From Children's Services to Children's Spaces: Public Policy, Children and Childhood

by Peter Moss and Pat Petrie

Book Overview

More than ever before, children are apparently being recognised as social actors and citizens. Yet public policy often involves increased control and surveillance of children. This book explores the contradiction. It shows how different ways of thinking about children produce different childhoods, different public provisions for children (including schools) and different ways of working with children. It argues that how we understand children and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415247810
• ISBN13: 9780415247818
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 8.9"