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Book SynopsisHow do children and youth create, negotiate, change spaces and places, and assert their rights to space? Taking a socio-spatial approach, this international collection based on empirical research examines how space relates to and informs the social construction of children and youth. Examining the spaces used by children and youth in many different contexts, including neighbourhoods, community centres, schools, public streets, the natural environment, orphanages, early education classrooms, homes, borders, this collection exists at the intersection of the new sociology of childhoods and new materialism.
Rethinking Young People's Lives Through Space and Place explores three main themes, how children navigate real and imaginary borders, how space constitutes belonging, meaning-making, and representation, and how space informs learning and identities.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Public spaces as loci of education and identity building. Paul Maerky and the lives of messengers and apprentices in Geneva’s horological district, 1871-1876,
Diana Volonakis Chapter 2. Todo es diferente en la frontera: Mixed-Status Familism in the Texas Border Strip,
Carlos Aguila Chapter 3. Re-imagining Childhoods: Nepali Children’s Homes,
Jennifer Rothchild Chapter 4. From Inequality to social exclusion: What do children say about school?
Camila Caldeira Langfeldt; Angela Scalabrin Coutinho Chapter 5. Youth and their Multiple Relationships with the City: Experiences of Exclusion and Belonging in Montréal,
Natasha Blanchet-Cohen, Juan Torres, Geneviève Grégoire-Labrecque Chapter 6. Reexamining and reassembling the gendered worlds of preschool girls,
Yeojoo Yoon and Allison Sterling Henward Chapter 7. Weaving place-based education and Coast Salish knowledge: Stories from Salt Spring Island,
Jodi Streelasky Chapter 8. Please Sit Down: Children’s Creative Expression Within the Boundaries of a Structured Early Childhood Education Classroom,
Katherine Martin
