Description: "This volume is written for all those who work with children and young people, including educators, psychologists, researchers, and the wider caring professions. Based in cultural-historical approaches, it shows both why accessing children's perspectives and motives is important and how to work relationally with them to help them move forward"--
Brief description: 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).
Review Quotes: 'This seminal book brings together the life work of two of the most respected cultural-historical scholars in education and child development. The theoretical problem tackled is the relations between learning and development. Their brilliant scholarship has produced a classic text, and much-needed new thinking on caring as relational pedagogy.' Marilyn Fleer, Monash University, Australia