- 340 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
Urban educational research, practice, and policy is preoccupied with problems, brokenness, stigma, and blame. As a result, too many people are unable to recognize the capacities and desires of children and youth growing up in working-class communities. This book offers an alternative angle of visionâanimated by young people's own photographs, videos, and perspectives over time. It shows how a racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse community of young people in Worcester, MA used cameras at different ages (10, 12, 16 and 18) to capture and value the centrality of care in their lives, homes, and classrooms. Luttrell's immersive, creative, and layered analysis of the young people's images and narratives boldly refutes biased assumptions about working-class childhoods and re-envisions schools as inclusive, imaginative, and care-ful spaces. With an accompanying website featuring additional digital resources (childrenframingchildhoods.com), this book challenges us to see differently and, thus, set our sights on a better future.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on digital and visual elements
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgments
- Prelude: Worcester, Massachusetts, Fall, 2003
- 1. Ways of seeing diverse working-class children and childhoods
- 2. The everyday politics of belonging/s
- 3. Motherhood, childhood, and love labor in family choreographies of care
- 4. School choreographies of care: being seen, safe, and believed
- 5. Thatâs (not) me now: development, identity, and being in time
- 6. The freedom to care
- Postlude: Notes on reflexive methods: past, present, and future
- Appendix
- Notes
- References