David Blundell is Principal Lecturer and Programme Director for Education Studies at London Metropolitan University, UK. He is the author of Education and Constructions of Childhood (Bloomsbury, 2012).

[Blundell] writes in a highly engaging style, with a lightness and clarity that makes some very difficult theoretical material highly accessible to a wide audience. For this reason, the book will be an invaluable resource to support undergraduate teaching.

• Series Editor's PrefaceAcknowledgementsPrefacePart I: Debates, Dilemmas and Challenges: Childhood and the Place of Children1. Introduction2. Modern Childhood as a Symbolic Space and Children as Social ActorsPart II: The Issues and Debates Defined: Space, Place and Spatiality3. Spatiality and Understanding Children’s LivesPart III: Implications for Children’s Lives4. Scholarisation and Institutional Spaces of Childhood5. Playing Out: Range, Territories and Children’s Activity Space6. Constructing Identities and Children in Relational Space7. ‘Nature’ and Discursive Spaces of Childhood8. Globalization and Future Spaces of ChildhoodBibliographyIndex

David Blundell is Principal Lecturer and Programme Director for Education Studies at London Metropolitan University, UK. He is the author of Education and Constructions of Childhood (Bloomsbury, 2012).

[Blundell] writes in a highly engaging style, with a lightness and clarity that makes some very difficult theoretical material highly accessible to a wide audience. For this reason, the book will be an invaluable resource to support undergraduate teaching.

• Series Editor's PrefaceAcknowledgementsPrefacePart I: Debates, Dilemmas and Challenges: Childhood and the Place of Children1. Introduction2. Modern Childhood as a Symbolic Space and Children as Social ActorsPart II: The Issues and Debates Defined: Space, Place and Spatiality3. Spatiality and Understanding Children’s LivesPart III: Implications for Children’s Lives4. Scholarisation and Institutional Spaces of Childhood5. Playing Out: Range, Territories and Children’s Activity Space6. Constructing Identities and Children in Relational Space7. ‘Nature’ and Discursive Spaces of Childhood8. Globalization and Future Spaces of ChildhoodBibliographyIndex