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The Child in Question - Childhood Texts, Cultures, and Curricula (Hardcover)
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The Child in Question - Childhood Texts, Cultures, and Curricula (Hardcover)
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What is a child? The concept of childhood is so familiar that we
tend to assume its universality. However, the meaning of childhood
is always being negotiated, not only by the imaginations of adults,
but also by nations, markets, history and children themselves. Yet,
as much as the question is considered by the social world, the
contributions in this book remind readers that children are also
active, embodied, and inquiring agents engaged in figuring a
relationship with that the world they inherit. This book's unifying
theme, "The child in question," emerges from an assertation that
childhood has boundaries far more elastic than can be held by the
familiar notion of the innocent child developing toward a
heteronormative future. The title pays homage to the work of
sociologist, Diana Gittins, who, over twenty years ago, asked how
the shifting meanings of children and childhood impact the lives of
children. The contributions of this book examine contemporary
educational policy and practice, curriculum material, literary and
visual representations, and teacher narratives to further probe how
and why it matters that childhood, as a concept and experience,
remains as multiple and elusive as ever. The chapters in this book
were originally published as a special issue of the journal,
Curriculum Inquiry.
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