Childhood in a global perspective / Karen Wells.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge : Polity Press, 2021Edition: 3rd editionDescription: 280 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781509541713 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Children | Child development | Children -- Social conditions | Society | SocietyDDC classification: 305.2'3 Summary: This popular book provides a compelling introduction to thinking about childhood in rigorous and critical ways. Karen Wells offers a unique global perspective on children's lives, showing how the notion of childhood varies widely and is continuously being radically re-shaped. Taking children seriously as active participants in society, the book explores key social issues such as how children are constituted as raced, classed and gendered subjects; how school and work operate as sites for the governing of childhood; and how children both shape and are shaped by politics, culture and the economy.
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Previous edition: 2015.
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This popular book provides a compelling introduction to thinking about childhood in rigorous and critical ways. Karen Wells offers a unique global perspective on children's lives, showing how the notion of childhood varies widely and is continuously being radically re-shaped. Taking children seriously as active participants in society, the book explores key social issues such as how children are constituted as raced, classed and gendered subjects; how school and work operate as sites for the governing of childhood; and how children both shape and are shaped by politics, culture and the economy.
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