Conceptualising Child-Adult Relationships (Future of Childhood (Paperback))

Conceptualising Child-Adult Relations focuses on how children conceptualise and experience child-adult relations. The authors explore the idea of generation as a key to understanding children's agency in intersection with social worlds which are largely organised and ordered by adults. The authors explore two interconnected themes: how children define the division of labour between children and adults, and how far children regard themselves as constituting a seperate group. This book is ground-breaking in its focus on the variety and commonality in children's lives and views across a broad range of contexts. It provides innovative theoretical approaches to the growing study of childhood by homing in on intergenerational relations as a main concept, and draws attention to links across the main sites of children's lives such as the home, neighbourhood and school. Moreover, for policy related issues, this book provides food for thought about the social conditions and status of childhood, and the factors structuring it. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of illustrations......Page 8 Notes on contributors......Page 9 Preface......Page 12 Acknowledgements......Page 14 Introduction......Page 16 Explorations in generational analysis......Page 26 Negotiating autonomy: childhoods in rural Bolivia......Page 38 Dependent, independent and interdependent relations: children as members of the family household in West Berlin......Page 52 The negotiation of influence: children's experience of parental education practices in Geneva......Page 69 What are schools for? The temporal experience of children's learning in Northern England......Page 85 Culture and childhood in pastoralist communities: the example of Outer Mongolia......Page 101 Some Sydney children define abuse: implications for agency in childhood......Page 114 Understanding childhoods: a London study......Page 129 Childhood as a generational condition: children's daily lives in a central Finland town......Page 144 Bibliography......Page 159 Index......Page 169 Brings Together Case Studies From A Wide Range Of Societies With Varying Social Expectations In Order To Examine How Childhood Differs From Adulthood. Edited By Leena Alanen And Berry Mayall. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [144]-153) And Index.