1st Edition
Children And Social Competence Arenas Of Action
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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A text which addresses the relationship between childhood, competence and the social arenas of action in which children live their lives. Taking issue with the view that children are merely apprentice adults, the contributors develop a picture of children as competent, sophisticated social agents, focusing on the contexts which both enable and constrain that competence.
Situating children's social competency, Ian Huchby and Jo Moran-Ellis. Part 1 Competence and family structures: children and the family order, Leena Alanen; runaway street-children in Nepal, Rachel Baker; protest-despair- detachment, Helen Barratt. Part 2 Context for discourse competence: children's neo-rhetorical participation in peer interactions, Robert Sanders and Kurt Freeman; social and cognitive competencies in learning, Hilary Gardner; children's participation in the discourse of children's television, Joanna Thornborrow. Part 3 Competence and institutional knowledge: restoring social order in the preschool classroom, Susan Danby and Carolyn Baker; difference and similarity, Pia Haudrup Christensen; being a child in care, Gerald de Montigny; the case of the silent child, David Silverman, Carolyn Baker and Jane Keogh.
Biography
Ian Hutchby, Jo Moran-Ellis
