The global construction of childhood development and learning / Marilyn Fleer, Mariane Hedegaard & Jonathan Tudge -- Cultures in care and early education / Bame Namensang -- Cultural practices, social values and childhood education : the impact of globalization / Angela Branco -- Childhoods in Turkey : social class and gender differences in schooling, labor, and play / Artin Göncü, Serap Azer & Nihal Ahionlu -- A cultural-historical reading of children as researchers / Marilyn Fleer & Gloria Quinones -- The power of motives. the dialectical relations between neurobiological constraints and activity in child development / Louise Bottcher -- Vygotsky and the conceptual revolution in developmental sciences towards a united (non-additive) account of human development / Anna Stetsenko -- A cultural-ecological perspective on early childhood among the Luo of Kenya / Jonathan Tudge, & Dolphine Odero-Wanga -- An environmental affordance perspective on the study of development-artefact, social other, and self / Jytte Bang -- Radical-local teaching and learning : a cultural-historical perspective on education and children’s development / Seth Chaiklin & Mariane Hedegaard -- Cultural-historical psychology in the practice of education / G.G. Kravtsov & Elena E. Kravtsova -- Developmental education : improving participation in cultural practices / G.G. Kravtsov & Elena E. Kravtsova Bert van Oers -- Motivation and behaviour in Russian schools : the impact of globalisation upon the Soviet educational legacy / Julian Elliott -- Family practices and how children are positioned as active agents / Mariane Hedegaard & Marilyn Fleer -- Conceptions of early childhood care and education in Brazil / Lia B. L. Freitas, Terri L. Shelton, & Tania M. Sperb -- A cultural-historical analysis of play as an activity setting in early childhood education : views from research and from teachers