{"product_id":"i-see-a-child-by-cindy-herbert","title":"'I See a Child' by Cindy Herbert","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eI See a Child\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinary piece of radical educational publishing from the early 1970s.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eIts subject is the manufacture of a socially acceptable person. Parents, school, class, gender and the demand to succeed appear not as abstract institutions but as voices lodged inside the child: \u003cem\u003eexpectations create roles\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eparents don’t know how you hurt\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003ea man must live up to his responsibilities\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAgainst these commands are apology, shame, resistance and the child’s effort to identify what they actually feel beneath what they have been told to become.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHerbert constructs this quite intense book through photographs, enlarged fragments of speech and sharply arranged typography, allowing a child’s fear, anger, confusion and self-consciousness to occupy the page at full scale.The design makes this conflict physical—language crowds, repeats, changes size and breaks across images, turning the page into a psychological environment rather than a neutral container.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished as the first volume in the Learning About Learning Educational Foundation series, this is both a period artefact and a striking precursor to later work on childhood, institutional power and alternative education. It belongs near radical pedagogy, photobooks and artist publications more than conventional educational theory: strange, confrontational and formally alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, Anchor Press\/Doubleday, 1974. Large-format paperback with substantial edge and spine wear, rubbing and surface marks; binding intact and interior clean.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45910633676883,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-08-05T125059.272.png?v=1785898328","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/i-see-a-child-by-cindy-herbert","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}