Children's Life-Histories in Primary Schools: Imagining Schooling as a Positive Experience

By Denise Buchanan, Eleanore Hargreaves, Laura Quick

This open access book explores schooling from the perspective of children via data from a longitudinal life-history study. It questions whether schooling creates an environment where all children to flourish; or whether a policy focus on attainment in mathematics and English hinders some children's wellbeing and learning. By drawing on the children's life-history narratives and their ideas, the chapters also portray children's realistic suggestions for practices that meet the needs of diverse children and strengthen their comprehensive wellbeing and learning within schooling.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031694449
• ISBN13: 9783031694448
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"