Philosophical Presentations of Raising Children The Grammar of Upbringing /

• Main Authors: Hodgson, Naomi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Ramaekers, Stefan (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Childhood.; Adolescence.; Motion pictures and television.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.; Screen Studies.; Philosophy of Education.

This book uses contemporary film to articulate a philosophical account of raising children. It forms part of a revaluation of the parent as a pedagogical figure, which stands in contrast to the instrumental accounts dominant in contemporary 'parenting' culture. Hodgson and Ramaekers use fi...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Philosophical background
• 1. Parenting, upbringing, and educational philosophy
• 2. The educational force of film: Presentations of upbringing
• Part II: The films
• 3. The Seventh Continent: Taking care and making family
• 4. Dogtooth: Initiating children in language and world
• 5. Le Fils: (Re)Turning and assembling Reminders
• Part III: Postscript
• 6. Towards a pedagogical understanding of upbringing. .