Taking Children and Young People Seriously

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). Anne Edwards is Professor Emerita in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, UK. She has honorary doctorates from the University of Helsinki, Finland and the University of Oslo, Norway for her work on cultural-historical approaches to learning across the lifespan. In 2022 her lifetime's contribution to the field was recognised by the Cultural-Historical Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association.

'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

• 1. Taking Children and Young People Seriously: A Caring Relational Approach to Education; 2. A Cultural-Historical Approach to Children's Development and Childhood; 3. Working Relationally with Other Professionals and Families; 4. Very Young Children: Taking a Double Perspective in Understanding their Development; 5. Care and Education in Kindergarten with Play as the Core Activity; 6. Engaging with Knowledge When Starting School; 7. Care-full Approaches to Pedagogy; 8. The Primary School Age: Enabling the Agentic Learner; 9. Developmental Teaching as a Double Move Between Subject Knowledge and Children's Appropriation of Personal Knowledge; 10. Adolescence and Transitions into Early Adulthood; 11. A Caring Relational Approach to Education: Implications for Practice and Policy; References; Index.