There are a number of aspects of this paper which I particularly appreciate: the effort to introduce notions of the good life and 'a good development' and other ethical considerations into the scientific study, and further including questioning of the power relations, interests and values entailed in the formation of views about child development. These notions create an internal tension within the idea of development which I think a purely descriptive approach can capture.
I also appreciated the intention to include "children's projects, their intentions, their everyday practices, and their interacitons with other persons ..." I think this is necessary if we are to have a theory of development which is really able to deal with *human beings* rather than sponges.
I think the tripartite setting: individual, the various particular institutions, and the state, is good. My only qualification is that these days "state" is more or less to be subsumed under "particular institutions" and can no longer be deemed as "universal".
Finally, I would like to see an explicit recognition that crises arise in the development of the child which do not arise from conflicts between institutions, such as parental-culture and school-culture. A good social situation of development will generate crises for the child which can only be overcome by development, otherwise there would be no development at all. That said, I think it is a promising line of enquiry to look at the kind of development children have to make when confronted with the kind of institutional conflict the young Danish-TUrkish boy confronted.
Thank you very much Mariane. Andy Mike Cole wrote:
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