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Childhood as a question of critiques and justifications: Insights into Boltanski’s sociology
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In this paper, the authors present a sociological model of justification for childhood-adulthood relations, based on a pragmatic sociology of critique and the double requirement of equality and order between human beings.Abstract:
In France, definitions of childhood and relations between adults (parents, professionals, public authorities, scientists, even sociologists …) and children, continue to be matters of debate in everyday life, scientific practices and political arenas. This article intends to show how these debates can be analysed as an object of research, using Boltanski’s sociological model of Justification. The presentation of this framework highlights its relations to the contributions of two other French sociologists whose works are not directly interested in childhood: Bourdieu and Latour. It is centred on two main aspects of this model: the study of operations of critiques and justifications based on a pragmatic sociology of critique and the idea of its double requirement: equality and order between human beings. It shows how this framework can be useful for thinking about childhood–adulthood relations as a moral and political order which is an object of debates. Then, from an historical example, the author proposes ...read more
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The Practice Of Everyday Life
TL;DR: The the practice of everyday life is universally compatible with any devices to read and is available in the digital library an online access to it is set as public so you can download it instantly.
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Bruno Latour, The pasteurization of France , trans. Alan Sheridan and John Law, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. 273, £23.95. - Georges Canguilhem, Ideology and rationality in the history of the life sciences , trans. Arthur Goldhammer, Cambridge, Mass., and London, The MIT Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xi, 160, £17.95.
TL;DR: The Pasteurization of France can be viewed as a battle, with its field and its myriad contestants, in which opposing sides attempted to mould and coerce various forces of resistance.
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A networked-hutong siwei of critiques for critical teacher education
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that current critical teacher education is uncritically constructed upon key theoretical departures from critical theories, and examine the ways these theoretical departures limit the structure of critique and therefore impede the effort to empower educational actors, including students.
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Children of Two to Three Years of Age in France: Early Childhood Settings and Age Divisions.
TL;DR: Depending on the ways in which their age is defined by these settings, it is shown how these settings create different experiences for children, which make them ‘petit’ (at the école maternelle) or ‘grand” ( at the crèche).
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Subjetivação pública ou socialização política? sobre as articulações entre o “político” e a infância
TL;DR: Palavras-chave as discussed by the authors proposes a nocao de subjetivacao publica como aquela que pode dar conta do processo de crescente visibilizacao das disputas e demandas geracionais no contexto escolar.
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