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The Well of Being: Childhood, Subjectivity, and Education

By David Kennedy

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0791468259, 9780791468258, 0791468267, 9780791468265, 9781429411899
LCC
HQ767.9. K453 2006
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2026272 bytes)
Series
Early Childhood Education: Inquiries and Insights
Pages
235\250
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this wide-ranging work, David Kennedy undertakes a philosophically grounded analysis of the history of childhood, the history of adulthood, and their interrelationship. Using themes and perspectives from the history of childhood, mythology, psychoanalysis, art, literature, philosophy, and education, the author locates the experience of childhood across all stages of the human life cycle, and thereby weighs its transformative potential for human culture. He offers a nuanced approach to child study that raises issues about how adults see children and how children see themselves, which could lead to a qualitatively different system of teacher preparation—a system that views the child as participant rather than object in the structure of social reproduction. This sweeping review of conceptions of and approaches to childhood yields a profound vision of what schooling should be like.

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