Childhood and Nation explores the historical and manifold current relations between nation and childhood. Millei and Imre bring together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address many pressing questions of today. The analytical incisions created by nation and childhood bring answers to the following questions: How do national agendas related to economic, social and pol…
Chapter 1 Introduction: Why it is important to answer back -- Chapter 2 Daring to disagree about school 'discipline': An Australian case study of a media-led backlash -- Chapter 3 Understanding and challenging dominant discourses about student behaviour at school -- Chapter 4 Promoting pedagogies of engagement in secondary schools: Possibilities for pedagogical reform -- Chapter 5 Goodbye Mr. C…
A common story of teachers from the Global South portrays them as deficient, unreliable and unprofessional. However, this book uses an innovative Capability Approach/Critical Realist lens to reveal the causal links between teachers' constrained capabilities and their 'criticised' behaviours. Transforming Teacher Quality in the Global South first applies this analytical lens to a Tanzanian case …
Chapter 1 Framing: Young Children Relating and Playing -- Chapter 2 Research Methods: Observing Experience in Two projects (Parts 2 and 3) -- Chapter 3 The Intersubjective in-between-ness in Young Children's Playfulness -- Chapter 4 Words Connecting Children Playfully Together -- Chapter 5 Becoming Selves in Play -- Chapter 6 Imagining while Playing -- Chapter 7 Feelings Felt in Bodies -- Chapt…
Youth Work, Early Education, and Psychology re-examines the set of relations generally referred to as working with children and youth. It presents a series of propositions that highlight politicized strategies to working with young people under current conditions of late liberal capitalism.
This book presents a coherent framework for the balanced development of emotions and cognition throughout the lifespan. It synthesizes rich sources across psychology and neuroscience to show that the brain is hard-wired for basic emotions as well as reasoning, and that these structures mature as individuals learn social rules in interactions with others and progress through complex relationship…
Introduction -- On Developing Students' Mathematical Intelligence -- Presentations into Investigations -- Habits of the Mind: The Heart of the Mathematics Curriculum -- Lessons from a Third-Grade Mathematics Classroom -- Sharing the Language of Productive Inquiry -- Collaborative Mathematics Investigations -- On Providing a Supportive Mathematics Classroom -- Including Students' Goals -- Gradin…
This volume introduces the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to the general field of education and traces her theories of mental life as an emotional situation, through to problems of self/other relations in our own time. The case is made for Klein’s relevance and the difficulties her theories pose to the activities of learning and pedagogical relation. Klein’s vocabulary—the paranoid/schizo…
1 Introduction -- 2 The Affective domain, mathematics, and mathematics education -- 3 Investigating students' ideas about mathematics and mathematics education -- 4 Students' beliefs and attitudes about mathematics and learning mathematics -- 5 Differences in the affective responses of various groups -- 6 Changes in affective responses to mathematics through the middle school years -- 7 Buildin…
Beyond Path Dependency and Competitive Convergence -- Tacit Knowledge, Path Dependency and Local Trajectories of Growth -- Regional Transformation and Regional Disequilibrium: New Knowledge Economies and their Discontents -- Switching ties, recombining teams: Avoiding lock-in through project organization? -- Knowledge-intensive services as a key sector for processes of regional economic innovat…