Do Children still need to Escape Childhood? A Reassessment of John Holt and his Vision for Children's Rights

The work of children’s liberationists have been long been critiqued for pushing the parameters of rights discourse too far; specifically, by suggesting that there are no significant differences between children and adults, including their ability for self-determination. John Holt’s 1974 text Escape from Childhood is one such work which was deemed highly controversial for its time. This article uses Holt’s Escape from Childhood as an overarching framework against which to examine the current state of play on children’s rights as explicated through the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It suggests that whilst Holt has often been critiqued for being too radical, in the context of current children’s rights discourse Holt’s visioning is not as radical as it might first appear.

Previsão de diagramas de carga via Holt-Winters com três sazonalidades

Dissertação para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Electrotécnica Ramo de Energia

Emotions and the habitus: Young people with socio-emotional differences (re)producing social, emotional and cultural capital in family and leisure space-times

In this paper we explore the importance of emotionally inter-dependent relationships to the functioning of embodied social capital and habitus. Drawing upon the experiences of young people with socio-emotional differences, we demonstrate how emotionally inter-dependent and relatively nurturing relationships are integral to the acquisition of social capital and to the co-construction and embodiment of habitus. The young people presented in this paper often had difficulties in forging social relationships and in acquiring symbolic and cultural capital in school spaces. However, we outline how these young people (re)produce and embody alternative kinds of habitus, based on emotionally reciprocal relationships forged through formal and informal leisure activities and familial and fraternal social relationships. These alternative forms of habitus provide sites of subjection, scope for acquiring social and cultural capital and a positive sense of identity in the face of problematic relations and experiences in school spaces.

Bridie McCarthy reviews Yvette Holt, Javant Biarujia and Martin Harrison

Book review of three books of Australian poetry

Ministerielle Reichsorgel: Orgelspieler: I kann holt ka Harmonie rausbringen ...

Welsch (Projektbearbeiter): Karikatur auf die der Frankfurter Nationalversammlung zuwiderlaufende Politik Friedrich Wilhelms IV. von Preußen: der den Blasebalg tretende und dabei Champagner trinkende König zwingt dem Orgelspieler (Erzherzog Johann) eine wenig harmonische Partitur mit dem Titel "Wir lassen halt Alles beim Alten" auf. Im Hintergrund führende Paulskirchenabgeordnete (u.a. Gagern und Robert Blum) als willenlose Orgelpfeifen

Letter from William Croswell to the Mr. Holt, 1824 May 10

Draft of a letter complaining about the noisiness of Holt's students.

Letter from William Croswell to the Mr. Holt, [1824] September 30

Draft of a letter complaining about the noisiness of Holt's students.

A volume of verses : prepared for presentation to his friends as a small acknowledgement of their claim to the affection and esteem of H.D. Holt. Jersey City, January 1, 1875.

Mode of access: Internet.