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Author Newson, John, 1925-2010.

Title Perspectives on school at seven years old / John and Elizabeth Newson with Peter Barnes
Published Oxon [England] : Routledge, 2012, ©1977

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Description 1 online resource (216 pages) : forms
Series Routledge library editions. Education ; v. 51
Routledge library editions. Education ; v. 51.
Contents PERSPECTIVES ON SCHOOL AT SEVEN YEARS OLD; Copyright; Perspectives on School at Seven Years Old; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Tables; Introduction; Chapter 1 To Qualify Itself to Live in Society; Chapter 2 How Willingly to School?; Chapter 3 The Prosthesis of Culture; Chapter 4 Both Intermediary and Beneficiary; Chapter 5 A Necessary Condition of Liberty; Chapter 6 The Tender Leaves of Hope; Further Reading; Appendix I: The Interview Schedule; Appendix II: Sampling; References; Index
Summary This volume looks at the social and intellectual forces which the child encounters in class-room and playground from the parent's point of view. School and home are seen as the separate yet overlapping worlds of childhood - for some children more uncompromisingly separated than for others. In the social development of the child, school functions as a link between the kinds of demands (and immunities) which are characteristic of family life, and those which the child will discover in the wider society of adulthood. The authors provide a meeting-point for developmental psychology, sociology a
Notes Originally published in 1977 by George Allen & Unwin
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Education.
Home and school.
EDUCATION -- Elementary.
Education
Home and school
Form Electronic book
Author Newson, Elizabeth, 1929-2014.
Barnes, Peter, 1946-
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