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Rethinking Children's Spaces and Places

Blundell David
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781472581488
Publisert
2016-09-22
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
517 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Blundell David

Om bidragsyterne

David Blundell is Principal Lecturer and Programme Director for Education Studies at London Metropolitan University, UK. He is the author of Education and Constructions of Childhood (Bloomsbury, 2012).

Rethinking Children's Spaces and Places

Blundell David
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk
Blundell David
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk
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[Blundell] writes in a highly engaging style, with a lightness and clarity that makes some very difficult theoretical material highly accessible to a wide audience. For this reason, the book will be an invaluable resource to support undergraduate teaching.

Education 3-13

<i>Rethinking Children’s Spaces and Places</i> deals with our complicated thinking about children and our sophisticated spatial theorizing in palatable and accessible ways. It opens up sometimes impenetrable empirical research in delightful ways, and as the book progresses the arguments build on and fold into each other in an engaging and understandable way. It will make converts to this research field of many students who get the opportunity to use it.

Stuart C. Aitken, Professor and Distinguished Faculty Member, San Diego State University, USA

This book provides an accessible and comprehensive overview of academic work exploring the geographies of childhood and generates significant insights to how we can conceptualise space and place in children’s lives. Blundell pulls together a fascinating range of key studies and guides the reader though them, identifying what is most significant and establishing clear links between them. The result is an assured handling of a diverse range of material which enables the reader to move between the big picture and the detail, to get a clear sense of the underlying debates and theoretical traditions and how they relate to practical attempts to describe and explain childhood. This book will be a valuable resource for anyone studying childhood, education or preparing for teaching. It will also be of interest to anyone studying social sciences as a valuable insight into the contribution of a broadly geographical perspective to understanding the social world.

Lee Jerome, Associate Professor of Education, Middlesex University, UK

Se alle

This book presents thought provoking reflective engagement with contemporary issues related to children's spaces and places. It is underpinned by some complex theory which is related to a range of research to provide a rich understanding and critique of key themes throughout. Much awaited, this debate challenges thinking about the spaces children inhabit in an engaging manner.

Anne Kellock, Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

This book certainly challenges the representation of modern childhood. The author focuses on the vital contribution of children’s spaces and places in the construction of children’s social realities. The content is thought-provoking as it endorses the agency and diversity of children’s lives. This is an excellent resource for readers who wish to challenge ways of living and working with children.

Zeta Brown, Lecturer in Childhood, Families and Communities Studies, University of Wolverhampton, UK

How do we understand children and young people’s lives in ways that do not rely on nostalgic romantic ideals or demonising prejudices? Can the geographical concepts of space, place and spatiality enhance our understanding of childhood and how children experience their lives as social actors? This book draws on a rich and growing academic literature concerned with the spatiality of childhood and the spaces and places in which children live, learn, work, and play. It examines changing ways of seeing space, place and environment and how these can promote rethinking about children’s lives across local and global scales. In common with other texts in the “New Childhoods” series, it asks for a reappraisal of modernity’s assumptions about childhood and for a move towards full participation of children and young people in matters that concern us all. Combining critical discussion of theory with examples drawn from research, Rethinking Children’s Spaces and Places offers readers a language to facilitate rethinking and catalyse active responses to the challenges of 21st-century childhoods.
Les mer
Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Preface Part I: Debates, Dilemmas and Challenges: Childhood and the Place of Children 1. Introduction 2. Modern Childhood as a Symbolic Space and Children as Social Actors Part II: The Issues and Debates Defined: Space, Place and Spatiality 3. Spatiality and Understanding Children’s Lives Part III: Implications for Children’s Lives 4. Scholarisation and Institutional Spaces of Childhood 5. Playing Out: Range, Territories and Children’s Activity Space 6. Constructing Identities and Children in Relational Space 7. ‘Nature’ and Discursive Spaces of Childhood 8. Globalization and Future Spaces of Childhood Bibliography Index
Les mer
[Blundell] writes in a highly engaging style, with a lightness and clarity that makes some very difficult theoretical material highly accessible to a wide audience. For this reason, the book will be an invaluable resource to support undergraduate teaching.
Les mer
Explores children’s lives through those imaginary and material spaces and places of childhood that shape, define and confine their experience.
An introduction to key research and theory on the cultural geography of childhood
Is childhood changing? What effects are new ideas about childhood having on children's lives? How are children's voices and opinions affecting the services they use? Contemporary debates on the nature of childhood, attitudes towards children, the experiences of children and the emergence of a child rights agenda are resulting in a re-examination of theory, practice and research in many fields. New Childhoods offers a re-appraisal of the meaning of childhood - a series of texts that are succinct, accessible and engaging in introducing undergraduates to key areas of Childhood Studies, Education Studies and Sociology, and in disseminating new thinking, research, scholarship and practices. Books in this series will also be of interest to those who are preparing to work with children, such as teachers, early years practitioners, youth workers, health workers and psychologists. Key features include: boxed summaries of research which engage the reader in analysis; case studies to explore each issue in context; tasks to develop critical thinking; and pointers on further reading. Each volume promotes a child rights perspective, and provokes a re-examination of child-adult relationships in the contexts of family, community and state. Insights and experiences across fields such as sociology, philosophy and psychology are combined to encourage an inter-disciplinary approach.
Les mer

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[Blundell] writes in a highly engaging style, with a lightness and clarity that makes some very difficult theoretical material highly accessible to a wide audience. For this reason, the book will be an invaluable resource to support undergraduate teaching.

Education 3-13

<i>Rethinking Children’s Spaces and Places</i> deals with our complicated thinking about children and our sophisticated spatial theorizing in palatable and accessible ways. It opens up sometimes impenetrable empirical research in delightful ways, and as the book progresses the arguments build on and fold into each other in an engaging and understandable way. It will make converts to this research field of many students who get the opportunity to use it.

Stuart C. Aitken, Professor and Distinguished Faculty Member, San Diego State University, USA

This book provides an accessible and comprehensive overview of academic work exploring the geographies of childhood and generates significant insights to how we can conceptualise space and place in children’s lives. Blundell pulls together a fascinating range of key studies and guides the reader though them, identifying what is most significant and establishing clear links between them. The result is an assured handling of a diverse range of material which enables the reader to move between the big picture and the detail, to get a clear sense of the underlying debates and theoretical traditions and how they relate to practical attempts to describe and explain childhood. This book will be a valuable resource for anyone studying childhood, education or preparing for teaching. It will also be of interest to anyone studying social sciences as a valuable insight into the contribution of a broadly geographical perspective to understanding the social world.

Lee Jerome, Associate Professor of Education, Middlesex University, UK

Se alle

This book presents thought provoking reflective engagement with contemporary issues related to children's spaces and places. It is underpinned by some complex theory which is related to a range of research to provide a rich understanding and critique of key themes throughout. Much awaited, this debate challenges thinking about the spaces children inhabit in an engaging manner.

Anne Kellock, Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

This book certainly challenges the representation of modern childhood. The author focuses on the vital contribution of children’s spaces and places in the construction of children’s social realities. The content is thought-provoking as it endorses the agency and diversity of children’s lives. This is an excellent resource for readers who wish to challenge ways of living and working with children.

Zeta Brown, Lecturer in Childhood, Families and Communities Studies, University of Wolverhampton, UK

How do we understand children and young people’s lives in ways that do not rely on nostalgic romantic ideals or demonising prejudices? Can the geographical concepts of space, place and spatiality enhance our understanding of childhood and how children experience their lives as social actors? This book draws on a rich and growing academic literature concerned with the spatiality of childhood and the spaces and places in which children live, learn, work, and play. It examines changing ways of seeing space, place and environment and how these can promote rethinking about children’s lives across local and global scales. In common with other texts in the “New Childhoods” series, it asks for a reappraisal of modernity’s assumptions about childhood and for a move towards full participation of children and young people in matters that concern us all. Combining critical discussion of theory with examples drawn from research, Rethinking Children’s Spaces and Places offers readers a language to facilitate rethinking and catalyse active responses to the challenges of 21st-century childhoods.
Les mer
Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Preface Part I: Debates, Dilemmas and Challenges: Childhood and the Place of Children 1. Introduction 2. Modern Childhood as a Symbolic Space and Children as Social Actors Part II: The Issues and Debates Defined: Space, Place and Spatiality 3. Spatiality and Understanding Children’s Lives Part III: Implications for Children’s Lives 4. Scholarisation and Institutional Spaces of Childhood 5. Playing Out: Range, Territories and Children’s Activity Space 6. Constructing Identities and Children in Relational Space 7. ‘Nature’ and Discursive Spaces of Childhood 8. Globalization and Future Spaces of Childhood Bibliography Index
Les mer
[Blundell] writes in a highly engaging style, with a lightness and clarity that makes some very difficult theoretical material highly accessible to a wide audience. For this reason, the book will be an invaluable resource to support undergraduate teaching.
Les mer
Explores children’s lives through those imaginary and material spaces and places of childhood that shape, define and confine their experience.
An introduction to key research and theory on the cultural geography of childhood
Is childhood changing? What effects are new ideas about childhood having on children's lives? How are children's voices and opinions affecting the services they use? Contemporary debates on the nature of childhood, attitudes towards children, the experiences of children and the emergence of a child rights agenda are resulting in a re-examination of theory, practice and research in many fields. New Childhoods offers a re-appraisal of the meaning of childhood - a series of texts that are succinct, accessible and engaging in introducing undergraduates to key areas of Childhood Studies, Education Studies and Sociology, and in disseminating new thinking, research, scholarship and practices. Books in this series will also be of interest to those who are preparing to work with children, such as teachers, early years practitioners, youth workers, health workers and psychologists. Key features include: boxed summaries of research which engage the reader in analysis; case studies to explore each issue in context; tasks to develop critical thinking; and pointers on further reading. Each volume promotes a child rights perspective, and provokes a re-examination of child-adult relationships in the contexts of family, community and state. Insights and experiences across fields such as sociology, philosophy and psychology are combined to encourage an inter-disciplinary approach.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781472581488
Publisert
2016-09-22
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
517 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Blundell David

Om bidragsyterne

David Blundell is Principal Lecturer and Programme Director for Education Studies at London Metropolitan University, UK. He is the author of Education and Constructions of Childhood (Bloomsbury, 2012).

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