The well of being : childhood, subjectivity, and education / David Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, David, 1943-

Series:

SUNY series, early childhood education.

SUNY series, early childhood education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children.

Children and adults.

Education.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offers a sweeping review of conceptions of and approaches to childhood.

Contents:

Intro

The Well of Being

Contents

Preface

1. Questioning Childhood

Whose Child?

Which Adult?

The Western Construction of Childhood

Theorizing Childhood

Adult-Child Dialogue

The Child Before Us: Education, Parenting, and the Evolution of Subjectivity

2. The Primordial Child

The Divine Child

The Romantic Child

Romanticism, Education, and the New Humanity

3. The Invention of Adulthood

Adultism and Models of the Self

The Evolution of Adulthood/Childhood

The Evolution of the Adult-Child Relationship

4. Childhood and the Intersubject

Boundary Work

The Ego Dethroned

The Emergence of the Intersubject

Psychogenic Theory of History and the Present Age

The Dialectics of Reason and Desire

The Privileged Stranger

5. Reimagining School

The Purposes of Schooling

The Space of Dialogue

The School as Laboratory of the Third Way of Living

The Dark and the Light

Notes

Bibliography

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

V

W

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-228) and index.

ISBN:

9780791481462

0791481468

9781429411899

1429411899

OCLC:

74813060