The Well Of Being: Childhood, Subjectivity, And Education (suny Series, Early Childhood Education: Inquiries And Insights)

"In this wide-ranging work, David Kennedy undertakes a philosophically grounded analysis of the history of childhood, the history of adulthood, and their interrelationship. Using themes and perspectives from the history of childhood, mythology, psychoanalysis, art, literature, philosophy, and education, the author locates the experience of childhood across all stages of the human life cycle, and thereby weighs its transformative potential for human culture. He offers a nuanced approach to child study that raises issues about how adults see children and how children see themselves, which could lead to a qualitatively different system of teacher preparation - a system that views the child as participant rather than object in the structure of social reproduction. This sweeping review of conceptions of and approaches to childhood yields a profound vision of what schooling should be like."--Résumé de l'éditeur The Well of Being......Page 4 Contents......Page 8 Preface......Page 10 Whose Child?......Page 14 Which Adult?......Page 18 The Western Construction of Childhood......Page 21 Theorizing Childhood......Page 26 Adult-Child Dialogue......Page 27 The Child Before Us: Education, Parenting, and the Evolution of Subjectivity......Page 34 The Divine Child......Page 40 The Romantic Child......Page 57 Romanticism, Education, and the New Humanity......Page 69 Adultism and Models of the Self......Page 76 The Evolution of Adulthood/Childhood......Page 88 The Evolution of the Adult-Child Relationship......Page 98 Boundary Work......Page 118 The Ego Dethroned......Page 129 The Emergence of the Intersubject......Page 133 Psychogenic Theory of History and the Present Age......Page 145 The Dialectics of Reason and Desire......Page 149 The Privileged Stranger......Page 155 The Purposes of Schooling......Page 164 The Space of Dialogue......Page 171 The School as Laboratory of the Third Way of Living......Page 178 The Dark and the Light......Page 196 Notes......Page 200 Bibliography......Page 224 B......Page 242 C......Page 243 E......Page 244 J......Page 245 P......Page 246 S......Page 247 Z......Page 248 "In this wide-ranging work, David Kennedy undertakes a philosophically grounded analysis of the history of childhood, the history of adulthood, and their interrelationship. Using themes and perspectives from the history of childhood, mythology, psychoanalysis, art, literature, philosophy, and education, the author locates the experience of childhood across all stages of the human life cycle, and thereby weighs its transformative potential for human culture. He offers a nuanced approach to child study that raises issues about how adults see children and how children see themselves, which could lead to a qualitatively different system of teacher preparation - a system that views the child as participant rather than object in the structure of social reproduction. This sweeping review of conceptions of and approaches to childhood yields a profound vision of what schooling should be like."--Résumé de l'éditeur "In this wide-ranging work, David Kennedy undertakes a philosophically grounded analysis of the history of childhood, the history of adulthood, and their interrelationship. Using themes and perspectives from the history of childhood, mythology, psychoanalysis, art, literature, philosophy, and education, the author locates the experience of childhood across all stages of the human life cycle, and thereby weighs its transformative potential for human culture. He offers a nuanced approach to child study that raises issues about how adults see children and how children see themselves, which could lead to a qualitatively different system of teacher preparation - a system that views the child as participant rather than object in the structure of social reproduction. This sweeping review of conceptions of and approaches to childhood yields a profound vision of what schooling should be like."--Jacket David Kennedy. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 211-228) And Index.