
- 240 pages
- English
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Rethinking Children's Spaces and Places
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- FC
- Half title
- Also Available in the New Childhoods series:
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction to the New Childhood Series
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 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 Childrenās Lives
- Part III Implications for Childrenās Lives
- 4 Scholarization and Institutional Spaces of Childhood
- 5 Playing Out: Range, Territories and Childrenās Activity Space
- 6 Constructing Identities and Children in Relational Space
- 7 āNatureā and Discursive Spaces of Childhood
- 8 Globalization and Future Spaces of Childhood
- Bibliography
- Index