Download or read book Children And Social Competence written by Ian Hutchby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A text which addresses the relationship between childhood, competence and the social arenas of action in which children live their lives. Taking issue with the view that children are merely apprentice adults, the contributors develop a picture of children as competent, sophisticated social agents, focusing on the contexts which both enable and constrain that competence.