Refusing the Limits of Contemporary Childhood - Beyond Innocence

Each of the essays in this collection considers what lies beyond the limiting discourses of childhood innocence. Instead of focusing on how children "grow up," as has been the focus of developmental science for over a century, we ask what it might mean for discourses of childhood to finally "grow out" of childhood innocence?

List of contents

Introduction: Moving Beyond Innocence
Julie C. Garlen & Neil T. Ramjewan
Who Is Entitled to Childhood Innocence? Kisha McPherson and Chanelle Perrier-Telemaque
Unpacking the Adultification-Infantilization Paradox Sebastian Barajas
Childhood Innocence, Sanism, and the Image of the Child Adam Davies
Zapatista Childhoods Kathia Núñez Patiño
Adultism in Uganda's Child Protection Efforts Doris Kakuru
Malleable Innocence Anusha Iyer
Narrating Trauma, Subverting Innocence Mayurika Chakravorty
The Arrivant Child Neil T. Ramjewan
Troubling InnocenceDominique C. Hill and Durell M. Callier

Index
About the Contributors

About the author

Julie C. Garlen is the director of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies and a professor of childhood and youth studies at Carleton University.Neil T. Ramjewan is a Ph.D. candidate in curriculum and pedagogy at the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE).Julie C. Garlen is the director of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies and a professor of childhood and youth studies at Carleton University.Neil T. Ramjewan is a Ph.D. candidate in curriculum and pedagogy at the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE).

Summary

Each of the essays in this collection considers what lies beyond the limiting discourses of childhood innocence. Instead of focusing on how children “grow up,” as has been the focus of developmental science for over a century, we ask what it might mean for discourses of childhood to finally “grow out” of childhood innocence?

Product details

• Authors: Julie C. Ramjewan Garlen
• Assisted by: Julie C. Garlen (Editor), Garlen Julie C. (Editor), Neil T. Ramjewan (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781666911534
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-153-4
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Critical Childhood & Youth Studies: Theoretical Explorations and Practices in Clinical, Educational, Social, and Cultural Settings
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, Child, developmental & lifespan psychology, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Age groups: children