ABSTRACT
Children develop through everyday activities participating in different practices in societal institutions, but neither society nor its institutions (i.e. families, kindergarten, school, youth clubs, etc.) are static but change over time in a dynamic interaction between persons’ activities, institutional traditions for practice, societal discourse, and material conditions. Several different types of institutional practices influence children’s life and development. At the same time children’s development can be seen as socio-cultural tracks through different institutions.
