Problems involved in establishing childhood research as a branch of educational science - A survey of questions, concepts, and findings

Journal/Book: Z Padagog. 1996; 42: Am Hauptbahnhof 10, Postfach 1120, W-6940 Weinheim, Germany. Verlag Julius Beltz. 325-345.

Abstract: Over the past fifteen years, many conceptual and empirical studies have been written which can he classified under pedagogical child research. At the center of these studies is an action-oriented effort to understand the special world of the child. In contrast, the position presented here reminds us that pedagogical semantics is tied to a historically constituted difference between childhood and adulthood. It is therefore suggested that childhood be understood as a construct or the symbolic order of relationships between the generations and that this order be made the object of childhood research within educational science.

Note: Review MS Honig, Deutsch Jugendinst eV, Freibadstr 30, D-81543 Munich, Germany

Keyword(s): DAY-CARE; CHILDREN; SITUATION; SCHOOL; FAMILY

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