EAN: 9781433104510

CHILDHOODS GEBUNDEN

For the past 20 years  a range of scholars  educators  and cultural workers have examined
dominant discourses of «childhood» using critical  feminist  and other postmodern perspectives.
Located in a variety of disciplines  these poststructural  deconstructive  and even
postcolonial critiques have challenged everything from notions of the universal child  to adult
child dualisms  to deterministic developmental theory. The purpose of this volume is to
acknowledge the profound contributions of that large body of literature  while demonstrating
the ways that critical analyses can be used to generate avenues actions that increase
possibilities for social justice for those who are younger while  at the same time  avoiding
determinism. In this time of globalization  hyper-capitalism  and discourses that would control
and disqualify through constructions like accountability  we believe that projects such as this
are of utmost importance. The volume is divided into four major sectionsto reflect the
multiplicity of human voices and perspectives (section I)  contemporary circumstances and
dominant discourses within which we all attempt to function (sections II and III)  and the
generation of new possibilities for constructing relationships together (section IV). Finally 
a voice from the «heart» within a «reconceptualist» social science agenda for early childhood
studies is presented.

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