Childhood and human value: development, separation and separability
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Main Author: Lee, Nick (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Maidenhead Open University Press 2005
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
For millennia children have been valued as possessions - valued by their parents as 'my' child and valued by communities and cultures as 'belonging' to them. Recently, a new way of valuing children has emerged ' valuing them as people in possession of themselves, as people who have rights. This has led to fears that rights will erode love between parents and children, and separate children from their communities and cultures. Childhood and Human Value explains why people feel this way and argues that they are mistaken. Adults in modern societies have separation anxieties about children's right
pt. 1 - Possession and separation : resistance to children's rights -- - 1 - Value and possession -- - 2 - Value and separation -- - pt. 2 - Social status and performances of separation -- - 3 - Basil Bernstein : language, class and separation -- - 4 - Ulrich Beck : inequality, risk and separation -- - pt. 3 - Separability and integration -- - 5 - Carol Gilligan : gender, moral judgement and separability -- - 6 - D.W. Winnicott : insides, outsides and separability -- - pt. 4 - Competence and separability -- - 7 - Lev Vygotsky : thinking for oneself -- - 8 - Norbert Elias : being responsible for oneself -- - pt. 5 - Human value and childhood -- - 9 - Deleuze and Guattari : separability and the composition of human value -- - 10 - Conclusion : three themes
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 166 pages)
ISBN:033521424X
0335226132
1280954396
9780335214242
9780335226139
9781280954399

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