The Child in the World/The World in the Child : Education and the Configuration of a Universal, Modern, and Globalized Childhood /

The contributors look at universalizing discourses concerning young children across the globe, which purport to describe everyone in a scientific and neutral way, but actually create mechanisms through which children are divided and excluded. The contributors to this book employ post-structuralist,...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Bloch, Marianne N. (Editor), Kennedy, Devorah (Editor), Lightfoot, Theodora (Editor), Weyenberg, Dar (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Series:Critical cultural studies of childhood.
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Summary:The contributors look at universalizing discourses concerning young children across the globe, which purport to describe everyone in a scientific and neutral way, but actually create mechanisms through which children are divided and excluded. The contributors to this book employ post-structuralist, postcolonial, and feminist theoretical frameworks.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XV, 239 pages)
ISBN:9780230601666
DOI:10.1057/9780230601666