"Unruly" Children : Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village / Jing Xu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Xu, Jing, 1983- author.

Series:

New departures in anthropology

New Departures in Anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child psychology.

Children--Research.

Children.

Children--Taiwan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 258 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"How do we become moral persons? What about children's active learning in contrast to parenting? What can children teach us about knowledge-making more broadly? Answer these questions by delving into the groundbreaking ethnographic fieldwork conducted by anthropologists Arthur and Margery Wolf in a martial law era Taiwanese village (1958-60), marking the first-ever study of ethnic Han children. Jing Xu skillfully reinterprets the Wolfs' extensive fieldnotes, employing a unique blend of humanistic interpretation, natural language processing, and machine-learning techniques. Through a lens of social cognition, this book unravels the complexities of children's moral growth, exposing instances of disobedience, negotiation, and peer dynamics. Writing through and about fieldnotes, the author connects the two themes, learning morality and making ethnography, in light of social cognition, and invites all of us to take children seriously. This book is ideal for graduate and undergraduate students of anthropology and educational studies"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction: learning morality in a Taiwan village

Fieldwork beyond fieldwork: reconstructing an ethnography of children through historical fieldnotes

Crime and punishment: parenting and the disobedient child

Playful creatures: learning morality in peer play

Gendered morality: fierce girls and naughty boys

Care and rivalry: an untold tale of a sibling dyad

Epilogue: taking children seriously

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Oct 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009416245

1009416243

9781009416290

1009416294

9781009416269

100941626X