This Open Access edited volume addresses the important role of education in society through the lens of theoretical concepts developed by Norbert Elias. This book sets out to challenge dominant perspectives within the sociology of education by reorientating traditional debates about socialisation, childhood, early years education, care, schooling and the curriculum, focusing on the relational learning processes that lie at the heart of pedagogic relationships between parents, teachers, children and peers. It also offers an innovative perspective on some of the key debates in childhood studies, bringing together and relating the different aspects of childhood through a generational lens. Authors from different countries follow young children as they grow up and learn how to become civilized in institutions in contemporary society, discussing how from one generation to the next they learn from adults and their peers an enormous social fund of knowledge about their world.
Chapter1: Introduction.
Chapter2: Sociology of Early Childhood why we
need child psychoanalysis.
Chapter3: Early Childhood Education in Brazil:
Interdependent relationships between young children and adults.
Chapter4:
Bringing Norbert Elias to school: education and the civilising process.-
Chapter5: Banal nationalism for babies:the early transmission of national
habitus to children in the family.
Chapter6: Changes in play and playgrounds
within recent informalising and reformalising cycles of parent-child
relationships (1950-2020).
Chapter7: Young Peoples Use of School-Based
Banter Mark Mierzwinski (York St John University) Philippa Velija (University
of Roehampton).
Chapter8: Childhood figurations and processes of social
inequality in Brazil.
Chapter9: Down Mom! The Development of Unacknowledged
Shame, Child Centering and Gender Relations in Germany.
Chapter10: The
contribution of Norbert Eliass theoretical-empirical framework to the
sociology of childhood: some tensions and research experiences.
Chapter11:
Upper secondary school as an innovative health laboratory-a process study
about exercise, sport and democracy in a youth culture.
Chapter12: Back to
the Future: Education, Education, and Education.
Norman Gabriel is Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, United Kingdom.
