The subject of childhood
By: Michael O'Loughlin.
Series: Rethinking childhood -- v. 38
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781433101205; 9781433103476
Subjects: Child psychology; Educational psychology; Child development; Child rearing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Richard Johnson; title: The language we use in speaking about children; title: The effects of early emotional losses on children's lives; title: The development of subjectivity in young children : theoretical and pedagogical considerations; title: Troubling shame, loss and phantasy in childhood; title: Constructing a livable subjectivity with young children; title: On knowing and desiring children : reflections on the unthought known; title: Strangers to ourselves : the decolonizing potential of the displacement, loss, and 'homelessness' of migrant experiences; title: Helping poor and working-class children make something of themselves : the contradictions and possibilities of teaching for equity and democracy; title: Thinking pedagogically about children; title: Recreating the social link between children and their histories : revisiting ghosts in the nursery and exploring the power of story as a decolonizing strategy; title: The child as subject of literacy : a case study; title: Facing myself : the struggle for authentic pedagogy; title: Confessions of a disappointed bloody ballet dancer : the courage to be idiomatic in our work with children.