Although child and childhood research today constitutes an international and interdisciplinary field of research, knowledge about children's educational experiences is still marginal. This book introduces a new approach to educational research of children and childhood by focusing on the children's own perspective on learning, teaching, and school. It clarifies the theoretical and methodological background, and it presents studies and research projects in educational child research from the US, Germany, Japan, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Sweden, and Spain. (Series: Studies of the Educational Experience of Children / Padagogische Kinderforschung - Vol. 1) Subject: Education, Children's Studies]