The Child in the World/The World in the Child: Education and the Configuration of a Universal, Modern, and Globalized Childhood - Paperback

by M. Bloch (Editor), D. Kennedy (Editor), T. Lightfoot (Editor)

The contributors look at universalizing discourses concerning young children across the globe, which purport to describe everyone in a scientific and neutral way, but actually create mechanisms through which children are divided and excluded. The contributors to this book employ post-structuralist, postcolonial, and feminist theoretical frameworks.

Author Biography

MARIANNE BLOCH is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

DEVORAH KENNEDY is a PhD Candidate in Early Childhood Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

THEODORA LIGHTFOOT is Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA.

DAR WEYENBERG is a PhD Candidate in Curriculum Theory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.