1st Edition
Children, Home and School Regulation, Autonomy or Connection?
Edited By Ros Edwards
Copyright 2002
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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In contemporary western societies, there are increasing emphases on children being the responsibility of their parents, contained within the home, and on their compartmentalisation into separate and protected organised educational settings. Thus 'home' and 'school' form a crucial part of children's lives and experiences. This book explores the key institutional settings of home and school, and... Read more
1. Introduction: Conceptualising Relationships Between Home and School in Children's Lives 2. Students' Rights in British Schools: Trust, Autonomy, Connection and Regulation 3. Education Reform in New Zealand: Where Were the Children? 4. School's Out? Out of School Clubs at the Boundary of Home and School 5. Portrait of Callum: The Disabling of a Childhood? 6. Adults as Resources and Adults as Burdens - the Strategies of Children in the Age of School-Home Collaboration 7. Home and School Constraints in Children's Experience of Socialisation in Geneva 8. Minding the Gap: Children and Young People Negotiating Relations Between Home and School 9. Priming Events, Autonomy and Agency in Low Income Africa-American Children's Transition from Home to School 10. Negotiating Boundaries: Tensions within Home and School for Refugee Children 11. Young People Between Home and School
Biography
Ros Edwards is Professor in Social Policy at the Social Sciences Research Centre, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, South Bank University. She has published widely.
