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In this wide-ranging work, David Kennedy undertakes a philosophically grounded analysis of the history of childhood, the history of adulthood, and their interrelationship. Using themes and perspectives from the history of childhood, mythology, psychoanalysis, art, literature, philosophy, and education, the author locates the experience of childhood across all stages of the human life cycle, and thereby weighs its transformative potential for human culture. He offers a nuanced approach to child study that raises issues about how adults see children and how children see themselves, which could lead to a qualitatively different system of teacher preparation—a system that views the child as participant rather than object in the structure of social reproduction. This sweeping review of conceptions of and approaches to childhood yields a profound vision of what schooling should be like.

Preface

1. Questioning Childhood

      Whose Child?
      Which Adult?
      The Western Construction of Childhood
      Theorizing Childhood
      Adult-Child Dialogue
      The Child Before Us: Education, Parenting, and the Evolution of Subjectivity

2. The Primordial Child

      The Divine Child
      The Romantic Child
      Romanticism, Education, and the New Humanity

3. The Invention of Adulthood

      Adultism and Models of the Self
      The Evolution of Adulthood/Childhood
      The Evolution of the Adult-Child Relationship

4. Childhood and the Intersubject

      Boundary Work
      The Ego Dethroned
      The Emergence of the Intersubject
      Psychogenic Theory of History and the Present Age
      The Dialectics of Reason and Desire
      The Privileged Stranger

5. Reimagining School

      The Purposes of Schooling
      The Space of Dialogue
      The School as Laboratory of the Third Way of Living
      The Dark and the Light
      Notes
      Bibliography

Index

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	01 février 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780791481462
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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The Well of Being Childhood, Subjectivity, and Education

David Kennedy

THE WELL OF BEING

SUNY series, Early Childhood Education: Inquiries and Insights Mary A. Jensen, editor

The Well of Being

Childhood, Subjectivity, and Education

David Kennedy

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

Printed in the United States of America

No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher.

Cover photo © the Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland, gift of Paul S. Taylor.Mexican-American Girl, San Francisco,1928.

For information, address State University of New York Press, 194 Washington Avenue, Suite 305, Albany, NY 12210-2384

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Kennedy, David, 1943-The well of being : childhood, subjectivity, and education / David Kennedy. p. cm. — (SUNY series, early childhood education) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6825-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-7914-6825-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6826-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-7914-6826-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Children. 2. Children and adults. 3. Education. 4. Postmodernism. I. Title. II. Series.

HQ767.9.K453 2006 305.23—dc22

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

2005025462

For my children—Irene, Sean, Anna and Joel— in the form of a question

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Contents

1. Questioning Childhood Whose Child? Which Adult? The Western Construction of Childhood Theorizing Childhood Adult-Child Dialogue The Child Before Us: Education, Parenting, and the Evolution of Subjectivity

2. The Primordial Child The Divine Child The Romantic Child Romanticism, Education, and the New Humanity

3. The Invention of Adulthood Adultism and Models of the Self The Evolution ofAdulthood/Childhood The Evolution of the Adult-Child Relationship

4. Childhood and the Intersubject Boundary Work The Ego Dethroned The Emergence of the Intersubject Psychogenic Theory of History and the Present Age

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The Well of Being

The Dialectics of Reason and Desire The Privileged Stranger

5. Reimagining School The Purposes of Schooling The Space of Dialogue The School as Laboratory of the Third Way of Living The Dark and the Light

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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On How This Book Got Its Name

This book represents an attempt at a synthesis of the multiple realities and the discourses they spawn (or which spawn them), which have pre-occupied me in one way or another for as long as I can remember. I began by putting the words “postmodern subjectivity” in the title, but decided that the new form of subjectivity, which I am at pains to tease out of the welter of postmodernity might sit very poorly with any number of self-professed postmoderns; that in fact they might find it, not just naïve, but dangerous in its implications, and even consider it pre-modern or another hopeless twist of modernity itself. So I determined to back off from any claims on postmodernity and to own the fundamental discourse that guides the work, and that in fact has provided for me a context of belief that has endured behind or underneath all the permuta-tions of belief (or lack of it) that have characterized various periods of my life—Romanticism. I decided I would call the second half of the title “Childhood and Subjectivity in the Romantic Imagination.” But of course Romanticism is a name applied after the fact. Those who considered themselves “Romantics” during the Romantic period of roughly the first half of the nineteenth century might have held any number of beliefs about what it meant to “be” one, and by a principle that evokes the Cretan Liar Paradox, those who most firmly professed to be so were probably least so, and those who are now remembered as prime examples may, in their lifetimes, have either scorned or been ignorant of the term. In addition, the Romanticism with which I so deeply identify—as demonstrated by the scholar of Romantic literature M.H. Abrams, whose major work,Natural Supernaturalism, plays such

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