A 400-year history of America shaped by the labor, exploitation, and resistance of children“This important book exposes the lie at the heart of the American Dream and forces a more honest accounting of how freedom for some has always depended on the repression of the young.”—Stacey Patton, author of Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black ChildrenThe first book on the four-hundred-year formation of the US told fr...

Thinking, Childhood, and Time: Contemporary Perspectives on the Politics of Education is an interdisciplinary exploration of the notion of childhood and its place in a philosophical education. Contributors consider children’s experiences of time, space, embodiment, and thinking. By acknowledging Hannah Arendt’s notion that every child brings a new beginning into the world, they address the question of how educators can be more responsive to the Otherness that childhood offers, while assumi...

A 400-year history of America shaped by the labor, exploitation, and resistance of children“This important book exposes the lie at the heart of the American Dream and forces a more honest accounting of how freedom for some has always depended on the repression of the young.”—Stacey Patton, author of Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black ChildrenThe first book on the four-hundred-year formation of the US told fr...