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.