Part Part I Considering childhood -- chapter 1 Framing childhood -- chapter 2 Rethinking children and childhood -- chapter 3 Rethinking schooling and classrooms -- chapter 4 Reconsidering social action and social structure -- part Part II Respecifying the institutional child -- chapter 5 The schoolchild -- chapter 6 The classroom child -- chapter 7 The child of the group -- chapter Conclusion to Part II -- part Part III Re-producing the Schoolchild -- chapter 8 The materials of education -- chapter 9 Teaching the category into being -- chapter 10 The students' writing -- chapter Conclusion to Part III -- part Part IV Revisiting the production of the Child -- chapter 11 The public specification of the Child.
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What is a child?How is the concept of childhood defined?This book aims to explore these perennial and complex questions by looking at the way in which society constructs and understands childhood. The authors focus in particular on the school, a key location within which social and cultural notions of childhood are defined and performed.The book is divided into three major parts:Part 1 frames the accepted notions of childhood and schooling, and introduces ethnomethodological analysis as a tool to rethink current versions of the child.Part 2.