Schools as Protection? Reinventing Education in Contexts of Adversity /

In 1900 the Swedish social theorist Ellen Key launched the idea of a Century of the Child. Recent media reports, from shooting and racial violence in the US to the latest news from ISIS-dominated areas provide a darker vision: it is certainly not a time for children; it is a time during which childr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nordtveit, Bjorn H. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Subjects:
Educational sociology.
Education and state.
Early childhood education.
Sociology of Education.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Early Childhood Education.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: The Century of the Child
  • Chapter 2: Aims of education
  • Chapter 3: Discourses of childhood
  • Discourse as a fixation of meaning
  • Chapter 4: Identification and impact of abuse
  • Chapter 5: Child labor
  • Chapter 6: Child marriage
  •  Chapter 7: Contexts of adversity
  • Chapter 8: "Engineering" responses
  •  Chapter 9: Hidden and planned curricula
  • Chapter 10: Teaching in adversity
  • Conclusion: Reconstructing education as protection
  • Teacher training and curriculum reform
  • Complexity, education, and development
  • Final argument and recommendations
  • Index.

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