David Kennedy is Associate Professor of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University.

• Preface    1. Questioning Childhood       Whose Child?Which Adult?The Western Construction of ChildhoodTheorizing Childhood Adult-Child Dialogue The Child Before Us: Education, Parenting, and the Evolution of Subjectivity    2. The Primordial Child        The Divine ChildThe Romantic Child Romanticism, Education, and the New Humanity    3. The Invention of Adulthood       Adultism and Models of the Self The Evolution of Adulthood/Childhood The Evolution of the Adult-Child Relationship   4. Childhood and the Intersubject        Boundary WorkThe Ego DethronedThe Emergence of the Intersubject Psychogenic Theory of History and the Present AgeThe Dialectics of Reason and DesireThe Privileged Stranger   5. Reimagining School        The Purposes of SchoolingThe Space of DialogueThe School as Laboratory of the Third Way of Living The Dark and the Light NotesBibliographyIndex

David Kennedy is Associate Professor of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University.

• Preface    1. Questioning Childhood       Whose Child?Which Adult?The Western Construction of ChildhoodTheorizing Childhood Adult-Child Dialogue The Child Before Us: Education, Parenting, and the Evolution of Subjectivity    2. The Primordial Child        The Divine ChildThe Romantic Child Romanticism, Education, and the New Humanity    3. The Invention of Adulthood       Adultism and Models of the Self The Evolution of Adulthood/Childhood The Evolution of the Adult-Child Relationship   4. Childhood and the Intersubject        Boundary WorkThe Ego DethronedThe Emergence of the Intersubject Psychogenic Theory of History and the Present AgeThe Dialectics of Reason and DesireThe Privileged Stranger   5. Reimagining School        The Purposes of SchoolingThe Space of DialogueThe School as Laboratory of the Third Way of Living The Dark and the Light NotesBibliographyIndex

David Kennedy is Associate Professor of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University.

• Preface    1. Questioning Childhood       Whose Child?Which Adult?The Western Construction of ChildhoodTheorizing Childhood Adult-Child Dialogue The Child Before Us: Education, Parenting, and the Evolution of Subjectivity    2. The Primordial Child        The Divine ChildThe Romantic Child Romanticism, Education, and the New Humanity    3. The Invention of Adulthood       Adultism and Models of the Self The Evolution of Adulthood/Childhood The Evolution of the Adult-Child Relationship   4. Childhood and the Intersubject        Boundary WorkThe Ego DethronedThe Emergence of the Intersubject Psychogenic Theory of History and the Present AgeThe Dialectics of Reason and DesireThe Privileged Stranger   5. Reimagining School        The Purposes of SchoolingThe Space of DialogueThe School as Laboratory of the Third Way of Living The Dark and the Light NotesBibliographyIndex