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Bring Your Own Toy: Socialisation of Two-Year-Olds through Tool-Mediated Activities in an Australian Early Childhood Education Context
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Kultti, Anne; Pramling, Niklas – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2015
The study focuses on how young children are socialised in early childhood education practice in activities with and around toys. A premise of this study is the theoretical notion of sociocultural theory that people do things with artefacts and other cultural tools, and tools do things with people. This is captured in the unit of analysis,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Socialization, Early Childhood Education
Constructing Cultural-Historical Tools for Supporting Young Children's Concept Formation in Early Literacy and Numeracy
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Fleer, Marilyn; Raban, Bridie – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2007
Over the past 10 years, early childhood professionals have been increasingly influenced by cultural-historical theory. In order to support professionals evolving their practice, the Australian government commissioned a set of cultural-historical resources specifically designed to build literacy and numeracy experiences for children from birth to…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Young Children, Concept Formation, Emergent Literacy