Studying Children is the first book of its kind to offer a theoretical and practical discussion of how to undertake research using cultural-historical theory when researching the everyday lives of children. The authors discuss the complexities of child development, providing a critique of alternativ[...]

This book explores the dynamics in children's everyday lives as they move between school and the family, with particular consideration of how children's motives change in response to new challenges. Professors Mariane Hedegaard and Marilyn Fleer follow four children, two from Australia and two from [...]

This is a collection of papers by 15 Danish psychologists relating directly or indirectly, to the theoretical work of the Russian psychologists, L.S. Vygotsky and A.N. Leontiev. They introduce new theoretical reflections and ideas on the principles of mind on the "societal subject".[...]