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Reconceptualising agency and childhood : new perspectives in childhood studies (electronic book) / edited by Florian Esser, Meike S. Baader, Tanja Betz and Beatrice Hungerland

Contributor(s): Series: Routledge research in education ; 161Publication details: London: Routledge, 2016ISBN:
  • 9781315722245
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.23/REC
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Contents:
SECTION ONE: Theoretical perspectives -- Re-aligning children's agency and re-socialising children in childhood studies / David Oswell -- Children as participants in practices: The challenges of practice theories to an actor-centered sociiology of childhood / Sabine Bollig and Helga Kelle -- Neither "thick" nor "thin": Reconceptualising agency and childhood relationally / Florian Esser -- Children's agency: Contributions from feminist and ethic of care theories to sociology of childhood / Anne Wihstutz -- Meanings of children's agency: When and where does agency begin and end? / Priscilla Alderson and Tamaki Yoshida -- Extending agency: The merit of relational approaches for childhood studies / Eberhard Raithelshuber.
SECTION TWO: Children as actors in research -- Troubling children's voices in research / Spyros Spyrou -- Playing with socially constructed identity positions: Accessing and reconstructing children's perspectives and positions through ethnographic fieldwork and creative workshops / Hanne Warming.
SECTION THREE: Agency in historical perspective -- Tracing and contextualising childhood agency and generational order from historical and systematic perspectives / Meike S. Baadar -- Martha Muchow's research on children's life space: A classic study on childhoon in the light of the present / Gunter Mey -- "Children need boundaries": Concepts of children's agency in German parents' guidebooks since 1950 / Beatrice Hungerland.
SECTION FOUR: Transnational and majority world perspectives of agency -- Exploring children's agency across majority and minority world contexts / Samantha Punch -- Do the "Mollycoddled" act? Children, agency and disciplinary entanglements in India / Hia Sen -- Context matters? On non-working children's citizenship in South Indian children's rights initiatives as a practice / Laura B. Kayser.
SECTION FIVE: Agency in institutions of childhood -- Agency: Educators' imaginations as triggered by photographs of pre-school children / Claudia Dreke -- Agency and the conceptionalisation of minors in child protection case files / Timo Ackermann and Pierrine Robin -- Children as social actors and addresses? Reflections on the constitution of actors and (student) subjects in elementary school peer cultures / Torsten Eckermann and Friederike Heinzel -- Accounting for children's agency in research on educational inequality: The influence of children's own practices on their academic habitus in elementary school / Frederick De Moll and Tania Betz -- Conclusion: Potentials of a reconceptualised concept of agency / Florian Esser, Meike S. Baader, Tania Betz and Beatrice Hungerland.
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SECTION ONE: Theoretical perspectives -- Re-aligning children's agency and re-socialising children in childhood studies / David Oswell -- Children as participants in practices: The challenges of practice theories to an actor-centered sociiology of childhood / Sabine Bollig and Helga Kelle -- Neither "thick" nor "thin": Reconceptualising agency and childhood relationally / Florian Esser -- Children's agency: Contributions from feminist and ethic of care theories to sociology of childhood / Anne Wihstutz -- Meanings of children's agency: When and where does agency begin and end? / Priscilla Alderson and Tamaki Yoshida -- Extending agency: The merit of relational approaches for childhood studies / Eberhard Raithelshuber.

SECTION TWO: Children as actors in research -- Troubling children's voices in research / Spyros Spyrou -- Playing with socially constructed identity positions: Accessing and reconstructing children's perspectives and positions through ethnographic fieldwork and creative workshops / Hanne Warming.

SECTION THREE: Agency in historical perspective -- Tracing and contextualising childhood agency and generational order from historical and systematic perspectives / Meike S. Baadar -- Martha Muchow's research on children's life space: A classic study on childhoon in the light of the present / Gunter Mey -- "Children need boundaries": Concepts of children's agency in German parents' guidebooks since 1950 / Beatrice Hungerland.

SECTION FOUR: Transnational and majority world perspectives of agency -- Exploring children's agency across majority and minority world contexts / Samantha Punch -- Do the "Mollycoddled" act? Children, agency and disciplinary entanglements in India / Hia Sen -- Context matters? On non-working children's citizenship in South Indian children's rights initiatives as a practice / Laura B. Kayser.

SECTION FIVE: Agency in institutions of childhood -- Agency: Educators' imaginations as triggered by photographs of pre-school children / Claudia Dreke -- Agency and the conceptionalisation of minors in child protection case files / Timo Ackermann and Pierrine Robin -- Children as social actors and addresses? Reflections on the constitution of actors and (student) subjects in elementary school peer cultures / Torsten Eckermann and Friederike Heinzel -- Accounting for children's agency in research on educational inequality: The influence of children's own practices on their academic habitus in elementary school / Frederick De Moll and Tania Betz -- Conclusion: Potentials of a reconceptualised concept of agency / Florian Esser, Meike S. Baader, Tania Betz and Beatrice Hungerland.