TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jarvis, Pam
AB  - This book considers how adults attempt to socialise young children into the adults it aspires to produce, from a number of diverse perspectives. The evolution of storytelling and its impact upon child development is initially explored, followed by the consideration of how social class, ethnicity, culture, and colonialism impact upon the ways that societies ‘school’ children about what to expect from adulthood. Different perspectives of early years education and growing up within a British/British colonial perspective are discussed and analysed. There is a focus throughout upon the way that children are constructed by the society in question, particularly those who are considered to be of lower status in terms of being poor, orphaned, or from ethnic groups against which the dominant culture discriminates. Topics covered by the chapters include topics covered by this Special Issue: current and historical constructions of childhood; the development of linguistic and ‘storying’ skills in childhood; childhood play and recreation; childhood and ‘folk’ narratives; philosophies of childhood; childhood and industrialisation; childhood and post-industrialisation; childhood education; childhood health; and cultures of childcare.
DO  - 10.3390/books978-3-03921-935-3
ID  - OAPEN ID: 43228
KW  - play
KW  - institutionalisation
KW  - social reproduction
KW  - media
KW  - human evolution
KW  - children
KW  - purposes of nursery schooling
KW  - early-years education history
KW  - school readiness
KW  - poverty
KW  - early childhood education
KW  - abandonment
KW  - colonialism
KW  - racism
KW  - schooling for parental responsibility
KW  - childhood
KW  - early-years education
KW  - apartheid
KW  - foundling hospital
KW  - Africa
KW  - narrative
KW  - under-fives in elementary schools
KW  - urban Lancashire demographic sample 1901
KW  - storying
KW  - mythology
KW  - open-air nursery
KW  - maternal duties
KW  - Susan Isaacs
L1  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1895
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/42489
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9783039219353
SN  - 9783039219346
TI  - A British Childhood? Some Historical Reflections on Continuities and Discontinuities in the Culture of Anglophone Childhoodnull
ER  - 
