Well of Being

Childhood, Subjectivity, and Education

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Offers a sweeping review of conceptions of and approaches to childhood.In this wide-ranging work, David Kennedy undertakes a philosophically grounded analysis of the history of childhood, the history of adulthood, and their interrelationship. Using themes and perspectives from the history of childhood, mythology, psychoanalysis, art, literature, philosophy, and education, the author locates the experience of childhood across all stages of the human life cycle, and thereby weighs its transformative potential for human culture. He offers a nuanced approach to child study that raises issues about how adults see children and how children see themselves, which could lead to a qualitatively different system of teacher preparation-a system that views the child as participant rather than object in the structure of social reproduction. This sweeping review of conceptions of and approaches to childhood yields a profound vision of what schooling should be like.

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Utgivningsdatum2006-07-13
Mått149 x 226 x 15 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series, Early Childhood Education: Inquiries and Insights
Antal sidor247
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791468265

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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