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

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

And the new issue of MCA is full of similar materials and discussion. A
cosmic convergence!
mike

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:28 AM, <cconnery@ithaca.edu> wrote:

> Peter,
> Many thanks!!! I am teaching a seminar next fall called "Reading the Word
> in the World: The Nature of Childhood and Meaning Making". This text will
> be a brilliant addition to the readings.
> Best wishes,
> Cathrene
>
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> >Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 10:23:34 +0000
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> >Subject: [xmca] Children, Childhood and Everyday Life: Children’s
> Perspectives
> >To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
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> >A new book of possible interest:
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> >Children, Childhood and Everyday Life: Children’s Perspectives
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> >Edited by Mariane Hedegaard, University of Copenhagen.
> >Karin Aronsson, Stockholm University.
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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”.
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> >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
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> >Edited by Becky Smerdon, Quill Research Associates, LLC.
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> >Editor(s): Becky Smerdon, Quill Research Associates, LLC. Kathryn M.
> Borman, University of South Florida.
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> >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
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> challenges facing education and educators in a flattened world can best be
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> in which they are expected to pursue learning throughout their lifetimes,
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> Most of all, however, these individuals must be very well prepared during
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> >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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