136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is about how children become competent people who understand and can act on and even transform the world. Its novel framework of 4A agency shows how children participate in making as audience, assistant, apprentice and artisan in makerspaces and in make-believe, music-making and toy-making.
The book explains why it is important that children are provided with opportunities for... Read more
1. The child as Homo faber 2. Cognition And Agency 3. Making And Mimesis 4. Ludic Agency 5. Design Agency 6. Collective Agency And Music-Making 7. Makerspaces And Weaving Knowledge 8. Material Agency 9. Conclusion
Biography
Karen Wells is Professor of International Development and Childhood Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research. She is the author of Childhood in a Global Perspective, Childhood Studies: Making Young Subjects and Visual Cultures of Childhood.
