Constructing Childhood

Author : Allison James
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230214279

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Constructing Childhood by Allison James Pdf

This text provides a critical analysis of the social construction of childhood and children's agency. Through an interdisciplinary synthesis combining social theory, social policy and the empirical findings of social science research, it bridges the current gap between theory and practice, offering an incisive theoretical account of childhood that is grounded in substantive areas of children's lives such as health, education, crime and the family. This furthers understanding of the impact of policy on children's everyday lives and social experiences.

Author : Allison James,Alan Prout
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135715489

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Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood by Allison James,Alan Prout Pdf

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Allison James,Alan Prout
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317593812

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Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood by Allison James,Alan Prout Pdf

When the first edition of this seminal work appeared in 1990, the sociology of childhood was only just beginning to emerge as a distinct sub-discipline. Drawing together strands of existing sociological writing about childhood and shaping them into a new paradigm, the original edition of this Routledge Classic offered a potent blend of ideas that informed, even inspired, many empirical studies of children’s lives because it provided a unique lens through which to think about childhood. Featuring a collection of articles which summarised the developments in the study of childhood across the social sciences, including history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, feminist and developmental studies, scholars and professionals from developed and developing countries world-wide shared their knowledge of having worked and of working with children. Now with a new introduction from the editors to contextualise it into the 21st century, this truly ground-breaking text which helped establish childhood studies as a distinctive field of enquiry is being republished.

Author : Shirley R. Steinberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429963643

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Kinderculture by Shirley R. Steinberg Pdf

America is a corporatized society defined by a culture of consumerism, and the youth market is one of the groups that corporations target most. By marketing directly to children, through television, movies, radio, video games, toys, books, and fast food, advertisers have produced a 'kinderculture'. In this eye-opening book, editor Shirley R. Steinberg reveals the profound impact that our purchasing-obsessed culture has on our children and argues that the experience of childhood has been reshaped into something that is prefabricated. Analyzing the pervasive influence of these corporate productions, top experts in the fields of education, sociology, communications, and cultural studies contribute incisive essays that students, parents, educators, and general readers will find insightful and entertaining. Including seven new chapters, this third edition is thoroughly updated with examinations of the icons that shape the values and consciousness of today's children, including Twilight, True Blood, and vampires, hip hop, Hannah Montana, Disney, and others.

Author : Kerry H. Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136304163

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Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood by Kerry H. Robinson Pdf

Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood provides a critical examination of the way we regulate children’s access to certain knowledge and explores how this regulation contributes to the construction of childhood, to children’s vulnerability and to the constitution of the ‘good’ future citizen in developed countries. Through this controversial analysis, Kerry H. Robinson critically engages with the relationships between childhood, sexuality, innocence, moral panic, censorship and notions of citizenship. This book highlights how the strict regulation of children’s knowledge, often in the name of protection or in the child’s best interest, can ironically, increase children’s prejudice around difference, increase their vulnerability to exploitation and abuse, and undermine their abilities to become competent adolescents and adults. Within her work Robinson draws upon empirical research to: provide an overview of the regulation and governance of children’s access to ‘difficult knowledge’, particularly knowledge of sexuality explore and develop Foucault’s work on the relationship between childhood and sexuality identify the impact of these discourses on adults’ understanding of childhood, and the tension that exists between their own perceptions of sexual knowledge, and the perceptions of children reconceptualise children’s education around sexuality. Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood is essential reading for both undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking courses in education, particularly with a focus on early childhood or primary teaching, as well as in other disciplines such as sociology, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural studies.

Author : John Matthews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135710873

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The Art of Childhood and Adolescence by John Matthews Pdf

The text is composed of research on the development of representational thinking from infancy through to adolescence. It makes a contribution to the theory of children's development and to practitioners' understanding.

Author : Ken J. Rotenberg,Shelley Hymel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521561353

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Loneliness in Childhood and Adolescence by Ken J. Rotenberg,Shelley Hymel Pdf

This book represents a comprehensive examination of loneliness in childhood and adolescence.

Author : David Jerner Martin
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 0766813193

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Constructing Early Childhood Science by David Jerner Martin Pdf

Open-ended inquiry activities from a constructionist perspective for young children. Basic processes include: observing, classifying, communicating, measuring, predicting, and inferring,

Author : A. Prout
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780333983638

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The Body, Childhood and Society by A. Prout Pdf

Bringing together two topics of wide and growing sociological interest, The Body, Childhood and Society examines how children's bodies are constructed in schools, families, courts, hospitals and in film. Recognising that children's bodies are a target for adult practices of social regulation, the contributors show that children are also active in their construction, employ them in resistance and social action, and generate their own meanings about them. The editor, a leading sociologist of childhood, draws out the theoretical implications of this work, indicates the limits of social constructionism, and suggests new ways of thinking about the hybrid of material, discursive and collective processes involved. It will be a valuable text for social scientists interested in the body, childhood, schooling, the law, medicine and health.

Author : Rita Chen
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 1433101610

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Early Childhood Identity by Rita Chen Pdf

Using information gathered from a combined first and second grade classroom over two years, this book explores the students' routine actions in school, including their views about different literacy activities, their favorite part of school life, peer culture in both the boys' and the girls' worlds, issues of gender power, the integration of the teacher's official discourses and the children's unofficial culture, and the kind of school life children wish to have. Focusing on children's voices and perceptions, this book provides insight that will help educators preserve an accurate view of school culture and create effective policies in education. The book's interdisciplinary approach extensively applies theories and perspectives from educational philosophy, educational anthropology, sociology, post-structuralist theories, narratives, semiotics, literacy education, cultural studies, and critical ethnography. Through these disciplines, the book provides many critical perspectives on early childhood literacy education, classroom culture, and identity construction for educators to incorporate into curriculum design and to reflect on the potential consequences resulting from instructional decisions.

Author : Elizabeth Lennox Keyser,Julie Pfeiffer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300094893

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Children's Literature by Elizabeth Lennox Keyser,Julie Pfeiffer Pdf

Annual of The Modern Language Association Division on Children’s Literature and The Children’s Literature Association ARTICLES: Perry Nodelman Speculations on the Characteristics of Children’s Fiction; Roderick McGillis The Pleasure of the Process; Thomas Travisano Of Dialectic and Divided Consciousness; Margaret R. Higonnet A Pride of Pleasures; Perry Nodelman The Urge to Sameness; Kenneth Kidd Boyology in the Twentieth Century; Marilynn Olson Turn-of-the-Century Grotesque; Peter Hollindale Plain Speaking; Hamida Bosmajian Doris Orgel’s The Devil in Vienna; Joseph Stanton Maurice Sendak’s Urban Landscapes. VARIA: Andrea Immel James Pettit Andrews’s "Books" (1790); Penny Mahon "Things by Their Right Name"; Phyllis Bixler The Lion and the Lamb. IN MEMORIAM: R. H. W. Dillard In Memoriam: Francelia Butler, 1913–1998; John Cech In Mansfield Hollow: For Francelia; Eric Dawson Francelia’s Dream. REVIEWS: Anita Tarr "Still so much work to be done"; Gillian Adams A Fuzzy Genre; Kenneth Kidd Crosswriting the School Story; Raymond E. Jones A New Salvo in the Literary Battle of the Sexes; Stephen Canham From Wonderland to the Marketplace; Jan Susina Dealing with Victorian Fairies; Gregory Eiselein Reading a Feminist Romance; Anne K. Phillips The Wizard of Oz in the Twentieth Century; June Cummins "Where the Girls Are"—and Aren’t; Deborah Stevenson Letters from the Editor; Hamida Bosmajian Dangerous Images; Roberta Seelinger Trites The Transactional School of Children’s Literature Criticism. DISSERTATIONS OF NOTE: Mary Mayfield and Rachel Fordyce

Author : Allison James,Chris Jenks,Alan Prout
Publisher : Polity
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745615643

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Theorizing Childhood by Allison James,Chris Jenks,Alan Prout Pdf

Author : Linda A. White
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487514464

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Constructing Policy Change by Linda A. White Pdf

In Constructing Policy Change, Linda A. White examines the expansion of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies and programs in liberal welfare states, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA. In the first part of the book, the author investigates the sources of policy ideas that triggered ECEC changes in various national contexts. This is followed by a close analysis of cross-national variation in the implementation of ECEC policy in Canada and the USA. White argues that the primary mechanisms for policy change are grounded in policy investment logics as well as cultural logics: that is, shifts in public sentiments and government beliefs about the value of ECEC policies and programs are rooted in both evidence-based arguments and in principled beliefs about the policy. A rich, nuanced examination of the reasons motivating ECEC policy expansion and adoption in different countries, Constructing Policy Change is a corrective to the comparative welfare state literature that focuses on political interest alone.

Author : Marilyn Narey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780387875392

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Making Meaning by Marilyn Narey Pdf

Making Meaning is a synthesis of theory, research, and practice that explicitly presents art as a meaning making process. This book provokes readers to examine their current understandings of language, literacy and learning through the lens of the various arts-based perspectives offered in this volume; provides a starting point for constructing broader, multimodal views of what it might mean to “make meaning”; and underscores why understanding arts-based learning as a meaning-making process is especially critical to early childhood education in the face of narrowly-focused, test-driven curricular reforms. Each contributor integrates this theory and research with stories of how passionate teachers, teacher-educators, and pre-service teachers, along with administrators, artists, and professionals from a variety of fields have transcended disciplinary boundaries to engage the arts as a meaning-making process for young children and for themselves.

Author : Chris Jenks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000142846

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Childhood by Chris Jenks Pdf

In this book Chris Jenks looks at what the ways in which we construct our image of childhood can tell us about ourselves. After a general discussion of the social construction of childhood, the book is structured around three examples of the way the image of the child is played out in society: the history of childhood from medieval times through the enlightenment 'discovery' of childhood to the present the mythology and reality of child abuse and society's response to it the 'death' of childhood in cases such as the James Bulger murder in which the child itself becomes the perpetrator of evil. Part of the highly successful Key Ideas series, this book gives students a concise, provocative insight into some of the controlling concepts of our culture.