Schooling the Child: The Making of Students in Classrooms

The goal of this book is to re-define the ways in which common sense and professional understandings about children re-construct, re-accomplish and sustain childhood as an experience for young people. The book extends contemporary research and theory by exploring their currency among a highly significant sector of the adult population; school teachers. For it is the school, as a key social location, that actively constructs consensual, culturally validated definitions of the Child.