Children, Childhood, and Everyday Life (eBook)

Karin Aronsson, Mariane Hedegaard, Charlotte Hojholt, Oddbjorg Skjer Ulvik (Herausgeber)

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2018 | 2. Auflage
265 Seiten
Information Age Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-64113-171-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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 videorecorded 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.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Children, Childhood, and Everyday Life 4
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 5
Contents 6
CHAPTER 1: Rethinking Development 8
SECTION I: FAMILY LIFE AS A SOCIAL ARENA 22
CHAPTER 2: Children’s Creative Modeling of Conflict Resolutions in Everyday Life 24
CHAPTER 3: Daily Practices and The Time Politics of Family Life 44
CHAPTER 4: Money Talks 62
CHAPTER 5: Constructions of a Culturally Adequate Child 80
SECTION II: THE SOCIAL LANDSCAPE OF SCHOOLS AND RESIDENTIAL CARE 98
CHAPTER 6: Children’s Perspectives and Learning Communities 100
CHAPTER 7: Family Problems 120
CHAPTER 8: Paradoxes of Inclusion 136
CHAPTER 9: Using the Child Perspective to Support Children With Severe Impairments in Becoming Active Subjects 156
CHAPTER 10: Residential Care and Children’s Development of Agency in Everyday Life 174
SECTION III: CHILDREN’S OWN REFLECTIONS ON SOCIAL LIFEAND DEVELOPMENT 192
CHAPTER 11: “Being Oneself” and “Being of Use” 194
CHAPTER 12: Being a Child, Coming of Age 210
CHAPTER 13: Social Identity in Transition 228
CHAPTER 14: “Remaining the Same” and Children’s Experience of Development 248

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• ISBN-10: 1-64113-171-3 / 1641131713
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64113-171-1 / 9781641131711