Beschreibung:
The goal of this book is to re-define the ways in which common sense and professional understandings about children re-construct, re-accomplish and sustain childhood as an experience for young people. The book extends contemporary research and theory by exploring their currency among a highly significant sector of the adult population; school teachers. For it is the school, as a key social location, that actively constructs consensual, culturally validated definitions of the Child.
Section I 1. Framing Childhood 2. Rethinking Children and Childhood 3. Rethinking Schooling and Classrooms 4. Reconsidering Social Action and Social Structure Section II: Respecifying the Institutional Child 5. The School Child 6. The Classroom Child: Variations on a Theme 7. The Child of the Group Section III: The Materials of Education 8. The Materials of Education 9. Teaching the Category into Being 10. The Students' Writing Section IV 11. The Public Specification of the Child