As a Conclusion, to the Future: A Discussion on Trust, Agency and the Semantics of Rights in Intergenerational Relationships

Farini, F. (2019) As a Conclusion, to the Future: A Discussion on Trust, Agency and the Semantics of Rights in Intergenerational Relationships. In: Farini, F. and Scollan, A. (eds.) Children’s Self-determination in the Context of Early Childhood Education and Services : Discourses, Policies and Practices. Amsterdam: Springer. pp. 267-280.

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Abstract:	One of the characteristics of modernity of European societies, as much as its global ramifications, is a socio-cultural process commonly known as ‘the discovery of the child’. Since the XVII century, a construct called ‘childhood’, has appeared, gradually but irresistibly, as a structural component of all social systems (Ariés, 1962, Cunningham, 2005). Social systems such as the arts, families, law, health, politics, economics and science have contributed, each one from its specific perspective and language, to the generation of a multidimensional, complex, often contradictory but nevertheless solid semantics of ‘childhood in society’. Professional practices and discourses have been crossing, clashing, converging and diverging within and across social systems, mixing and overlapping. The result is a panoply of portraits of the same subject, the child, painted with a wide range of ideas and beliefs concerning its capabilities, the value of its agency and the possibility for its self-determination.
Creators:	Farini, Federico
Editors:	Farini, Federico and Scollan, Angela
Publisher:	Springer
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:	Faculties > Faculty of Health & Society > Applied Social Studies & Sociology University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > Centre for Education and Research Research Centres > Centre for Education and Research Research Centres > Centre for Psychology and Social Sciences
Date:	9 June 2019
Date Type:	Publication
Page Range:	pp. 267-280
Title of Book:	Children’s Self-determination in the Context of Early Childhood Education and Services : Discourses, Policies and Practices
Volume:	25
Place of Publication:	Amsterdam
Number of Pages:	14
Language:	English
ISBN:	978-3-030-14555-2
Status:	Published / Disseminated
Refereed:	Yes
Related URLs:	https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030... https://pure.northampton.ac.uk/en/public...
URI:	http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/13724

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