[xmca] Children, Childhood and Everyday Life: Children’s Perspectives

[Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu>]

A new book of possible interest:

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Subject: Two New Education Titles from IAP

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May 30th 2012 4:12pm


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Children, Childhood and Everyday Life: Children’s Perspectives

Edited by Mariane Hedegaard, University of Copenhagen.
Karin Aronsson, Stockholm University.
Charlotte Højholt, Roskilde University.
Oddbjørg Skjær Ulvik, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences.

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Children live their lives across various social settings, including homes, kindergartens, schools and different kinds of institutions. The different contributions of this book focus on children’s perspectives, and on how children learn and develop through taking part in activities in social communities such as families, peer groups, classrooms, and day care institutions. This collection illustrate different ways of dealing with varying social contexts, and the research presented involves questions about children’s world-making, anchored in children’s daily lives. The studies are inspired by Vygotsky’s theory of development (1998), as well as childhood sociology. One of the aims has been to problematice time, change, continuity, developmental trajectories, and transitions in order to identify novel ways of discussing different trajectories through childhood and youth, that is ”development”.

CONTENTS: Introduction, Mariane Hedegaard, Karin Aronsson, Charlotte Højholt and Oddbjørg Skjær Ulvik. SECTION I: DEVELOPMENT, CHANGE, AND CHILDREN’S PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL LIFE. Being a Child, Coming of Age: Exploring Processes of Growing Up, Liv Mette Gulbrandsen. “Being Oneself” and “Being of Use”: On Children’s Appropriation of Values, Ruth E. Toverud. “Remaining the Same” and Children’s Experience of Development, Pernille Hviid. SECTION II: FAMILY LIFE PRACTICES AS AN ARENA FOR NEGOTIATIONS AND FORMAL LEARNING. Children’s Creative Modeling of Conflict Resolutions in Everyday Life as Central in their Learning and Development in Families, Mariane Hedegaard. Family Life Activities and Everyday Time Politics, Karin Aronsson. Money Talks: Children’s Consumption and Becoming in the Family, Lucas Gottzén. Foster Parenting as Cultural Practices: Foster Parents’ Developmental Goals and Strategies for Their Foster Children, Oddbjørg Skjær Ulvik. Family Problems: Exploring Dilemmas and Complexities of Organizing Everyday Family Life, Dorte Kousholt. SECTION III: SCHOOLS AS SOCIAL ARENAS. A Paradox of Inclusion: Administrative Procedures and Children’s Perspectives on Difficulties in School, Maja Røn Larsen. Using the Child Perspective to Support Children with Severe Impairments in Becoming Active Subjects, Louise Bøttcher. Social Identities in Transition: Contrasting Strategies of Two Boys When Changing School, Ditte Winther-Lindqvist. Communities of Children and Learning in School: Children’s Perspectives, Charlotte Højholt.

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Pressing Forward: Increasing and Expanding Rigor and Relevance in America’s High Schools

Edited by Becky Smerdon, Quill Research Associates, LLC.
Kathryn M. Borman, University of South Florida.

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A volume in the series: Research on High School and Beyond<http://infoagepub.com/series/Research-on-High-School-and-Beyond>
Editor(s): Becky Smerdon, Quill Research Associates, LLC. Kathryn M. Borman, University of South Florida.

Pessing Forward: Increasing and Expanding Rigor and Relevance in America’s High Schools is organized to place secondary education, specifically the goals of preparing young adults to be college and career ready, in contemporary perspective, emphasizing the changing global economy and trends in policy and practice. High school students must be equipped with tools they need during and beyond high school for mapping their futures in a global and flat world that demands workers prepared to take up 21st century careers. Following Thomas Freidman and other writers on the topic, this book takes as its core premise that the world has been irrevocably altered by technology and that technology takes a prominent role in shaping post-secondary education and career opportunities. The challenges facing education and educators in a flattened world can best be addressed by creating opportunities for students who are ready for a world in which they are expected to pursue learning throughout their lifetimes, understand and use technology, engage in active civic lives, function well in ethnically diverse workplace settings, and be willing to take risks. Most of all, however, these individuals must be very well prepared during high school by taking advanced level mathematics, science and other challenging coursework, while at the same time actively engaging in collaborative, creative endeavors that prepare them to continuously reinvent themselves to stay ahead of automation and outsourcing.

The book will be a unique and useful contribution to the education reform and policy literature as it examines secondary education at an historical moment—the convergence of significant education spending and focus on high school reform. Developed from diverse authors’ research programs on secondary education, the chapters in this volume highlight both changing and steadfast features of high schools, questioning if attempts to foster change—whether tinkering around the edges or inventing a new way—adequatly adress shortcomings in equity and excellence found in American high schools.

CONTENTS: Preface. 1 Pathways in America’s High Schools, Becky Smerdon, Aimee Evan, Kathryn Borman, and Arland Nguema. 2 State Policies to Increase Rigor and Relevance in High Schools, Jennifer Dounay Zinth. 3 Educational Policy in Practice: Implementing the “AP for All” Movement in Two Florida High Schools, Ashley Spalding, Aimee Eden, and Rebekah Heppner. 4 Adding “College-Ready” Coursework to a “Career-Ready” Pathway: Implications for Dropping Out of High School, Ben Dalton and Robert Bozick. 5 CTE Schools and Labor Market Outcomes in Young Adulthood: A Case Study in a Large Urban School District, Ruth Curran Neild and Vaughan Byrnes. 6 Dual Enrollment: A Bridge Between High School and College, Kellie Kim and Becky Smerdon. 7 Student Experiences in Early College Schools, Susan Cole, Helen Duffy, Kaeli Keating, and Andrea Berger. 8 Virtual High Schools: Forging Another Pathway with Web-Based Schooling, Kellie Kim. 9 From Sticks to Carrots to Getting it Done: How Converging Visions and Common Action are Generating New Standards of Practice for American High Schools, Kristine Kilanski, Becky Smerdon, Nettie Legters, and Aimee Evan. 10 Preparing Students for Life after High School, Becky Smerdon, Kathryn Borman, and Aimee Evan.

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