The current focus on child-centred learning in the Chinese early childhood education sector is accompanied by calls to enhance children's group experiences. Aims of the present study include understanding the meaning of 'group' in Chinese children's learning, as well as the ways in which children experience groups in the social pedagogic contexts…

This article explores parents' perspectives of children's learning, drawing on a comparative research project with a focus on survey data from 200 preschool parents in Japan and China. The findings were compared between the two countries in order to identify common and distinct perspectives in terms of what and how children learn in the families…