Early childhood, Aging and the Life Cycle: Mapping Common Ground is a book about human development that maps the common ground between early childhood and the period that sociologists call “young-old age.” Emphasing the continuities that bind children and adults rather than on the developmental differences that traditional psychologists claim separate us, Jonathan Silin focuses on the themes we all manage across a lifetime.
Writing as a seasoned early childhood educator and gay man, Jonathan Silin uses memoir and story to argue 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. Whether we focus on children with their lives before them or on the already long-lived, we also see people more like ourselves, less the other.
Early Childhood, Aging and the Life Span is a book about loss and recovery, highlighting 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. It will be of interest to educators, psychologists, sociologists, gerontologists, and everyone in the “helping professions.”
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