ABSTRACT
In this final chapter, we bring together the discussions in which we have analysed common knowledge from the literature, cultural-historical theory and empirical studies that presented different play narratives and crossed contexts and cultures to draw out various pathways to social interaction and friendship. This culminates in a theoretical model directed towards a better understanding of friendship as a concept. The model depicts interconnected collaborative perspectives of friendship and draws together institutional practices, nested within particular societies and diverse individual perspectives. Together, with moral imagination, supports an understanding of social relations and pathways to friendships, both within and between different institutional settings (e.g., family, preschool and school). The use of Hedegaard’s (2008, 2012) model provoked the idea of looking across the preschool and home settings to varying individual perspectives in institutions situated within Malaysia and Mexico.
