynopsisOffering a sociocultural approach to education and learning, this fascinating exploration of childhood provides an in-depth understanding of how children make sense of the world and the people in it. Examining the ways in which children express their thoughts, feelings and actively generate meaning through experience and interaction, this fully revised and updated new edition is illustrated throughout by extensive case studies and covers a diverse range of topics, including:
- socio-historical and global child development over time and place;
- the child as meaning-maker and active learner;
- learning in the context of family, culture, group, society;
- representing and re-representing the world;
- understanding roles, identity, race and gender;
- making sense of science and technology;
- the implications of neuroscience.
Taking a clearly articulated and engaging perspective, Sandra Smidt draws
Table of Contents
1. Children and Childhoods 2. The Child as Meaning Maker 3. The Child as Social Constructor 4. The child as Creative Thinker 5. The Child as Symbol User and Symbol Weaver 6. The Child in Culture 7. The Child as Role-Maker 8. The Child as Investigator
