The well of being : childhood, subjectivity, and education / / David Kennedy

• Autore: Kennedy David <1943->
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.23
• Soggetto topico: Children; Children and adults; Education; Postmodernism
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-228) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- The Well of Being -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Questioning Childhood -- Whose Child? -- Which Adult? -- The Western Construction of Childhood -- Theorizing Childhood -- Adult-Child Dialogue -- The Child Before Us: Education, Parenting, and the Evolution of Subjectivity -- 2. The Primordial Child -- The Divine Child -- The Romantic Child -- Romanticism, Education, and the New Humanity -- 3. The Invention of Adulthood -- Adultism and Models of the Self -- The Evolution of Adulthood/Childhood -- The Evolution of the Adult-Child Relationship -- 4. Childhood and the Intersubject -- Boundary Work -- The Ego Dethroned -- The Emergence of the Intersubject -- Psychogenic Theory of History and the Present Age -- The Dialectics of Reason and Desire -- The Privileged Stranger -- 5. Reimagining School -- The Purposes of Schooling -- The Space of Dialogue -- The School as Laboratory of the Third Way of Living -- The Dark and the Light -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: Offers a sweeping review of conceptions of and approaches to childhood.
• Titolo autorizzato: The well of being
• ISBN: 0-7914-8146-8; 1-4294-1189-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807881203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series, early childhood education.