Tom Popkewitz book Struggleing for the Soul, while not explicitly focused
on "child development" does serve as a way to think about it. Its primary
focus is the urban/rural doublet, but does explore a variety of dicourses
including "development" that serve as a way to differentiate children.
"Foucault's Challenge Discourse, Knowledge, and Power in Education" also
has several chapters that would be on the line of "development". Both
point more towards a viewpoint of "development" being a social construction
of sorts which attempt to culturally produce what is seen as "normal".
While I maybe would not go so far as to argue the books are primarily
concerned with ethnocentrism, development as a form of ethnocentism was
definately a reading I took from both books.
Struggling for the Soul
Thomas Popkewitz
Teachers College Press
(1998) 0-8077-3728-3
Foucault's Challenge Discourse, Knowledge, and Power in Education
Thomas Popkewitz and Maria Brennan
Teacher's College Press
(1998) 0-8077-3676-7
Nate
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From: Mary Bryson <brys who-is-at unixg.ubc.ca>
To: <xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 1999 2:08 PM
Subject: query
> Hi folks:
>
> I have volunteered (?) to rewrite our graduate "child development" course
> with a colleague. I have added areas like sociocultural/sociohistorical
> models, activity theory, ecological and lifespan perspectives, feminist
> work like Walkerdine etc... but as this is not REALLY my area, I wonder
if
> someone out there could help.
> Maybe you have a recent syllabus from your own teaching of a child
> development type grad course?
> Maybe you know of a great website where I can catch up on what has been
> happening in the development field/s
> Maybe you know of a review article documenting the interdisciplinary
> character of "child development" today?
> Maybe you can point me in the direction of work that addresses some
version
> of "child development" theories from the perspective of someone concerned
> with the explicit ethnocentrism blah blah blah?
>
> thanks!
>
> Mary
>
> Mary Bryson, Associate Professor and UBC Scholar 98/99,
> Faculty of Education, UBC
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