Perspectives on School at Seven Years Old

John Newson (Curatore)

Elizabeth Newson (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014

This volume looks at the social and intellectual forces which the child encounters in class-room and playground from the parent’s point of view. School and home are seen as the separate yet overlapping worlds of childhood – for some children more uncompromisingly separated than for others. In the social development of the child, school functions as a link between the kinds of demands (and immunities) which are characteristic of family life, and those which the child will discover in the wider society of adulthood. The authors provide a meeting-point for developmental psychology, sociology and education, to the illumination of all three. There is a concern with the daily life of ‘ordinary’children in ‘ordinary’ families. School reluctance – rather than the more clinical school phobia or truancy – is delicately probed. The back-up that parents provide at home, directly or indirectly, is objectively evaluated, yet with empathy for parents’ and teachers’ anxieties about their roles.

• Curatore: John Newson, Elizabeth Newson
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Library Editions: Education
• Anno: 2014
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 216 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 400 gr.
• EAN: 9780415750424

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