The Children in Our Lives: Knowing and Teaching Them - Rilegato

Adan, Jane

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0791408116 ISBN 13: 9780791408117

Casa editrice: State Univ of New York Pr, 1991

Riassunto

"I was born at midnight. That means I can see ghosts when they want to be invisible," writes fourth-grader David, demonstrating a child's capacity for making sense of personal experience. The Children in Our Lives explores this capacity, as well as how adult misperceptions of children's experiences affect those children. It invites dialogue between teachers, parents, other caregivers, and the general public who value children for their own sakes.

Adan looks for disparities between a child's experience and the adult's interpretation of that experience. In questioning middle-class nurturance, she focuses on connections between experience and interpretation based on dominant, traditional, or mainstream values. She argues that force of habit as well as a preoccupation with public image predisposes adults to embrace the abstractions that distort perception. Consequently, children are impaired―as adults are―in their ability to generate communities that are grounded in a creative concern for all human beings.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: State Univ of New York Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0791408116
• ISBN 13: 9780791408117
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 313
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile