Exploring Childhood and Youth

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Editors’ acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction
	The chapters
	References
Chapter 1: Childhood identities and materiality
	Introduction
	What does the concept of identity mean?
	Materiality
	Materiality: constructing views about childhood
	Materiality: children's own constructions of self
	Concluding thoughts
	Note
	References
Chapter 2: Becoming a child
	Introduction
	Cultural constructions of the unborn
	Sociological perspectives
	Legal and rights-based perspectives
	Concluding thoughts
	References
Chapter 3: Children and young people negotiating gender in context
	Introduction
	The meanings and emergence of gender
	Gendered boundaries in school and beyond
	Performing gender and heterosexuality in digital spaces
	Trans, queer and non-binary young lives
	Concluding thoughts
	References
Chapter 4: Food, eating and identities
	Introduction
	Food at school: experiences of ethnicity and class
	Food, rituals and family identity
	Intersections of family, migration and class
	Moral and ethical identities of food and eating: health, vegetarianism and more
	Generationed food: 'children's food' and beyond
	Gender identities
	Creating and maintaining food identities: social norms and the commercial world
	Concluding thoughts: food as an expression of intersecting identities
	References
Chapter 5: Everyday violence and everyday places
	Introduction
	Conceptualising everyday violence
	Children's experiences of everyday violence in Bangladesh
		The research context: an Urdu-speaking Bihari camp in Bangladesh
		Everyday violence in everyday spaces
		Everyday violence and gendered power dynamics
		Generational power and inequalities
	Concluding thoughts
	References
Chapter 6: Getting ready for school: who’s playing?
	Introduction
	The early years setting: a site for education and care
	Why play?
	The rise and enduring appeal of play-based pedagogies
	Early learning in England: a battleground for play?
	Who leads? Who listens?
	Concluding thoughts: school readiness, a case for play and the play professional
	References
Chapter 7: Children and young people’s experiences of school: do we listen hard enough?
	Introduction
	Schooling for future life
	Experiences of authoritative and student-centred classrooms
	Experiences of assessment, ability groups/sets and labelling
		Assessment: tests and exams
		Ability groups and sets
	Feeling afraid in school
	Low family income and participation in school
	A way forward
	Concluding thoughts
	References
Chapter 8: Poverty, place and learning
	Introduction
	Poverty, learning experiences and place
	The importance of place: exploring children's learning experiences in an underprivileged area
	The case
	The case: social and industrial heritage
	What shapes our experiences: a focus on Bourdieu's Theory of Practice (1984)
	The importance of place and belonging in shaping children's learning experiences
	Supporting formal learning
	Access to informal learning: opportunities within and beyond the valley
	Links to the past: a collective history
	Concluding thoughts
	References
Chapter 9: Inequalities in access to further and higher education
	Introduction
	Moving on or staying on?
	A knowledge economy?
	How are inequalities reflected in post-school outcomes and entry to higher education?
	Understanding young people's decision-making about higher education
	How policy frames the problem of inequality
	Concluding thoughts: Where does this leave young people?
	References
Chapter 10: Normal ways for normal days: building our practice upon the exploration of people’s preferences
	Introduction
		Good morning
	Let's try to agree something to start with ...
	How we make the additional everyday
	Attitudes
	Paperwork
	Practices
	Concluding thoughts
		Seeking the normal
	Acknowledgement
	Notes
	References
Chapter 11: Children, young people and voluntourism
	Introduction
	Gap years and voluntourism
	What about the children?
	Reciprocal altruism or child exploitation?
	Concluding thoughts
	References
Chapter 12: Eugenics and the lives of disabled children
	Introduction
		What is eugenics, and how is it relevant today?
	A brief history of eugenics
	Segregating children
	Beyond segregation
	Modern technologies and the future of disabled children
	Concluding thoughts
	References
Chapter 13: Psychiatrising children
	Introduction
	What is mad studies?
	A mad studies framing of child psychiatrisation
	Case study
	Concluding thoughts
	References
Chapter 14: Children in the digital world: privacy and autonomy in surveilled digital lives
	Introduction
	Social media: making private lives public
	Sharenting: do children have a right to privacy from their parents?
	Young people's social media activities: a 'privacy paradox'?
	Identities and contexts
	The commercial world: the hidden side of privacy and surveillance
	Limiting human autonomy: manipulation through digital technologies
	Is media literacy the answer?
	References
Chapter 15: Changing environments
	Taubaté, São Paulo State, Brazil
	Introduction
	Resources, interconnectedness and nexus thinking
	Taking environmental action
	Thinking materially: children, non-humans and Common Worlds
	Concluding thoughts
	Notes
	References
Index