Children Framing Childhoods: Working-Class Kids’ Visions of Care

Based on a unique longitudinal study and offering a critical visual methodology of ‘collaborative seeing’, this book shows how a diverse community of young people in Worcester, MA used cameras at different ages to capture the centrality of care in their lives, homes and classrooms.

Urban educational research, practice and policy is preoccupied with problems, brokenness, stigma and blame. As a result, too many people are unable to recognise the capacities and desires of children and youth growing up in working-class and immigrant communities.

This truly unique book enables children to be the authors of their own narratives and issue an explicit challenge to the dominant deficit and damage-based ways of seeing working-class childhoods.