Schooling the Child

This book aims to explore these perennial and complex questions by looking at the way in which society constructs and understands childhood.
What is a child? How is the concept of childhood defined? This text aims to explore these perennial and complex questions by looking at the way in which society constructs and understands childhood. The authors focus in particular on the school. This text aims to redefine the ways in which common sense and professional understandings about children amd childhood reconstruct, reaccomplish and sustain childhood as an experience for young people.