Children as disciplinary problems  | No Comments The readings
for this week were inspired by my interest in the (often
troubling) link between children and troublemaking. Why is
troublemaking so frequently read and dismissed as a childish
activity? What does this move suggest about children as moral
and political agents/critical thinkers? How is this move used to
discredit troublemakers? How is troublemaking understood as
something that one grows out of as they grow up? When they are
more mature (more serious)? How is this disdain for the
troublemaker reflected in kids' books (like The Book of Time
Outs)? I have written about this a lot on my blog. Here are just
a few examples:  A Disciplinary Problem? the unruly child as
troublemaker Teaching kids to value troublemaking The book of
time outs, part ii The time-out as a liminal space of
possibility?  And here is what I wrote about J Butler,
troublemaking and ethics in this entry:  But, even as scholars
have begun to think about ethics and Butler, their attenti