Description
Book SynopsisBased on a unique longitudinal study and offering a critical visual methodology of collaborative seeing, this book shows how a diverse community of young people in Worcester, MA used cameras at different ages (10, 12, 16, 18) to capture the centrality of care in their lives, homes and classrooms.
Trade Review"Children Framing Childhoods challenges the deficit models of working-class children by asking them to tell us what is important to know about school and home. Demonstrating their ways of doing care work offers adults lessons on how to create a caring environment and offers hope for the future of our country." Mary Romero, President of the American Sociological Association
“A powerful book that centralizes the voices of children, specifically illuminating how working-class kids frame their childhoods—through photographs and related meanings and contexts. [It] has a strong and powerful focus on how social inequalities, especially related to class, race, and gender, shape how the children and young people learn and express what they feel entitled to, constrained by, and how they envision their future possibilities. Overall, the most powerful and crucial of the children’s stories and photographs is the depth that is manifested in their profound and basic understanding about care—that care is work, something that requires time, effort, resources, and coordination, as well as attention and investment; it is also mundane, necessary, and arduous and affectively linked with social units and spaces (in this case, family, school, friendship circles, and communities). Care, then as Luttrell argues, is the basic currency of community—indeed, in a democratic society, it is the precondition of freedom itself.” Journal of Women and Social Work
Table of ContentsPrelude: Worcester, Massachusetts. Fall, 2003 Digital Interlude #1: Dwelling in School 1. Ways of Seeing Diverse Working-Class Children and Childhoods 2. The Everyday Politics of Belonging/s 3. Motherhood, Childhood, and Love Labor in Family Choreographies of Care Digital Interlude #2: Feeding the Family 4. School Choreographies of Care: Being Seen, Being Safe, and Being Believed Digital Interlude #3: Nice…? 5. That’s (Not) Me Now: Development, Identity, and Being in Time Digital Interlude #4: Being in Time 6. The Freedom to Care Postlude: Notes on Reflexive Methods: Past, Present, and Future Digital Interlude #5: Collaborative Seeing
