Taking Children and Young People Seriously (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108970518)

Children and young people are active agents with motives and intentions who can contribute to their social worlds. Taking children seriously involves both accessing their perspectives as they make sense of the world and working relationally with them to guide their motive orientations. In this book, Hedegaard and Edwards draw upon their own and others' research on children from birth to school leaving age to advocate for relational support for learners and to emphasise the caring aspects of this support. The authors provide a scholarly account of the cultural-historical underpinnings of their caring relational approach, while bringing these ideas to life through examples of practices in families and in more formal settings. Written for those who work with children and young people in varied capacities, this book reveals the knowledge and skills required for the subtle and reciprocal work of supporting the learning and development of children and young people.

Author: Mariane Hedegaard,Anne Edwards
ISBN-10: 1108970516
ISBN-13: 9781108970518
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/12/2025
Pages: 309
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d