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Childhood, learning & everyday life in three Asia-Pacific cities : experiences from Melbourne, Hong Kong and Singapore / I-Fang Lee, Sue Saltmarsh, Nicola Yelland, editors.

9789819904860 electronic book
9819904862 electronic book
9789819904853
9819904854

Singapore : Springer, 2023.

English

1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color).

10.1007/978-981-99-0486-0 doi

LC208 .C45 2023

305.234

This book introduces findings from an international, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary study of childrens everyday experiences of growing up and going to school in the context of the three global cities of Hong Kong, Singapore and Melbourne. It takes the premise that childrens learning and orientations to educational success are shaped by everyday cultural practices at home and at school, by policy contexts that both produce and respond to educational and cultural norms, and by individual and familial desires and aspirations. Drawing on research conducted with primary school-aged children in Year 4, the book considers how day-to-day routines such as going to school, engaging in extra-curricular activities outside of school, and spending time at home with family intersect with the broader milieus of education policy ideals in a changing and interconnected world. Through a combination of visual methodologies, surveys, ethnographic observations in schools, classrooms and cityscapes, re-enactments of everyday activities with children at home, and sociological education policy analysis, this book shows both the richness of childrens everyday lives and learning in global cities, as well as exploring questions that pose challenges to educational and social norms.

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Global childhoods in the Asia-Pacific ; volume 1.

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