Reconceptualising agency and childhood : : new perspectives in childhood studies / / edited by Floran Esser. [et al.].
By regarding children as actors and conducting empirical research on children’s agency, Childhood Studies have gained significant influence on a wide range of different academic disciplines. This has made agency one of the key concepts of Childhood Studies, with articles on the subject featured in h...
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| Superior document: | Routledge research in education ; 161 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Routledge,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge research in education ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (291 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Reconceptualising agency and childhood: an introduction; SECTION I: Theoretical perspectives; 1. Re-aligning children's agency and re-socialising children in Childhood Studies; 2. Children as participants in practices: the challenges of practice theories to an actor-centred sociology of childhood; 3. Neither "thick" nor "thin": reconceptualising agency and childhood relationally; 4. Children's agency: contributions from feminist and ethic of care theories to sociology of childhood
- 5. Meanings of children's agency: when and where does agency begin and end?6. Extending agency: the merit of relational approaches for Childhood Studies; SECTION II: Children as actors in research; 7. Troubling children's voices in research; 8. Playing with socially constructed identity positions: accessing and reconstructing children's perspectives and positions through ethnographic fieldwork and creative workshops; SECTION III: Agency in historical perspective; 9. Tracing and contextualising childhood agency and generational order from historical and systematic perspectives
- 10. Martha Muchow's research on children's life space: a classic study on childhood in the light of the present11. "Children need boundaries": concepts of children's agency in German parents' guidebooks since 1950; SECTION IV: Transnational and majority world perspectives of agency; 12. Exploring children's agency across majority and minority world contexts; 13. Do the "mollycoddled" act? Children, agency and disciplinary entanglements in India; 14. Context matters! On non-working children's citizenship in South Indian children's rights initiatives as a practice
- SECTION V: Agency in institutions of childhood15. Agency: educators' imaginations as triggered by photographs of pre-school children; 16. Agency and the conceptualisation of minors in child protection case files; 17. Children as social actors and addressees? Reflections on the constitution of actors and (student) subjects in elementary school peer cultures; 18. Accounting for children's agency in research on educational inequality: the influence of children's own practices on their academic habitus in elementary school; Conclusion: potentials of a reconceptualised concept of agency; Index