TY - BOOK AU - Fleer,Marilyn TI - Early learning and development: cultural-historical concepts in play SN - 9780521122658 U1 - 372.21 FLE PY - 2010/// CY - Melbourne, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Early childhood education KW - Cross-cultural studies KW - Historiography KW - Play KW - Child development N1 - Includes references and index N2 - Early Learning and Development provides a unique synthesis of cultural-historical theory from Vygotsky, Elkonin and Leontiev in the 20th century to the ground-breaking research of scholars such as Siraj-Blatchford, Kratsova and Hedegaard today. It demonstrates how development and learning are culturally embedded and institutionally defined, and it reflects specifically upon the implications for the early childhood profession ER -