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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823603103321

Autore

Austin Helena <1963->

Titolo

Schooling the child : the making of students in classrooms / / Helena Austin, Bronwyn Dwyer, and Peter Freebody

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeFalmer, 2003

ISBN

1-134-57501-7

1-134-57502-5

9786610137954

1-280-13795-9

0-203-99499-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Classificazione

77.55

81.23

Altri autori (Persone)

DwyerBronwyn

FreebodyPeter

Disciplina

305.231

Soggetti

Child development - Social aspects

Educational sociology

Educational psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I Considering childhood; Part II Respecifying the institutional child; Part III Re-producing the Schoolchild; Part IV Revisiting the production of the Child; Appendix: analytic methods; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

What is a child?How is the concept of childhood defined?This book aims to explore these perennial and complex questions by looking at the way in which society constructs and understands childhood. The authors focus in particular on the school, a key location within which social and cultural notions of childhood are defined and performed.The book is divided into three major parts:Part 1 frames the accepted notions of childhood and schooling, and introduces ethnomethodological analysis as a tool to rethink current versions of the child.Part 2