1. Constructing childhood: global-local policies and practices
2. Part 1: the constructions of childhood development and learning
3. Cultures in early childhood care and education
4. Cultural practices, social values and childhood education: the impact of globalization
5. Childhood in Turkey: social class and gender differences in schooling labor and play
6. A cultural-historical reading of “children as researchers”
7. The power of motives: the dialectic relations between neurobiological constraints and activity in child development
8. Part 2: global-local childhood studies
9. Vtgotsky and the conceptual revolution developmental sciences: towards a unified (non-addictive) account of human development
10. A cultural-ecological perspective on early childhood among the Lou of Kisumu, Kenya
11. An environmental affordance perspective on the study of development - artefacts, social others and self
12. Radical-local teaching and learning: a cultural historical perspective on education and children’s development
13. Cultural-historical psychology in the practice of education
14. Development education: improving participation in cultural practices
15. Part 3: global politics shaping local childhoods
16. Motivation and behavior in Russian schools: the impact of globalization upon the soviet educational legacy
17. Family practices and how children are positioned as active agents
18. Conceptions of early childhood care and education in Brazil
19. A cultural-historical analysis of play as an activity setting in early childhood education: views from research and from teachers