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Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood

Author : Florian Esser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317524403
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood written by Florian Esser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By regarding children as actors and conducting empirical research on children’s agency, Childhood Studies have gained significant influence on a wide range of different academic disciplines. This has made agency one of the key concepts of Childhood Studies, with articles on the subject featured in handbooks and encyclopaedias. Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood is the first collection devoted to the central concept of agency in Childhood Studies. With contributions from experts in the field, the chapters cover theoretical, practical, historical, transnational and institutional dimensions of agency, rekindling discussion and introducing fundamental and contemporary sociological perspectives to the field of research. Particular attention is paid to connecting agency in the social sciences with Childhood Studies, considering both the theoretical foundations and the practice of research into agency. Empirical case studies are also explored, which focus upon child protection, schools and childcare at a variety of institutions worldwide. This book is an essential reference for students and scholars of Childhood Studies, and is also relevant to Sociology, Social Work, Education, Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) and Geography. Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development

Author : Karl Hanson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107031516
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development written by Karl Hanson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from a range of different disciplines explore how best to implement children's rights.

Childhood Cultures in Transformation

Author : Elin Eriksen Ødegaard
Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 : 9789004433656
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)

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Book Synopsis Childhood Cultures in Transformation by : Elin Eriksen Ødegaard

Download or read book Childhood Cultures in Transformation written by Elin Eriksen Ødegaard and published by Brill. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of Childhood Cultures in Transformation offers valuable examples, overviews and fresh critique after 30 years with the UNCRC in action. The book takes a Nordic glance and presents missing voices of children, young people, researchers and child experts.

Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood

Author : Affrica Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415687713
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood written by Affrica Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating new book, Affrica Taylor encourages an exciting paradigmatic shift in the ways in which childhood and nature are conceived and pedagogically deployed, and invites readers to critically reassess the naturalist childhood discourses that are rife within popular culture and early years education. Through adopting a common worlds framework, Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood generates a number of complex and inclusive ways of seeing and representing the early years. It recasts childhood as: messy and implicated rather than pure and innocent; situated and differentiated rather than decontextualized and universal; entangled within real world relations rather than protected in a separate space. Throughout the book, the author follows an intelligent and innovative line of thought which challenges many pre-existing ideas about childhood. Drawing upon cross-disciplinary perspectives, and with international relevance, this book makes an important contribution to the field of childhood studies and early childhood education, and will be a valuable resource for scholars, postgraduate students and higher education teachers.

Found in Translation

Author : Nicola Yelland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351675923
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Found in Translation written by Nicola Yelland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Found in Translation: Connecting Reconceptualist Thinking with Early Childhood Education Practices highlights the relationships between reconceptualist theory and classroom practice. Each chapter in this edited collection considers a contemporary issue and explores its potential to disrupt the status quo and be meaningful in the lives of young children. The book pairs reconceptualist academics and practitioners to discuss how theories can be relevant in everyday educational contexts, working with children who are from a wide range of cultural, ethnic, gender, language, and social orientations to enable previously unimagined ways of being, thinking, and doing in contemporary times.

Agency and Participation in Childhood and Youth

Author : Caroline Sarojini Hart
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472514866
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Agency and Participation in Childhood and Youth written by Caroline Sarojini Hart and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agency and Participation in Childhood and Youth presents new critical engagement in conceptualising the roles of youth agency and participation in education, development and the pursuit of social justice. Theoretically, the book is framed within the paradigm of the capability approach, initially developed by Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen, and further differentiated by others, including philosopher, Martha Nussbaum. The book unravels the complex relationships between the nature of youth agency and participation, in education, but also in wider political, economic and social arenas, and the potential of young people to expand their freedoms to lead lives they have reason to value. It is thus argued that ethical, sustainable development is contingent on the nature of youth agency and participation in schooling and further afield. Bringing together leading international experts researching children's capabilities, Agency and Participation in Childhood and Youth offers a unique exploration of links between exciting new areas of development in theory, research and practical applications of Sen and Nussbaum's ideas. The book addresses a significant gap in the literature drawing on empirical data from the UK, the USA, Jordan, Palestine, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Switzerland, New Zealand and beyond, with perspectives presented from both within and outside schools and other formal educational settings. Agency and Participation in Childhood and Youth is of particular interest to academics, teaching professionals, undergraduate and postgraduate students of education studies, social policy, youth and development studies.

Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy

Author : Ingrid E. Castro
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498594301
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy by : Ingrid E. Castro

Download or read book Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy written by Ingrid E. Castro and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds explores linkages between children’s agency and fantasy. Fantasy as an integral aspect of childhood and as a genre allows for children’s spectacular dreams and hopeful realities. Friendship, family, identity, loyalty, belongingness, citizenry, and emotionality are central concepts explored in chapters that are anchored by humanities texts of television, film, and literature, but also by social science qualitative methods of participant observation and interviews. Fantasy has the capacity to be a revolutionary change agent that in its modernity can creatively reflect, critique, or reimagine the social, political, and cultural norms of our world. Such promise is also found to be true of children’s agency, wherein children’s beings and becomings, rooted in childhood’s freedoms and constraints, result in a range of outcomes. In the endeavor to broaden theory and research on children’s agency, fantasy becomes a point of possibility with its expanding subjectivities, far-reaching terrain, and spirit of adventure.

The Agency of Children

Author : David Oswell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521843669
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Agency of Children written by David Oswell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses the idea of children's agency to survey the main issues in childhood studies.

Child Sexual Exploitation: Why Theory Matters

Author : Pearce, Jenny
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 144735141X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Book Synopsis Child Sexual Exploitation: Why Theory Matters by : Pearce, Jenny

Download or read book Child Sexual Exploitation: Why Theory Matters written by Pearce, Jenny and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of Child Sexual Exploitation is firmly in the public spotlight internationally and in the UK, but just how well is it understood? To date, many CSE-related services have been developed in reaction to high profile cases rather than being designed more strategically. This much needed book breaks new ground by considering how psychosocial studies, feminist and geo-environmental theories, amongst others, can improve practice understanding and interventions. Edited by one of the leading scholars in the field, this text will help those planning strategic interventions and practice activities in social, youth and therapeutic work with young people to properly grasp how CSE arises and how to challenge the nature of abuse.

Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction

Author : Ingrid E. Castro
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498597394
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction by : Ingrid E. Castro

Download or read book Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction written by Ingrid E. Castro and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection merges representations of children and youth in various science fiction texts with childhood studies theories and debates. Set in the past, present, and future, science fiction landscapes and technologies sometimes constrain, but often expand, agentic expression, movement, and collaboration.

Exploring Materiality in Childhood

Author : Maarit Alasuutari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000218341
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Materiality in Childhood written by Maarit Alasuutari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Materiality in Childhood: Body, Relations and Space explores the multiple ways that childhood and materiality are intertwined and assembled. Bringing together a diverse range of authors, this topical book makes a scholarly contribution to our understanding of the entanglements of materiality and childhoods in international contexts. Chapters explore how various environments and material resources, including technologies and consumer goods, affect children’s lives. The book caters to a diverse range of theories, in sociomaterialist, posthumanist, post-anthropocentric and more-than-human research, critically exploring the boundaries of these theoretical approaches with diverse empirical cases. These wide ranges of perspectives develop alternatives to human-centred approaches in understanding children and childhoods. With its diverse theoretical and methodological choices, the book also serves as a versatile example for how to conduct research with children and on childhood. This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers, and postgraduate students in childhood studies, early childhood education, social sciences, cultural sciences and sociology.

Disclosing Childhoods

Author : Spyros Spyrou
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137479043
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Disclosing Childhoods written by Spyros Spyrou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disclosing Childhoods offers a critical account of knowledge production in childhood studies. The book argues for the need to be reflexive about the knowledge practices of the field and to scrutinize the role of researchers in disclosing certain childhoods rather than others. A relational lens is used to critique the ongoing fixation of childhood studies with the unitary child-agent and to re-introduce the question of ontology in knowledge production. The author provides a critical account of childhood studies’ trajectory, as well as exploring the key concepts of voice, agency and participation, illustrating the potential of a reflexive stance towards knowledge production. Drawing on poststructuralist and posthumanist thinking, each of these concepts is critiqued for its conceptual limits while productive avenues are offered to reconfigure their utility. Spyrou also addresses the ethics and politics of knowledge production and considers key emerging insights which can contribute towards the development of a more reflexive and critical childhood studies. Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including childhood studies, anthropology, sociology and geography, will find this book of interest, as well as those interested in qualitative research methodology and social theory.

Children as Agents in Their Worlds

Author : Sheila Greene
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317233425
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Children as Agents in Their Worlds written by Sheila Greene and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are children the passive recipients of influence from their parents and from society? Is their development determined by their genes and their neurons, or do they have the capacity to think about and influence their own lives and the world around them? How does their interaction with their social and material worlds support or hinder agency? Are children agents, and what do we mean by agency? Children as Agents in Their Worlds aims to answer these questions through a critical psychological and relational approach, while referencing and critiquing a wide range of perspectives from other disciplines including sociology, anthropology and education. Greene and Nixon review the pioneering work of scholars of childhood studies and current post-human theories of agency and offer a developmental perspective on the emergence of the sense of agency and the exercise of agency in children. They discuss key themes including agency in families, agency within the school context and with peers, and children as agents in the wider public sphere. They explore agency and diversity, examining sex, age, genetic inheritance and contextual sources of difference, such as social class and geographical location. Offering a stronger theoretical base for research and policy, through a synthesis of both psychological and relational theories, Children as Agents in Their Worlds will be essential reading for students and professionals in developmental psychology, sociology and anthropology, as well as education, childhood studies, children’s rights and related fields.

Childhood

Author : Michael Wyness
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745689477
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Childhood written by Michael Wyness and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is childhood? In recent years, a cluster of critical and complex ideas have emerged around the nature of biological, social and psychological growth in the early years, reflecting the changing nature of adult - child relations, and political and cultural understandings of childhood in the twenty-first century. In this clear and concise book, Michael Wyness offers fresh insights into the current state of play within childhood studies. Drawing on work from a number of disciplines including sociology, geography and history, he discusses the contested terrain of theoretical and research advances with particular attention to the notion of children’s agency and the concept of global childhoods. Key conceptual debates are illustrated through a range of contemporary issues that affect children and adults, including inequality, child abuse, ill-health, child labour, sexualization and identity formation. This book will appeal to students and academics within the fields of sociology, education, geography, history and childhood studies.

Children, Childhood, and Everyday Life

Author : Mariane Hedegaard
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1641131713
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Children, Childhood, and Everyday Life written by Mariane Hedegaard and published by IAP. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional work on child development is often based on notions of an individual and decontextualized child. This volume involves a contribution to the rethinking of development: it presents a number of situated studies where children’s perspectives are documented through their interaction with others in situated practices, in family life and school and across social contexts. This volume offers a toolkit for analyzing children’s perspectives and participation over time. In prior work, the interview has often been seen as the cardinal method – or the only method – for studying children’s perspectives. This anthology includes vignettes and case studies, with descriptions of children’s actions in situated activity settings as well as illustrative transcripts from video-recorded social interaction. It opens up toward a broader view of ‘development’ in that it documents how children’s and youths’ perspectives and agency can be studied through their ways of interacting (or not interacting) in everyday life. One aspect of this is their verbal and nonverbal participation in family life and the social landscape of schools. Another feature is that it involves several chapters that problematize ‘impaired practices’ and dilemmas in the teaching of children with dysfunctions. The book as a whole is rich in empirical ethnographic examples that highlight life trajectories in and across social contexts. Moreover, it features interview data and narratives that include children’s and youths’ own reflections on their lives and experiences of the social demands of family and school. This includes their own thoughts on being or becoming members of local communities.

Representing Agency in Popular Culture

Author : Ingrid E. Castro
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498574955
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Representing Agency in Popular Culture written by Ingrid E. Castro and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing Agency in Popular Culture addresses the intersection of child and youth agency and popular culture. Here, scholars expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives, identifying popular culture as an important source of inspiration and inquiry within the future of childhood studies.

Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education

Author : Marianne N. Bloch
Publisher : Rethinking Childhood
ISBN 13 : 9781433123665
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education written by Marianne N. Bloch and published by Rethinking Childhood. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education is a foundational text, which presents contemporary theories and debates about early education and child care in many nations. Audiences include students in graduate courses focused on early childhood and primary education, critical cultural studies of childhood, critical curriculum studies and critical theories.