"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