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Childhood and human value : development, separation and separability / Nick Lee.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2005Description: vii, 166 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 033521424X
  • 9780335214242
  • 0335214231
  • 9780335214235
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.23 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ783 .L42 2005
Contents:
Pt. 1. Possession and separation : resistance to children's rights -- 1. Value and possession -- 2. Value and separation -- Pt. 2. Social status and performances of separation -- 3. Basil Bernstein : language, class and separation -- 4. Ulrich Beck : inequality, risk and separation -- Pt. 3. Separability and integration -- 5. Carol Gilligan : gender, moral judgement and separability -- 6. D. W. Winnicott : insides, outsides and separability -- Pt. 4. Competence and separability -- 7. Lev Vygotsky : thinking for oneself -- 8. Norbert Elias : being responsible for oneself -- Pt. 5. Human value and childhood -- 9. Deleuze and Guattari : separability and the composition of human value -- 10. Conclusion : three themes.
Review: "For millennia children have been valued as possessions - valued by their parents as 'my' child and valued by communities and cultures as 'belonging' to them. Recently, a new way of valuing children has emerged - valuing them as people in possession of themselves, as people who have rights. This has led to fears that rights will erode love between parents and children, and separate children from their communities and cultures." "Childhood and Human Value explains why people feel this way and argues that they are mistaken. Adults in modern societies have separation anxieties about children's rights, because they are used to measuring human value against a standard of 'separateness'. The more separate you appear to be from the opinions and control of others, the more valuable you seem. This highly original and accessible book shows us how to resolve the conflict between 'love' and 'rights' in contemporary relationships between adults and children. Examining a number of twentieth-century developmental thinkers, including Vygotsky, Winnicott, Gilligan and Deleuze and Guattari, Nick Lee argues that a more flexible and realistic understanding of the sources of human value is available to us, based on 'separability'." "Childhood and Human Value is key reading for students in a variety of fields including sociology of childhood, family studies, sociology of education, psychology of development, and childhood studies. It is also of interest to professionals who work with children, for example social workers, teachers, and the police."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Possession and separation : resistance to children's rights -- 1. Value and possession -- 2. Value and separation -- Pt. 2. Social status and performances of separation -- 3. Basil Bernstein : language, class and separation -- 4. Ulrich Beck : inequality, risk and separation -- Pt. 3. Separability and integration -- 5. Carol Gilligan : gender, moral judgement and separability -- 6. D. W. Winnicott : insides, outsides and separability -- Pt. 4. Competence and separability -- 7. Lev Vygotsky : thinking for oneself -- 8. Norbert Elias : being responsible for oneself -- Pt. 5. Human value and childhood -- 9. Deleuze and Guattari : separability and the composition of human value -- 10. Conclusion : three themes.

"For millennia children have been valued as possessions - valued by their parents as 'my' child and valued by communities and cultures as 'belonging' to them. Recently, a new way of valuing children has emerged - valuing them as people in possession of themselves, as people who have rights. This has led to fears that rights will erode love between parents and children, and separate children from their communities and cultures." "Childhood and Human Value explains why people feel this way and argues that they are mistaken. Adults in modern societies have separation anxieties about children's rights, because they are used to measuring human value against a standard of 'separateness'. The more separate you appear to be from the opinions and control of others, the more valuable you seem. This highly original and accessible book shows us how to resolve the conflict between 'love' and 'rights' in contemporary relationships between adults and children. Examining a number of twentieth-century developmental thinkers, including Vygotsky, Winnicott, Gilligan and Deleuze and Guattari, Nick Lee argues that a more flexible and realistic understanding of the sources of human value is available to us, based on 'separability'." "Childhood and Human Value is key reading for students in a variety of fields including sociology of childhood, family studies, sociology of education, psychology of development, and childhood studies. It is also of interest to professionals who work with children, for example social workers, teachers, and the police."--BOOK JACKET.

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