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Culture and Emerging Educational Challenges

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This book is the result of a long movement of ideas and practices between Brazil

and Germany. It brings together different research methodologies (discourse

analysis, case studies, cross-cultural comparison, and action and practice-

research) and studies innovative theoretical approaches and childhood-related

practices that question present power relations and open up new ways of dealing

with emerging phenomena in the fields of school and educational policy as well

as in home-rearing, therapeutic, and community practices. A series of critical

case-studies and examples of radically innovative educational, media and

therapeutic practices and community-based interventions are presented, all of

which demonstrate the transformative powers of collective subjectivities in the

making of the history of childhood and youth and of society in general. The

studies presented in this volume also illustrate the role cultural-historical and

qualitative childhood research may play in this “making of history”. With an

introduction by M. Kontopodis and chapters by: I. Behnken, M. Benites, F.

Camerini, M. Damiani, B. Fichtner, F. Liberali, A. Lopes, M. Mascia, I. S. Soares,

H. Winkler, and W. Wörster.