Taking Children and Young People Seriously

A Caring Relational Approach to Education
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-108-97051-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 309 Seiten

Children and young people are active agents with motives and intentions who can contribute to their social worlds. Taking children seriously involves both accessing their perspectives as they make sense of the world and working relationally with them to guide their motive orientations. In this book, Hedegaard and Edwards draw upon their own and others' research on children from birth to school leaving age to advocate for relational support for learners and to emphasise the caring aspects of this support. The authors provide a scholarly account of the cultural-historical underpinnings of their caring relational approach, while bringing these ideas to life through examples of practices in families and in more formal settings. Written for those who work with children and young people in varied capacities, this book reveals the knowledge and skills required for the subtle and reciprocal work of supporting the learning and development of children and young people.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edwards, Anne

Hedegaard, Mariane

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Taking Children and Young People Seriously: A Caring Relational Approach to Education; 2. A Cultural-Historical Approach to Children's Development and Childhood; 3. Working Relationally with Other Professionals and Families; 4. Very Young Children: Taking a Double Perspective in Understanding their Development; 5. Care and Education in Kindergarten with Play as the Core Activity; 6. Engaging with Knowledge When Starting School; 7. Care-full Approaches to Pedagogy; 8. The Primary School Age: Enabling the Agentic Learner; 9. Developmental Teaching as a Double Move Between Subject Knowledge and Children's Appropriation of Personal Knowledge; 10. Adolescence and Transitions into Early Adulthood; 11. A Caring Relational Approach to Education: Implications for Practice and Policy; References; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Hedegaard, Mariane
Mariane Hedegaard is Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychology at Copenhagen University, Denmark. She is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, UK and has an honorary degree from the University of Pablo de Olavide, Spain. The relations between children's motive orientation and institutional demands are central themes in her work. She has authored and edited several books, including Motives in Children's Development (2012) and Learning, Play and Children's Development (2013).

Edwards, Anne
Anne Edwards is Professor Emerita in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, UK. She has honorary doctorates from the University of Helsinki, Finland and the University of Oslo, Norway for her work on cultural-historical approaches to learning across the lifespan. In 2022 her lifetime's contribution to the field was recognised by the Cultural-Historical Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association.