New ISSA publication: "Early Childhood Programs as the Doorway to Social Cohesion: Application of Vygotsky's Ideas from an East West Perspective"

The International Step by Step Association is pleased to announce publication of the book "Early Childhood Programs as the Doorway to Social Cohesion: Application of Vygotsky's Ideas from an East West Perspective," now available from Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The book is an edited volume of peer reviewed papers based on research presented during the 17th EECERA Conference Exploring Vygotsky's Ideas: Crossing Borders. The main focus of the book is to illuminate how the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky has influenced early childhood education in both western and eastern contexts, and how his work has represented a seminal approach to the globalisation of ideas - long before that concept became part of the public discourse. As a peer reviewed, academic publication, this volume is meant to suggest ideas and build links between theory and practice, as well as to stimulate development of new thinking for successful implementation of quality early childhood education. ISSA is grateful to have had the opportunity to collect in this volume voices from the CEE/CIS region (including from among the ISSA network itself) alongside the voices of peers from the West and Asia. Authors contributing to the volume come from Australia, Azerbaijan, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Singapore, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The volume, created at the initiative of ISSA with generous financial support from the Bernard Van Leer Foundation, was edited by Aija Tuna, ISSA Program Specialist (The Netherlands/Latvia) and Jacqueline Hayden, Professor of Early Childhood and Social Inclusion, Macquarie University (Australia). Please click here to learn more or to order a copy of the book.

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