Children Framing Childhoods: Working-Class Kids' Visions of Care
Wendy Luttrell
Abstract
Urban educational research, practice, and policy is preoccupied with problems, brokenness, stigma, and blame. As a result, too many people are unable to recognize the capacities and desires of children and youth growing up in working-class communities. This book offers an alternative angle of vision—animated by young people's own photographs, videos, and perspectives over time. It shows how a racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse community of young people in Worcester, Massachusetts, used cameras at different ages to capture and value the centrality of care in their lives, homes, an ... More
Keywords: young people, diverse community, Worcester, care, home, classroom, children, youth, working-class community, working-class childhood
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 | Print ISBN-13: 9781447352853 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: September 2020 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447352853.001.0001 |
