The Political Life of ChildrenRobert Coles, one of the most eminent child psychiatrists in the world, spent over a decade researching this book and its companion volume, The Moral Life of Children. Coles visits children all over the world, listening with willing ears, and he captures their thoughts and feelings with remarkable sympathy. As Coles demonstrates in this fascinating work, children learn much more than we think they do about political issues. While we have always taken it for granted that parents teach their children about language, religion, and morality, Coles shows how mothers and fathers also instill a strong understanding of political life in their offspring. |
Contents
Political Authority and the Young | 19 |
The Homeland Psychoanalysis and the Political Thought of Children | 51 |
Religion and Nationalism Northern Ireland | 77 |
Ideology and Nationalism Nicaragua | 138 |
Language Culture and Nationalism French Canada and Poland | 158 |
Race and Nationalism South Africa | 178 |
Class and Nationalism Brazil and the United States | 223 |
Exile and Nationalism Children of Southeast Asia | 258 |
Political Morality The Hard Dream of Survival | 289 |
Notes | 309 |
Index | 327 |
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