Children, Childhood, and Everyday Life

Children live their lives across various social settings, including homes,kindergartens, schools and different kinds of institutions. The different
contributions of this book focus on children's perspectives, and on how children
learn and develop through taking part in activities in social communities such as
families, peer groups, classrooms, and day care institutions. This collection
illustrates different ways of dealing with varying social contexts, and the research
presented involves questions about children's world-making, anchored in
children's daily lives. The studies are inspired by Vygotsky's theory of development (1998), as well as childhood
sociology. One of the aims has been to problematice time, change, continuity, developmental trajectories, and
transitions in order to identify novel ways of discussing 'development' in relation to different trajectories through
childhood and youth.