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The Everyday Lives of Young Children
Culture, Class, and Child Rearing in Diverse Societies

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Author: Jonathan Tudge

Date Published: August 2010
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isbn: 9780521148481

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This book is based on lengthy observations of three-year-olds in the United States, Russia, Estonia, Finland, Korea, Kenya, and Brazil. The focus is on how and where children spend their time, and who they are with, at an age when they are learning what it means to be a part of their culture. The book provides unique insight into variations in young children’s lives in different societies and from different social class groups.
- Includes end of chapter review questions, allowing readers to monitor their understanding of the material presented
- Features three-year-old children from a range of different cultures, but all as part of a single project, using the same methods in each society
- Features both cross-societal and within society comparisons
- The theoretical foundation for the book is explained and the modes are based explicitly on the theory
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"...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, Artin Göncü and Barbara Abel, University of Illinois at Chicago
"... a breakthrough contribution. The multidisciplinary nature of the work also invites readers to consider culture in all of its complexity and fluidity, and presents interesting possibilities for studying education, urbanicity, and childrearing as shaped by—and as they shape—culture... this work pushes the boundaries of research typically classified as ‘‘cross-cultural’’ by spotlighting children in urban settings around the world and by including comparisons not only across societies but also within societies..."
--Fabienne Doucet, New York University, Journal of Marriage and Family
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Product details
- Date Published: August 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521148481
- length: 328 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction and stage setting
2. The daily lives of toddlers
3. Cultural-ecological theory and its implications for research
4. Methods
5. Life in the cities
6. Everyday activities
7. Settings and partners
8. Everyday lives
9. The cultural ecology of young children.
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- Socialization of the Child
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Jonathan Tudge
Jonathan Tudge is a professor of human development and family studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and has been a Fulbright scholar and visiting professor at the Institute of Psychology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and a visiting professor at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He completed his undergraduate and master's degrees in England, at Lancaster and Oxford respectively, and his Ph.D. in human development and family studies at Cornell University in the United States. Before becoming a professor, he worked as a teacher of young children in England, Russia and the United States. His research examines cultural-ecological aspects of young children's development both within and across a number of societies, particularly focusing on the years before and immediately following the entry to school. He has co-authored, with Michael Shanahan and Jaan Valsiner, another book published by Cambridge University Press, Comparisons in Human Development: Understanding Time and Context, has also co-edited a third book and has published more than 70 journal articles and book chapters.