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This Open Access edited volume addresses the important role of education in society through the lens of theoretical concepts developed by Norbert Elias. This book sets out to challenge dominant perspectives within the sociology of education by reorientating traditional debates about socialisation, childhood, early years education, care, schooling and the curriculum, focusing on the relational learning processes that lie at the heart of pedagogic relationships between parents, teachers, children and peers. It also offers an innovative perspective on some of the key debates in childhood studies, bringing together and relating the different aspects of childhood through a generational lens. Authors from different countries follow young children as they grow up and learn how to become civilized in institutions in contemporary society, discussing how from one generation to the next they learn from adults and their peers an enormous social fund of knowledge about their world.

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Author:   Norman Gabriel
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783031609602

ISBN 10:   3031609603
Pages:   275
Publication Date:   25 September 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Chapter1: Introduction.- Chapter2: Sociology of Early Childhood – why we need child psychoanalysis.- Chapter3: Early Childhood Education in Brazil: Interdependent relationships between young children and adults.- Chapter4: Bringing Norbert Elias to school: education and the civilising process.- Chapter5: Banal nationalism for babies:the early transmission of national habitus to children in the family.- Chapter6: Changes in play and playgrounds within recent informalising and reformalising cycles of parent-child relationships (1950-2020).- Chapter7: Young People’s Use of School-Based Banter Mark Mierzwinski (York St John University) Philippa Velija (University of Roehampton).- Chapter8: Childhood figurations and processes of social inequality in Brazil.- Chapter9: Down Mom! The Development of Unacknowledged Shame, Child Centering and Gender Relations in Germany.- Chapter10: The contribution of Norbert Elias’s theoretical-empirical framework to the sociology of childhood: some tensions and research experiences.- Chapter11: Upper secondary school as an innovative health laboratory-a process study about exercise, sport and democracy in a youth culture.- Chapter12: Back to the Future: Education, Education, and Education.

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Norman Gabriel is Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, United Kingdom.

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