Disclosing Childhoods Research and Knowledge Production for a Critical Childhood Studies /

• Main Author: Spyrou, Spyros (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth
• Subjects: Childhood.; Adolescence.; Social groups.; Family.; Human geography.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.; Human Geography.

Disclosing Childhoods offers a critical account of knowledge production in childhood studies. The book argues for the need to be reflexive about the knowledge practices of the field and to scrutinize the role of researchers in disclosing certain childhoods rather than others. A relational lens is us...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Disclosing childhoods
• 2. Towards a decentering of 'the child'
• 3. Knowledge production in childhood studies
• 4. The production of children's voices
• 5. What kind of agency for children?
• 6. Children's participation in research as a knowledge practice
• 7. The ethics and politics of knowledge production in childhood studies.