The Everyday Lives of Young Children

Culture, Class, and Child Rearing in Diverse Societies

Jonathan Tudge author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:23rd Aug '10

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An insight into the lives of three-year-olds in different cultures around the world.

This book is based on observations of everyday activities and interactions of three-year-olds around the world. The focus is on how and where children spend their time, and who they are with, as they are learning what it means to be a part of their culture.Where do young children spend their time? What activities are they involved in and who do they interact with? How do these activities and interactions vary across different societies and cultural groups? This book provides answers to these questions, by describing the lives of three-year-olds in the United States, Russia, Estonia, Finland, South Korea, Kenya and Brazil. Each child was followed for the equivalent of one complete waking day, whether at home, in childcare, on the streets or at the shops. Graphic displays and verbal descriptions of the children's everyday activities and interactions reveal both the ways in which culture influences children's lives and the ways in which children play a role in changing the cultural groups of which they are a part. This book also has a clear theoretical rationale and illustrates why and how to do cultural-ecological research.

Review of the hardback: '… a welcome addition … Tudge's work makes important conceptual and empirical contributions to the developmental literature. It presents us with compelling arguments about the need to justify the choice of cultural units and observational categories in describing children's daily activities. It offers a theoretical framework for the study of culture and development, and proposes a broader conception of ethnographic research methodology. Finally, this work enables us to better understand the children of the majority world while providing new information about the children of the Western industrial world as it also guides future research in significant ways.' Human Development

ISBN: 9780521148481

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm

Weight: 500g

328 pages