The Posthuman Child: Educational transformation through philosophy with picturebooks

by Karin Murris

Book Overview

The Posthuman Child combats institutionalised ageist practices in primary, early childhood and teacher education. Grounded in a critical posthumanist perspective on the purpose of education, it provides a genealogy of psychology, sociology and philosophy of childhood in which dominant figurations of child and childhood are exposed as positioning child as epistemically and ontologically inferior. Entangled throughout this book are practical and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138858447
• ISBN13: 9781138858442
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"