Motives in Children's Development
Cultural-Historical Approaches

This book explores the role of motives in children's development at home, in education and at play.

Mariane Hedegaard (Edited by), Anne Edwards (Edited by), Marilyn Fleer (Edited by)

9781107626881, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 January 2014

240 pages, 9 b/w illus. 1 table
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.36 kg

"...Hedegaard (psychology, Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark), Edwards (education, Oxford Univ., UK), and Fleer (education, Monash Univ., Australia) have edited a collection of papers dealing with a topic rarely touched on in the US.... This collection will be of more interest to theorists of education..."
--J. Mercer, emerita, Richard, Stockton College, CHOICE

The contributors to this collection employ the analytic resources of cultural-historical theory to examine the relationship between childhood and children's development under different societal conditions. In particular they attend to relationships between development, emotions, motives and identities, and the social practices in which children and young people may be learners. These practices are knowledge-laden, imbued with cultural values and emotionally freighted by those who already act in them. The book first discusses the organising principles that underpin a cultural-historical understanding of motives, development and learning. The second section foregrounds children's lives to exemplify the implications of these ideas as they are played out - examining how children are positioned as learners in pre-school, primary school and play environments. The final section uses the core ideas to look at the implementation of policy aimed at enhancing children's engagement with opportunities for learning, by discussing motives in the organisations that shape children's development.

Part I. Motives, Emotions and Development: 1. The dynamic aspects between children's learning and development Mariane Hedegaard
2. The connections between motives and will in the development of personality Elena Kravtsova and Gennady Kravtsov
3. Advancing on the concept of sense: subjective sense and subjective configurations in human development Fernando Gonzales Rey
4. Early stages in children's cultural development Vladimir P. Zinchenko
Part II. Cultural Practice Motives and Development: 5. The development of motives in children's play Marilyn Fleer
6. Developing motivation through peer interaction: a cross-cultural analysis Jose Sanchez Medina and Virginia Martinez
7. Developing social identities and motives in school transitions Ditte Winther-Lindquist
8. Motives matter: a cultural historical approach to IT mediated subject matter teaching Kåre Stenild and Ole Iversen
9. Motivation for school learning: enhancing the meaningfulness of learning in communities of learners Willem Wardekker, Annoesjka Boersma, Geert ten Dam and Monique Volman
Part III. Creating Conditions for Children's Engagement: 10. Expertise in the children's workforce: knowledge and motivation in engagement with children Anne Edwards
11. Changing situations and motives Harry Daniels
12. A conceptual perspective for investigating motive in cultural-historical theory Seth Chaiklin.

Subject Areas: Education: care & counselling of students [JNH], Moral & social purpose of education [JNAM], Social, group or collective psychology [JMH], Child & developmental psychology [JMC], Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography [JHMC], Sociology: family & relationships [JHBK]