Taking Children and Young People Seriously: A Caring Relational Approach to Education

Mariane Hedegaard is Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychology at Copenhagen University, Denmark. She is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, UK and has an honorary degree from the University of Pablo de Olavide, Spain. The relations between children's motive orientation and institutional demands are central themes in her work. She has authored and edited several books, including Motives in Children's Development (2012) and Learning, Play and Children's Development (2013).

Anne Edwards is Professor Emerita in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, UK. She has honorary doctorates from the University of Helsinki, Finland and the University of Oslo, Norway for her work on cultural-historical approaches to learning across the lifespan. In 2022 her lifetime's contribution to the field was recognised by the Cultural-Historical Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association.