Bücher der Reihe Child Development in Social Context

A study in child psychology which presents a series of essays that examine how a child is initiated into shared cultural understanding through close relationships with parents and teachers, as well as siblings and peers.

Explores how the study of child development is inevitably bound up both in cultural ideas about the nature and needs of children, and in educational practices that arise from these ideas. There are additional contributions on social development in the classroom and playground.