Children, childhood, and everyday life : children's perspective

Traditional work on child development is often based on notions of an individual and decontextualized child. This volume involves a contribution to the rethinking of development: it presents a number of situated studies where children's perspectives are documented through their interaction with...

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Other Authors Hedegaard, Mariane (Editor), Aronsson, Karin (Editor), Højholt, Charlotte (Editor), Ulvik, Oddbjørg Skjær (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Pub., [2012]
Subjects
Child development.
Perception in children.
Socialization.
Psychology > Developmental > Child.
Child, developmental and lifespan psychology.
Age groups: children.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806608164
DOI10.1108/978-1-64113-171-1
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 215 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Rethinking development: Situated studies of children's perspectives / Karin Aronsson, Mariane Hedegaard, Charlotte Højholt, and Oddbjørg Skjær Ulvik
  • Section i. Family life as a social arena
  • Chapter 1. Children's creative modeling of conflict resolutions in everyday life: Family life as a site of learning and development / Mariane Hedegaard
  • Chapter 2. Daily practices and the time politics of family life / Karin Aronsson
  • Chapter 3. Money talks: Children's consumption and becoming in the family / Lucas Gottzň
  • Chapter 4. Constructions of a culturally adequate child: Foster parents' developmental goals and strategies for their foster children / Oddbjørg Skjær Ulvik
  • Section ii. The social landscape of schools and residential care
  • Chapter 5. Children's perspectives and learning communities / Charlotte Højholt
  • Chapter 6. Family problems: Exploring dilemmas and complexities of organizing everyday family life / Dorte Kousholt
  • Chapter 7. Paradoxes of inclusion: Administrative procedures and children's everyday lives / Maja Røn-Larsen
  • Chapter 8. Using the child perspective to support children with severe impairments in becoming active subjects / Louise Bøttcher
  • Chapter 9. Residential care and children's development of agency in everyday life / Ida Schwartz
  • Section iii. Children's own reflections on social life and development
  • Chapter 10. Being oneself and being of use: On children's appropriation of values / Ruth E. Toverud
  • Chapter 11. Being a child, coming of age: Exploring processes of growing up / Liv Mette Gulbrandsen
  • Chapter 12. Social identity in transition: Two boys' stories when changing school / Ditte Winther-Lindqvist
  • Chapter 13. Remaining the same and children's experience of development / Pernille Hviid.

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