Rethinking Childhood

Index

Index 279 279 Index Abrahams, R., 105, 109 action(s): agendas for, 77; behaving, 73, 76; children’s, 69–72; consequences of, 77; describing, 78; development and, 69–72; emergence of capacity for, 72; importance of, 81; interpretation, 73, 77; in Junior Summit Program, 132–134; metaphors for, 72–78; neglect of, 70; self-organization, 73, 75; selfreflection , 73; understanding, 78 activism, 98, 99 adults: patronization of children by, 3; perspectives on providing help to children, 196–198; power over children, 211; responsibilities toward children, 40; social capital perspectives, 191–204 advertising and marketing: aggressive strategies in, 150; authoritarianism in, 143; behavior and, 149; education and, 149–150; effect on children, 3; effect on health, 148–149; focused on children, 2, 141–151; implications for voice and agency, 150–151; KGOY (kids getting older younger) phenomenon, 145; low-income children and, 158; pervasiveness of, 144–147; playing to children’s vulnerabilities, 152; resistance to, 150, 151; role of behavioral science/ psychology in, 147–148; in schools, 147; targeting preschoolers, 145–146; targeting “tweens,” 146; values and, 149 African American children: cultural exclusion and, 106; educational process and, 14; poverty and, 104– 116; preference for communal learning style, 15, 110–115; resilient schools and, 10; schooling outcomes for, 104–116; social domains of, 109– 110; task performance of, 112–115; triple quandary of, 109 age, importance in granting agency, 57 ageism, effects on lives of children, 33 agency: advertising and marketing and, 150–151; changing quality of, 16; children’s capacity for, 9, 10, 64; consumerism and, 142–143; defining, 9; erosion of perception of children as having, 57; exercising, 9; importance of age in granting, 57; reconstruction of, 15; religious, 62; spirituality and, 56; of sports players, 210–212; voice as expression of, 9 Aidman, A., 136 Albury, A., 113 Alderson, P., 35 Allatt, P., 174 280 Index Allison, K., 156 Amato, P. R., 176, 177, 183 Anderson, H., 158 Ani, M., 109 Annan, K., 135 Anscombe, E., 39 Anyan, S., 173, 175 applied developmental science: defining, 10–11; disciplinary boundaries and, 10 Archard, D., 32, 170 Arditti, J. A., 177 Aries, P., 27 Aristotle, 3, 40, 48, 50, 51 Aschenbrenner, J., 111 Asher, S. R., 155, 157 Associated Schools Project, 125 Au, K., 104 Augustine, 48, 50, 51 Ausubel, D., 104 autobiography, 93, 95–96 Baker, R., 80 Bandura, A., 127, 130 Banks, C., 104 Banks, J. C., 101, 104 Baratz, J. C., 105, 109 Baratz, S. S., 105, 109 Barnes, G., 178 Barnett, M. A., 193 Baron, S., 193 Battle, S., 104 Beck, U., 170 Becker, H., 210 Beck-Gernsheim, E., 170 Bereiter, C. M., 104 Berger, B. G., 207 Berkowitz, P., 166 Berla, N., 95 Berlin, I., 229 Berndt, T. J., 156 Berry, J., 107 Berryman, J. W., 63 Bluebond-Langner, M., 64 Boggs, S., 108 Bolger, K. E., 157 Boutilier, M. A., 211 Bowen v. Gilliard, 253 Bowlby, J., 27 Boykin, W., 106 Brannen, J., 184 Brooks-Gunn, J., 157 Brown, A. L., 91 Brown v. Board of Education, 231, 232 Bruner, J. S., 96, 107 Bryant, B. K., 195 Burman, E., 26, 27 Burns, A., 175, 176, 180 Burns, S., 183, 184 Burton, L. M., 156 Campione, J. C., 91 capital: potential, 105; social, 112, 191– 204 Carlson, M., 193 Carlsson-Paige, N., 151n1 Carmichael, L., 70 causality: final, 40; formal, 40 Center for Commercial-Free Public Education, 147 Center for Media Education, 136 Chang, G., 91 Channel One, 147 Chauk, S., 122 Chaumeton, N., 216 Chavajay, P., 106 Chess, S., 13 childhood: action in, 69–83; agency in, 8–9; Aristotelian concepts of, 40; assumed characteristics of, 34; changing expectations of, 25–26; children’s part in shaping, 28–29; commercialization of, 142–151; conceptualization of life course and, 33; in consumer-driven culture, 143– 144; creation of society with peers in, 15; cultural artifacts of, 34; cultural change and, 20; differing experiences of, 18; in early societies, 27–28; environment and, 69–72; experience of, 26; growing consumers from, 142; heredity and, 69–72; identity in, 69– 83; interdisciplinary perspective on, 25–36; interventions in, 30, 31; listening to, 6; maturation of studies of, 29–32; objectification of, 57; Index 281 potentials in, 3, 25–36; poverty and, 154–167; pressures on, 66; problematic nature of, 3–4; process for rethinking, 1–20; realities of, 3; romanticization of, 2; social ambivalence about, 1–3, 4; social construction of, 28, 57; social...