ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book reviews aspects of communication for children in a wide sense: children’s communications, communications with children, and communications about children. It explores a further element of the developmental dyad as identified by U. Bronfenbrenner: the shifting balance of power towards the developing person. The book explains the part played by pedagogical leadership in the development of an effective environment for communication development. It identifies the benefits, but also the challenges, of collaboration and communication within settings and between settings to support provision and improvement of the enabling communication environment. The book examines the subtle messages communicated by the environment, through a specific discussion of the toys and resources offered to children within settings. It focuses on another aspect of Bronfenbrenner’s theory: that of the macrosystem and “forces emanating from more remote regions in the larger physical and social milieu”.
