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Conceptualising Child-Adult Relations
172 Pages
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Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Conceptualising Child-Adult Relations focuses on how children conceptualise and experience child-adult relations. The authors explore the idea of generation as a key to understanding children's agency in intersection with social worlds which are largely organised and ordered by adults. The authors explore two interconnected themes: how children define the division of labour between children and... Read more
List of illustrations, Notes on contributors, Preface, Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction, 2 Explorations in generational analysis, 3 Negotiating autonomy: childhoods in rural Bolivia, 4 Dependent, independent and interdependent relations: children as members of the family household in West Berlin, 5 The negotiation of influence: children’s experience of parental education practices in Geneva, 6 What are schools for? The temporal experience of children’s learning in Northern England, 7 Culture and childhood in pastoralist communities: the example of Outer Mongolia, 8 Some Sydney children define abuse: implications for agency in childhood, 9 Understanding childhoods: a London study, 10 Childhood as a generational condition: children’s daily lives in a central Finland town, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Leena Alanen, Berry Mayall
