The everyday lives of young children : culture, class, and child rearing in diverse societies / Jonathan Tudge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tudge, Jonathan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Cross-cultural studies.

Children.

Social interaction--Cross-cultural studies.

Social interaction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 308 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Where do young children spend their time? What activities are they involved in and who do they interact with? How do these activities and interactions vary across different societies and cultural groups? This book provides answers to these questions, by describing the lives of three-year-olds in the United States, Russia, Estonia, Finland, South Korea, Kenya and Brazil. Each child was followed for the equivalent of one complete waking day, whether at home, in childcare, on the streets or at the shops. Graphic displays and verbal descriptions of the children's everyday activities and interactions reveal both the ways in which culture influences children's lives and the ways in which children play a role in changing the cultural groups of which they are a part. This book also has a clear theoretical rationale and illustrates why and how to do cultural-ecological research.

Contents:

Introduction and stage setting

The daily lives of toddlers

Cultural-ecological theory and its implications for research

Methods

Life in the cities

Everyday activities

Settings and partners

Everyday lives

The cultural ecology of young children.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-302) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-17427-9

1-281-37044-4

9786611370442

0-511-39405-5

0-511-39470-5

0-511-39194-3

0-511-39074-2

0-511-49989-2

0-511-39325-3

OCLC:

476152092