Airplane Grows in the Tummy of Clouds: Living Through Relations in the Early Years of Life

Using a child’s expression that illustrates his mental image of constituted relations of living things, the author conceptualizes relationality, an interrelated view of being, and its importance for early childhood education. The difference between relation and interaction, and the significance of inter-human relationship are discussed as signifi

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