Children's Exploration and Cultural Formation

1. Introduction to Children's Exploration and Cultural Formation; Elin Eriksen Ødegaard and Mariane Hedegaard.- 2. Children's exploration as a key in children's play and learning activity in social and cultural formation; Mariane Hedegaard.- 3. Beyond Bullying - Understanding Children's Exploration of Inclusion and Exclusion Processes in Kindergarten; Ruth Ingrid Skoglund.- 4. Children's explorative activities in kindergarten playgrounds: A case study in China and Norway; Hanne Værum Sørensen and Åsta Birkeland.- 5. Conflict analyses: a methodology for exploring children's cultural formation in Early Childhood Education; Liv Torunn Grindheim.- 6. Dialogical engagement and the co-creation of cultures of exploration; Elin Eriksen Ødegaard.- 7. Historical roots of exploration - Through a Fröbelian third space; Andrea Eikset and Elin Eriksen Ødegaard.- 8. Exploration: Chinese kindergarten teachers' perceptions and practices; Aihua Hu.- 9. Kindergarten as a budding explorative scientificcommunity; Anne Synnøve Ekrene Hammer.- 10. Children as Music and Musical Explorers- Identifying Transition Points in Musicking; Tiri Bergesen Schei and Elin Eriksen Ødegaard.- 11. Exploration through process drama with kindergarten children; Siv Ødemotland.