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1. Schooling the Child

   The Making of Students in Classrooms

   By Helena Austin, Bronwyn Dwyer, Peter Freebody

   What is a child?How is the concept of childhood defined?This book aims to explore these perennial and complex questions by looking at the way in which society constructs and understands childhood. The authors focus in particular on the school, a key location within which social and cultural notions...

   Published October 2nd 2002 by Routledge
2. Knowledge, Culture And Power

   International Perspectives On Literacy As Policy And Practice

   By Anthony R. Welch, Peter Freebody

   This work concerns the issues that comprise the broad field of literacy education, for example, discourses about childhood, socio-economic order and political and ideological contingencies. Analyses of literacy education from a number of different countries and cultures are included....

   Published November 29th 1992 by Routledge