Taking a child-centred view of education and learning, this multidisciplinary exploration of childhood shows how children make sense of the world through everything they come into contact with, and all their interactions. The book takes a broad assessment of all children's roles and experiences, covering a diverse range of topics including:
- global and historical childhoods
- the child as meaning-maker and active learner
- learning in the context of family, culture, group, society
- representing and re-representing the world
- the development of symbolic representation
- the child and culture
- understanding roles, identity, race and gender
- making sense of science and technology
- brain functions and development.
Sandra Smidt depicts children as symbol users, role-players, investigators and creative thinkers, and follows children's progress in forming their understanding of their environment, asking questions about it, and expressing it through music, dance, art and constructive play.
- ISBN10 6610553289
- ISBN13 9786610553280
- Publish Date 29 May 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 21 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Taylor & Francis Group
- Format eBook
- Pages 150
- Language English