Early Childhood, Aging, and the Life Cycle: Mapping Common Ground - Paperback

by Jonathan G. Silin (Author)

Sets out the theoretical groundwork for understanding aging in new and exciting terms
Offers both a history of education and social movements, and an intellectual history of a leading curriculum scholar
Brings the work of Erik Erickson to bear on contemporary issues in education

Back Jacket

In this book, Silin maps the common ground between early childhood and the period sociologists call "young-old age." Emphasizing the continuities that bind children and adults rather than the differences that traditional developmental psychology claims separate us, he focuses on the themes we all manage across a lifetime. Building on memoir and narrative, Silin argues that when we recognize how the concerns of childhood continue to thread their way through our experience, we look anew at the shape of our lives. This book highlights the powerful generative acts through which people of all ages find new meanings and relationships to compensate for the individual and social losses that mark our lives.

Author Biography

Jonathan G. Silin is Editor-in-Chief of the Occasional Papers Series at the Bank Street College of Education, USA, and a fellow at the Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. His previous books include Sex, Death, and the Education of Children: Our Passion for Ignorance in the Age of AIDS and My Father's Keeper: Story of a Gay Son and His Aging Parents. http: //www.jonathansilin.com