This exciting new book illustrates and analyses the complexities of children and young people's everyday lived experiences throughout childhood. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it provides theoretical frameworks and case studies to critically examine assumptions in the field and explore emerging perspectives.

This collection of international research offers fresh perspectives on children's creative processes and the expression of their creative imagination together with informed theoretical critiques of current educational practice.

This book is about classroom discourse and looks particularly at the relationship between language, interaction and learning.