International Comparisons in Learning and Education

Norman Gabriel is Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, United Kingdom.

Chapter1: Introduction.- Chapter2: Sociology of Early Childhood - why we need child psychoanalysis.- Chapter3: Early Childhood Education in Brazil: Interdependent relationships between young children and adults.- Chapter4: Bringing Norbert Elias to school: education and the civilising process.- Chapter5: Banal nationalism for babies:the early transmission of national habitus to children in the family.- Chapter6: Changes in play and playgrounds within recent informalising and reformalising cycles of parent-child relationships (1950-2020).- Chapter7: Young People's Use of School-Based Banter Mark Mierzwinski (York St John University) Philippa Velija (University of Roehampton).- Chapter8: Childhood figurations and processes of social inequality in Brazil.- Chapter9: Down Mom! The Development of Unacknowledged Shame, Child Centering and Gender Relations in Germany.- Chapter10: The contribution of Norbert Elias's theoretical-empirical framework to the sociology of childhood: some tensions and research experiences.- Chapter11: Upper secondary school as an innovative health laboratory-a process study about exercise, sport and democracy in a youth culture.- Chapter12: Back to the Future: Education, Education, and Education.