O'Loughlin, Michael.

The subject of childhood / Michael O'Loughlin. - xiv, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Rethinking childhood ; v. 38 . - Rethinking childhood ; v. 38. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index.

Introduction / by Richard Johnson -- Troubling childhood -- In search of the lost language of childhood -- The curious subject of the child -- The development of subjectivity in young children : theoretical and pedagogical considerations -- On knowing and desiring children : the significance of the unknown known -- On losses that are not easily mourned -- Strangers to ourselves : on the displacement, loss, and "homelessness" of migrant experiences -- Helping poor and working-class children make something of themselves : the contradictions and possibilities of teaching for equity and democracy -- Recreating the social link between children and their histories : the power of story as a decolonizing strategy -- Seven principles underlying socially just and ethnically inclusive teacher preparation -- The child as subject of literacy -- Facing myself : the struggle for authentic pedagogy.

1433101203 9781433101205 1433103478 9781433103476

2008014444


Child psychology
Educational psychology
Child development.
Child rearing.

BF721 / .O56 2009

155.4