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Children Framing Childhoods: Working-Class Kids' Visions of Care


Children Framing Childhoods: Working-Class Kids' Visions of Care

Hardback by Luttrell, Wendy (The Graduate Centre, City University of New York)

Children Framing Childhoods: Working-Class Kids' Visions of Care

£79.99

ISBN:
9781447352853
Publication Date:
12 Feb 2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bristol University Press
Imprint:
Policy Press
Pages:
340 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 13 - 15 May 2024
Children Framing Childhoods: Working-Class Kids' Visions of Care

Description

Urban educational research, practice, and policy is preoccupied with problems, brokenness, stigma, and blame. As a result, too many people are unable to recognize the capacities and desires of children and youth growing up in working-class communities. This book offers an alternative angle of vision-animated by young people's own photographs, videos, and perspectives over time. It shows how a racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse community of young people in Worcester, MA used cameras at different ages (10, 12, 16 and 18) to capture and value the centrality of care in their lives, homes, and classrooms. Luttrell's immersive, creative, and layered analysis of the young people's images and narratives boldly refutes biased assumptions about working-class childhoods and re-envisions schools as inclusive, imaginative, and care-ful spaces. With an accompanying website featuring additional digital resources (childrenframingchildhoods.com), this book challenges us to see differently and, thus, set our sights on a better future.

Contents

Prelude: Worcester, Massachusetts. Fall, 2003 Digital Interlude #1: Dwelling in School 1. Ways of Seeing Diverse Working-Class Children and Childhoods 2. The Everyday Politics of Belonging/s 3. Motherhood, Childhood, and Love Labor in Family Choreographies of Care Digital Interlude #2: Feeding the Family 4. School Choreographies of Care: Being Seen, Being Safe, and Being Believed Digital Interlude #3: Nice...? 5. That's (Not) Me Now: Development, Identity, and Being in Time Digital Interlude #4: Being in Time 6. The Freedom to Care Postlude: Notes on Reflexive Methods: Past, Present, and Future Digital Interlude #5: Collaborative Seeing

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