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Facilitating Children's Agency in the Interaction

Challenges for the Education System

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Authors:
  1. Claudio Baraldi

    1. Dipartimento Studi Linguistici e Culturali, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

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  • For scholars and practitioners interested in understanding how to support children’s participation in education
  • Draws from research conducted over more than twenty years
  • Details adult facilitation of constructing children's agency and narratives of personal experience

Part of the book series: Studies in Childhood and Youth (SCY)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Claudio Baraldi
    Pages 1-6

  3. The Concept of Agency and the Sociology of Childhood

    • Claudio Baraldi
    Pages 7-37

  4. Educational Interaction: Tradition and Change

    • Claudio Baraldi
    Pages 39-65

  5. Facilitation in the Education System

    • Claudio Baraldi
    Pages 67-93

  6. Researching Agency and Interaction: Methodological Considerations

    • Claudio Baraldi
    Pages 95-113

  7. Ways of Facilitating Children’ Agency

    • Claudio Baraldi
    Pages 115-147

  8. Facilitating Children’s Autonomous Initiatives

    • Claudio Baraldi
    Pages 149-170

  9. Facilitating Children’s Agency Across Cultures and Languages

    • Claudio Baraldi
    Pages 171-193

  10. Managing Conflicts Related to Children’s Agency

    • Claudio Baraldi
    Pages 195-219

  11. Reducing and Suppressing Children’s Agency

    • Claudio Baraldi
    Pages 221-240

  12. Conclusions: Beyond Education?

    • Claudio Baraldi
    Pages 241-255

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 257-260
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About this book

This book analyzes children's agency as interactional achievement in formal and informal contexts of education and illuminates how agency can be encouraged and supported in these educational contexts. Taking a sociological approach, the author deals with children as social agents rather than learners and considers structures of interaction which encourage and support agency, rather than teaching. The book draws from field research conducted over more than twenty years in a variety of Italian and international contexts. This book is unique in providing a theoretical reflection on the social structures that can support children’s agency, as well as a large amount of examples which show how these structures and agency work. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento Studi Linguistici e Culturali, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

    Claudio Baraldi

About the author

Claudio Baraldi is Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes in the Department of Studies on Language and Culture at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. His research concerns communication systems, especially intercultural and interlinguistic communication and adult-children interactions in educational contexts. He has co-authored, edited and co-edited eight books for international publishers, and published more than 60 chapters and articles in international volumes and journals. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Facilitating Children's Agency in the Interaction

  • Book Subtitle: Challenges for the Education System

  • Authors: Claudio Baraldi

  • Series Title: Studies in Childhood and Youth

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09978-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09977-9Published: 27 October 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09980-9Published: 27 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09978-6Published: 26 October 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2731-6467

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-6475

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 260

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology of Education, Education, general, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Research Methods in Education

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