Children's Perspectives on Their Everyday Lives in Child Care in Two Cultures: Denmark and the United States

Early Childhood Education Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-27

  Kragh Müller, Grethe ^a   Isbell, Rebecca ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child care; Child interviews; Children's engagements; Children's perspectives; Cross cultural; Peer interactions; Play and learning; Teacher child interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953047280     PISSN: 10823301     EISSN: 15731707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10643-010-0434-9     Document Type: Article

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