Children, home, and school : regulation, autonomy, or connection? / edited by Rosalind Edwards.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edwards, Rosalind.

Series:

Future of childhood series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home and school--Cross-cultural studies.

Home and school.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge/Falmer, 2002.

Contents:

Introduction: conceptualising relationships between home and school in children's lives / Rosalind Edwards 1

1 Students' rights in British schools: trust, autonomy, connection and regulation / Priscilla Alderson 24

2 Educational reform in New Zealand: where were the children? / Lise Bird 41

3 School's Out? Out of school clubs at the boundary of home and school / Fiona Smith, John Barker 57

4 Portrait of Callum: the disabling of a childhood? / Mairian Corker, John Davis 75

5 Adults as resources and adults as burdens: the strategies of children in the age of school-home collaboration / Kjersti Ericsson, Guri Larsen 92

6 Home and school constraints in children's experience of socialisation in Geneva / Cleopatra Montandon 106

7 Minding the gap: children and young people negotiating relations between home and school / Pam Alldred, Miriam David, Rosalind Edwards 121

8 Priming events, autonomy and agency in low-income African-American children's transition from home to school / William A. Corsaro, Katherine Brown Rosier 138

9 Negotiating boundaries: tensions within home and school life for refugee children / Mano Candappa, Itohan Egharevba 155

10 Young people between home and school / Elisabeth Backe-Hansen 172

Afterword: similarities and differences / Rosalind Edwards 188.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415250439

0415250447

OCLC:

47272180