This book is the outcome of a joint collaboration between East China Normal University and the University of Luxembourg, initiated by the Center of Ideas for the Basic Education of the Future (IBEF), and focuses on kindergartens in China from a cultural psychology perspective.

Chapter 1 Research Tandems in international collaboration: Luxembourg-China.- Chapter 2 Dialogues on Basic Educational Needs: East and West.- Chapter 3 Setting the stage: Kindergarten in China as beginning of schooling.- Chapter 4 Cultural objects at ECNU Kindergarten.- Chapter 5 Moral education in a Shanghai kindergarten - how do children perceive social values and norms?.- Chapter 6 Chinese Preschoolers' Conflict negotiation in resource limited situations.- Chapter 7 Small Images of a Big World: Children's drawings in a Chinese Kindergarten.- Chapter 8 The Role of LEGO in Numeracy development: A case analysis.- Chapter 9 Children's construction of the natural numbers: some examples from a cultural background.- Chapter 10 The school as semiotic intercultural arena.- Chapter 11 Revisiting peer conflict from sociocultural perspective.- Chapter 12 GENERAL CONCLUSIONS: United research efforts of the young: Realizing potentials.