Motives in Children's Development

Part I. Motives, Emotions and Development: 1. The dynamic aspects between children's learning and development Mariane Hedegaard; 2. The connections between motives and will in the development of personality Elena Kravtsova and Gennady Kravtsov; 3. Advancing on the concept of sense: subjective sense and subjective configurations in human development Fernando Gonzales Rey; 4. Early stages in children's cultural development Vladimir P. Zinchenko; Part II. Cultural Practice Motives and Development: 5. The development of motives in children's play Marilyn Fleer; 6. Developing motivation through peer interaction: a cross-cultural analysis Jose Sanchez Medina and Virginia Martinez; 7. Developing social identities and motives in school transitions Ditte Winther-Lindquist; 8. Motives matter: a cultural historical approach to IT mediated subject matter teaching Kåre Stenild and Ole Iversen; 9. Motivation for school learning: enhancing the meaningfulness of learning in communities of learners Willem Wardekker, Annoesjka Boersma, Geert ten Dam and Monique Volman; Part III. Creating Conditions for Children's Engagement: 10. Expertise in the children's workforce: knowledge and motivation in engagement with children Anne Edwards; 11. Changing situations and motives Harry Daniels; 12. A conceptual perspective for investigating motive in cultural-historical theory Seth Chaiklin.