Children as Agents in Their Worlds: A Psychological-Relational Perspective
Autor Sheila Greene, Elizabeth Nixonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 mar 2020
Are children the passive recipients of influence from their parents and from society? Is their development determined by their genes and their neurons, or do they have the capacity to think about and influence their own lives and the world around them? Are they agents, and what do we mean by agency? Children as Agents in Their Worlds aims to answer these questions through a critical psychological approach, while referencing and critiquing a wide range of perspectives from sociology, anthropology and education.
Greene and Nixon review the pioneering work of scholars of childhood studies and offer developmental perspectives on the emergence of the sense of and exercise of agency in children. They discuss key themes including parent-child relationships and motivational, cognitive and behavioural aspects of agency in families, agency within the school context and with peers, and children as agents in the wider public sphere. Crucially, they explore agency and diversity, examining sex, age, and genetic inheritance and contextual sources of difference, such as social class and geographical location.
Offering a stronger theoretical base for research and policy, Children as Agents in Their Worlds will be essential reading for students and professionals in developmental psychology, sociology and anthropology, as well as education, childhood studies, children's rights and related fields.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1138649236
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 29 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Chapter 2. The Concept of Agency in Childhood Studies
Chapter 3. Theorising Agency
Chapter 4. The Development of Children’s Agency
Chapter 5. Children’s Agency Within Families
Chapter 6. Children’s Agency in School and with Peers
Chapter 7. Children’s Agency in the Public Sphere: Rights and Participation
Chapter 8. Agency and Diversity: Variation in the Expression of Agency by Children
Chapter 9. A Theoretical Synthesis
References
Index
Notă biografică
Elizabeth Nixon is Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology at the School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Descriere
Are children the passive recipients of influence from their parents and from society? Is their development determined by their genes and their neurons, or do they have the capacity to think about and influence their own lives and the world around them? Are they agents, and what do we mean by agency? Children as Agents in Their Worlds aims to answer these questions through a critical psychological approach, while referencing and critiquing a wide range of perspectives from sociology, anthropology and education.
Greene and Nixon review the pioneering work of scholars of childhood studies and offer developmental perspectives on the emergence of the sense of and exercise of agency in children. They discuss key themes including parent-child relationships and motivational, cognitive and behavioural aspects of agency in families, agency within the school context and with peers, and children as agents in the wider public sphere. Crucially, they explore agency and diversity, examining sex, age, and genetic inheritance and contextual sources of difference, such as social class and geographical location.
Offering a stronger theoretical base for research and policy, Children as Agents in Their Worlds will be essential reading for students and professionals in developmental psychology, sociology and anthropology, as well as education, childhood studies, children's rights and related fields.