‎"‎Motives in Children‎'‎s Development is devoted to the important yet insufficiently explored topic of motivation and emotion in childhood development‎.‎ This volume makes important steps forward in developing and elaborating a theoretical framework that shifts the unit of analysis in psychology away from the individual toward social interactions and relationships between children and their social world‎.‎‎"‎ ‎- Anne Stetsenko‎,‎ The Graduate Center of the City of New York ‎"‎‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎Hedegaard ‎(‎psychology‎,‎ Univ‎.‎ of Copenhagen‎,‎ Denmark‎)‎‎,‎ Edwards ‎(‎education‎,‎ Oxford Univ‎.‎‎,‎ UK‎)‎‎,‎ and Fleer ‎(‎education‎,‎ Monash Univ‎.‎‎,‎ Australia‎)‎ have edited a collection of papers dealing with a topic rarely touched on in the US‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎ This collection will be of more interest to theorists of education‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎‎"‎ ‎-‎-J‎.‎ Mercer‎,‎ emerita‎,‎ Richard‎,‎ Stockton College‎,‎ CHOICE