Moving Forward Together: Early childhood programs as the doorway to social cohesion. An East-West Perspective

This book, to be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (United Kingdom) in 2010, is an edited volume of peer reviewed papers based on the ideas presented during the 17th EECERA Conference Exploring Vygotsky’s Ideas: Crossing Borders, hosted by ISSA in Prague, September 2007.  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.  The book is edited by Aija Tuna, ISSA Program Director and Jacqueline Hayden, Professor of Early Childhood and Social Inclusion, Macquarie University (Australia).