Cultural worlds of early childhood / edited by Martin Woodhead, Dorothy Faulkner, and Karen Littleton.

Contents

Introduction
Part I:Development as a Socio-cultural Process
1.Culture in Development
2.The Development of Affect in Infancy and Early Childhood
3.A Cultural Perspective on the Transition from Prelinguistic to Linguistic Communication
4.Shared Care for Children
Part II:Making Sense of Relationships
5.The Child's Need to Learn a Culture
6.Young Children's Understanding of Other People: Evidence from observations within the family
7.Development of Intersubjectivity in Social Pretend Play
8.Cultural Knowledge and Social Competence Within a Preschool Peer-culture Group
Part III:Relationships and Learning
9.Aspects of Teaching and Learning
10.Adult-child Interaction, Joint Problem Solving and the Structure of Cooperation
11.Collaborations Among Toddler Peers: Individual contributions to social contexts
12.Teachers and Other Adults as Talk Partners for Pupils in Nursery and Reception Classes
Part IV:Cultural Perspectives and Practices
13.Toddlers' Guided Participation With Their Caregivers in Cultural Activity
14.Socialization of Nso Children in the Bamenda Grassfields of Northwest Cameroon
15.Komatsudani: A Japanese preschool

Includes index