Children, Power and Schooling : How Childhood Is Structured in the Primary School

Devine, Dympna

ISBN 10: 1858562716 / ISBN 13: 9781858562711

Published by Institute of Education Press (IOE Press), 2004

About this Item

Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Children, Power and Schooling : How Childhood Is Structured in the Primary School
• Publisher: Institute of Education Press (IOE Press)
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1858562716
• ISBN 13: 9781858562711
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.571 pounds

About this title

Synopsis

This is an exploration of childhood and schooling from the perspective of the children. The author has allowed the children to speak for themselves and reports their words and ideas in this important book. What the children say shows that it is the adults in the school who control their experience. These adults control not only their learning but the values they should imbibe, their experience of schools as well as their experience of themselves.

Dympna Devine powerfully makes the case powerfully for children to have a more democratic and inclusive school experience that positions them as citizens and not just as potential citizens in the making. Children should be treated as full participants in school and have the right to expect their views to be taken seriously by the adults in their schools. And, as this book shows, they are eloquent about how this can be done.

This is a book for policy makers, school managers and teachers. It will also be of interest to parents and to students of teaching and their trainers.

About the Author

Dympna Devine is a lecturer in sociology at the Education Department, National University of Ireland, Dublin, where she is director of the M.Ed program.