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Record Nr.

UNINA9910698649003321

Titolo

Childhood, Learning & Everyday Life in Three Asia-Pacific Cities [[electronic resource] ] : Experiences from Melbourne, Hong Kong and Singapore / / edited by I-Fang Lee, Sue Saltmarsh, Nicola Yelland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023

ISBN

981-9904-86-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (V, 161 p. 33 illus., 22 illus. in color.)

Collana

Global Childhoods in the Asia-Pacific, , 2730-7824 ; ; 1

Disciplina

372.21

Soggetti

Early childhood education

Education

Children

Educational sociology

Education and state

Sociology

Social groups

Early Childhood Education

Childhood Education

Sociology of Education

Educational Policy and Politics

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

Educació infantil

Escolars

Condicions socials

Llibres electrònics

Melbourne (Austràlia)

Hong Kong (Xina)

Singapur

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: The Global Childhoods Project: Learning and Everyday Life in Three Global Cities -- Chapter 2 : Out and About in Global Cities --



Chapter 3: Exploring the Scholarly Habitus in Children’s Lifeworlds: High-Stakes Testing and Educational Capital -- Chapter 4: Picturing Policy: Visual Representations of Curriculum Policy in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore -- Chapter 5: Everyday Learning Looks Like this: Classroom Ethnographies in Three Global Cities -- Chapter 6: Everyday Out-of-School Lifeworlds Look Like this: Children’s Activities in Three Global Cities -- Chapter 7: Picturing Educational and Future Success -- Chapter 8: Rethinking Global Childhoods: Learning and Everyday Life in Three Global Cities.

Sommario/riassunto

This book introduces findings from an international, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary study of children’s everyday experiences of growing up and going to school in the context of the three global cities of Hong Kong, Singapore and Melbourne. It takes the premise that children’s learning and orientations to educational success are shaped by everyday cultural practices at home and at school, by policy contexts that both produce and respond to educational and cultural norms, and by individual and familial desires and aspirations. Drawing on research conducted with primary school-aged children in Year 4, the book considers how day-to-day routines such as going to school, engaging in extra-curricular activities outside of school, and spending time at home with family intersect with the broader milieus of education policy ideals in a changing and interconnected world. Through a combination of visual methodologies, surveys, ethnographic observations in schools, classrooms and cityscapes, re-enactments of everyday activities with children at home, and sociological education policy analysis, this book shows both the richness of children’s everyday lives and learning in global cities, as well as exploring questions that pose challenges to educational and social norms.