Research Catalog

Title

Schooling the child : the making of students in classrooms / Helena Austin, Bronwyn Dwyer, and Peter Freebody.

Author

Austin, Helena, 1963-

Publication

London ; New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dwyer, Bronwyn.
• Freebody, Peter.

Description

vi, 209 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

What is a child? How is the concept of childhood defined? This text aims to explore these perennial and complex questions by looking at the way in which society constructs and understands childhood. The authors focus in particular on the school.

Series Statement

RoutledgeFalmer research

Uniform Title

RoutledgeFalmer research

Subject

• Child development > Social aspects
• Educational sociology
• Educational psychology
• Psychology, Educational
• 77.55 child, pre-school child (psychology)
• 81.23 school life
• Schulkind
• Jeugdjaren
• Schoolkinderen

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-203) and index.

Contents

Part I. Considering Childhood: 1. Framing childhood; 2. Rethinking children and childhood; 3. Rethinking schooling and classrooms; 4. Reconsidering social action and social structure -- Part II. Respecifying the Institutional Child: 5. The schoolchild; 6. The classroom child: variations on a theme; 7. The child of the group -- Part III. Re-producing the Schoolchild: 8. The materials of education; 9. Teaching the category into being; 10. The students' writing -- Part IV. Revising the Production of the Child: 11. The public specification of the child -- Appendix. Analytic methods.

ISBN

• 0415263255
• 9780415263252
• 0415263263
• 9780415263269
• 9780203994993
• 020399499X

LCCN

2002068300

OCLC

• ocm50291215
• 50291215
• SCSB-8903176

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library