Contextualizing Childhoods: Growing Up in Europe and North America

Author:   Sam Frankel ,  Sally McNamee
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019
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9783030069384


Pages:   279
Publication Date:   31 January 2019
Format:   Paperback
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This edited collection draws together a variety of contexts of contemporary childhoods, linking thinking from Canada with spaces in the UK and Sweden. The contributors explores the discourses that shape those childhoods and how this then impacts on the way that children come to experience their everyday lives. The aim of the book is not to reflect the entirety of childhood experience but to draw off particular expertise that shine a light into partial, yet significant areas of children’s lives, with the contributions engaging with a range of voices and perspectives. As a result, the collection advocates the need for childhood studies to zoom out from a predisposition to isolate the child, which has been seen as a necessary part of conceptualizing childhood. As a result, the book focuses on a ‘context’ for childhoods through a consideration of both structure and agency, and through this seeks to recognise the interconnected nature of the arenas within which children live their everyday lives. A range of themes are covered, including the education system, identity within the home, suicide in communities, and younger children’s 'political' engagement and sense of belonging. Contextualising Childhoods will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, law, and education.

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Author:   Sam Frankel ,  Sally McNamee
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783030069384


ISBN 10:   3030069389
Pages:   279
Publication Date:   31 January 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction; Sam Frankel and Sally McNamee.- 2. Childhood Agonistes: The Liminal Horizons of Late Modern Childhood; Alan Pomfret.- 3. After the Century of the Child: Swedish Education and the Transformation of the Role of the Child; Peter Lilja and Despina Tzimoula.- 4. Pencil Box Journey: Old Colony Mennonite children, education, and schooling; Wendy Crocker.- 5. Contexts of Twinship: Discourses and Generation; Kate Bacon.- 6.The Art of Belonging; Sam Frankel.- 7. Reflections on global citizenship narratives in Canadian higher education through international experiential/service learning:  Moving toward new practices for youth and global poverty engagement; Allyson Larkin.- 8. Children and Death in the Canadian Context; Eunice Gorman.- 9. Lives lost, voices unheard: Examining the importance of youth-led research amidst one community’s adult-centred responses to youth suicides; Tara Bruno.- 10. Britain, Brexit and Belonging: Concluding thoughts; Sally McNamee and Sam Frankel.

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Sam Frankel is Creative Director of EquippingKids (UK) and Assistant Professor at King’s University College, Western University, Canada.  Sally McNamee is an Associate Professor at King’s University College, Western University, Canada.

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