Description
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes children's agency as interactional achievement in formal and informal contexts of education and illuminates how agency can be encouraged and supported in these educational contexts. Taking a sociological approach, the author deals with children as social agents rather than learners and considers structures of interaction which encourage and support agency, rather than teaching. The book draws from field research conducted over more than twenty years in a variety of Italian and international contexts. This book is unique in providing a theoretical reflection on the social structures that can support children’s agency, as well as a large amount of examples which show how these structures and agency work.
Table of Contents1. Introduction2. The Concept of Agency and the Sociology of Childhood3. Educational Interaction: Tradition and Change4. Facilitation in the Education System5. Researching Agency and Interaction: Methodological Considerations6. Facilitating Organized Manifestations of Agency7. Facilitating Unpredictable Manifestations of Agency8. Facilitating and Mediating Agency Across Cultures and Languages9. Managing Conflicts Related to Children's Agency10. Reducing and Suppressing Exercise of Agency11. Beyond Education?
