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Asian Children's Literature and Film in a Global Age - Local, National, and Transnational Trajectories (Paperback, 1st ed.... Asian Children's Literature and Film in a Global Age - Local, National, and Transnational Trajectories (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Bernard Wilson, Sharmani Patricia Gabriel
R4,125 Discovery Miles 41 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume provides a key analysis of Asian children's literature and film and creates a dialogue between East and West and between the cultures from which they emerge, within the complex symbiosis of their local, national and transnational frameworks. In terms of location and content the book embraces a broad scope, including contributions related to the Asian-American diaspora, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan. Individually and collectively, these essays broach crucial questions: What elements of Asian literature and film make them distinctive, both within their own specific culture and within the broader Asian area? What aspects link them to these genres in other parts of the world? How have they represented and shaped the societies and cultures they inhabit? What moral codes do they address, underpin, or contest? The volume provides further voice to the increasingly diverse and fascinating output of the region and emphasises the importance of Asian art forms as depictions of specific cultures but also of their connection to broader themes in children's texts, and scholarship within this field.

Children's Film in the Digital Age - Essays on Audience, Adaptation and Consumer Culture (Paperback): Karin Beeler, Stan... Children's Film in the Digital Age - Essays on Audience, Adaptation and Consumer Culture (Paperback)
Karin Beeler, Stan Beeler
R1,102 R912 Discovery Miles 9 120 Save R190 (17%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Children's Film in the Digital Age: Essays on Audience, Adaptation and Consumer Culture consists of essays by scholars who engage in the interpretation of American and international films produced for and about children. Divided into sections that focus on multiple audiences, film adaptation as well as nationalism, globalism and consumer culture, this volume explores how children's film must be re-examined alongside recent developments in the production of film for young cinephiles. These analyses of recent children's films take into account the effect of multi-media strategies on the child audience and the role of participatory opportunities and their pedagogical implications. Essays in this collection also address how childhood is inscribed within film and linked to various national/cultural and consumer contexts. Films over the last fifteen years, which have been released in a multiplicity of formats, reflect a reconceptualization of film genres, audiences and the impact of technological advances upon adaptation.

Special Problems in Counseling the Chemically Dependent Adolescent (Paperback): Eileen S Sweet Special Problems in Counseling the Chemically Dependent Adolescent (Paperback)
Eileen S Sweet
R760 Discovery Miles 7 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Here is a valuable book to help professionals provide the most successful treatment for chemically dependent teenagers by examining the special conditions associated with adolescent chemical dependency. Counselors with experience in treating alcoholism and substance abuse need to have an awareness of the distinctive problems of adolescent chemical dependence that are related to their developmental nature. Such complicated problems as sexual abuse, eating disorders, addictive gambling, and membership in cults are discussed in their relationship to the treatment of the adolescent substance abuser. Special cases of the mentally impaired adolescent and the relapsing chemically dependent adolescent are also discussed in this remarkable volume. Treatment professionals will find encouragement for their work with adolescent clients in Special Problems in Counseling the Chemically Dependent Adolescent, which approaches counseling from a holistic perspective and perceives the family structure as an agent of change. The comprehensive chapters create a better understanding of the different addictions that affect the adolescent population and the pertinent factors that complicate the treatment of chemical addiction. The correlation between chemical abuse and child abuse in families is examined and strategies for treating adolescents suffering from chemical abuse and gambling addiction are suggested. A study of eating disorders among adolescents demonstrates the similarities in the etiology, treatment, and assessment of anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive eating, and the conditions resulting in chemical dependency. Experienced professionals counseling and working with adolescents will be able to provide more efficient treatment to their clients by utilizing the practical suggestions presented in this important book.

Growing Up Global - Economic Restructuring and Children's Everyday Lives (Paperback, Revised): Cindi Katz Growing Up Global - Economic Restructuring and Children's Everyday Lives (Paperback, Revised)
Cindi Katz
R665 Discovery Miles 6 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Brilliant and intimate. The book is an eloquent rendition of the expansive spatial abstractions and mimetic revolutionary re-imagination it proposes." -"Social and Cultural Geography"
"Growing Up Global" examines the processes of development and global change through the perspective of children's lives in two seemingly disparate places: New York City and a village in northern Sudan. At the book's core is a longitudinal ethnographic study of children growing up in a Sudanese village that was included in a large state-sponsored agricultural program in the year they were born. It follows a small number of children intermittently from ten years of age to early adulthood, concentrating particularly on their work and play, which together trained the children for an agrarian life centered around the family, a life that was quickly becoming obsolete.
Shifting her focus to largely working-class families in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s, Katz is able to expose unsuspected connections with the Sudanese experience in the effects on children of a constantly changing, capitalist environment--the decline of manufacturing jobs and the increase in knowledge-based jobs--in which young people with few skills and stunted educations face bleak employment prospects. In teasing out how "development" transforms the grounds on which these young people come of age, Cindi Katz provides a textured analysis of the importance of knowledge in the ability of people, families, and communities to reproduce themselves and their material social practices over time.

Kinderculture - The Corporate Construction of Childhood (Paperback, 3rd edition): Shirley R. ) Steinberg Kinderculture - The Corporate Construction of Childhood (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Shirley R. ) Steinberg
R1,466 Discovery Miles 14 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

America is a corporatized society defined by a culture of consumerism, and the youth market is one of the groups that corporations target most. By marketing directly to children, through television, movies, radio, video games, toys, books, and fast food, advertisers have produced a "kinderculture." In this eye-opening book, editor Shirley R. Steinberg reveals the profound impact that our purchasing-obsessed culture has on our children and argues that the experience of childhood has been reshaped into something that is prefabricated.
Analyzing the pervasive influence of these corporate productions, top experts in the fields of education, sociology, communications, and cultural studies contribute incisive essays that students, parents, educators, and general readers will find insightful and entertaining. Including seven new chapters, this third edition is thoroughly updated with examinations of the icons that shape the values and consciousness of today's children, including "Twilight, True Blood, " and vampires, hip hop, "Hannah Montana, " Disney, and others.

Archetype - A Natural History of the Self (Paperback, 1st Paperback Ed): Anthony Stevens Archetype - A Natural History of the Self (Paperback, 1st Paperback Ed)
Anthony Stevens
R1,330 Discovery Miles 13 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

C.G. Jung's "archetypes of the collective unconscious" have until now remained the property of analytical psychology, and been commonly dismissed as mystical by scientists. But Jung himself described them as biological entities, which have evolved through natural selection, and which, if they exist at all, must be amenable to empirical study. In the work of Bowlby and Lorenz, and in the recent studies of the bilateral brain, Dr Anthony Stevens has discovered the key to opening up this long-ignored scientific approach to the archetype, originally envisaged by Jung himself. Through the cross-fertilisation of disciplines, psychiatry can be integrated with psychology, with ethology and biology. The result is an enriched science of human behaviour.

Child Trafficking, Youth Labour Mobility and the Politics of Protection (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017): Neil Howard Child Trafficking, Youth Labour Mobility and the Politics of Protection (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Neil Howard
R4,102 Discovery Miles 41 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides the first overarching, empirically grounded, critical analysis of child trafficking as an idea, ordering principle, and artefact of politics. It examines (once) hegemonic anti-child trafficking discourse, policy and practice, and does so by placing secondary literature from around the world in conversation the author's paradigmatic case study of the situation in southern Benin. It deconstructs the child trafficking paradigm, contrasts it with 'real' histories of child and youth labour and mobility, and seeks to explain it by going 'inside' the anti-trafficking field. In doing so, Howard tells a gripping story of ideology at work.

London's Forgotten Children - Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital (Paperback): Gillian Pugh London's Forgotten Children - Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital (Paperback)
Gillian Pugh; Foreword by Kate Adie
R488 R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Save R45 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In 1739, the London Foundling Hospital opened its doors to take in the abandoned children of the city. It was the culmination of seventeen years of campaigning by Captain Thomas Coram, driven by his horror at seeing children die in the streets. He was supported in his endeavours by a royal charter and by William Hogarth and George Frideric Handel. The Hospital would continue as both home and school for over 215 years, raising thousands of children until they could be apprenticed out. London's Forgotten Children is a fascinating history of the first children's charity, charting the rise of this incredible institution and examining the attitude towards illegitimate children over the years. The story comes alive with the voices of children who grew up in the Hospital, and the concluding, fully updated, account of today's children's charity Coram is an ongoing testament to the vision of its founder.

Contemporary Slavery - Researching Child Domestic Servitude (Paperback): C Nana Derby Contemporary Slavery - Researching Child Domestic Servitude (Paperback)
C Nana Derby
R1,120 Discovery Miles 11 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book investigates child domestic servitude in Ghana, showing the process of the children's recruitment into domestic servitude, revealing their working conditions, and detailing the methods of compensation. It seeks to answer the question of whether child domestic servants are contemporary slaves. The findings show that elite households in Ghana exploit children from rural regions. This is because they have taken advantage of a historical practice that allowed children to live with older members of their extended families and provide domestic services. In return, they are to be given the chance to receive formal education or to learn a trade. The author's research techniques helped overcome the usual methodical difficulties that exclude child domestic servants from mainstream research on child labor exploitation. The author's approach allowed observation of the servants, not as isolated individuals, but as members of groups whose activities influenced their status and life chances. Most of the participants in this research provided vivid and chilling accounts of domestic servitude in Ghana. The book provides a glimpse of the contemporary slavery that is present in Ghana today.

Childhood and Tween Girl Culture - Family, Media and Locality (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016): Fiona Macdonald Childhood and Tween Girl Culture - Family, Media and Locality (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Fiona Macdonald
R1,767 Discovery Miles 17 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the ways in which notions of childhood are being influenced by a rapidly expanding consumer-media culture in the 21st Century. It has been argued that new stages of childhood are being created and defined by children's role as consumers. The concept of 'tween', girls aged between 9 and 14, has generated the greatest debate. While the fantasy world of 'tween' offers girls a space to fashion a young, feminine identity it has been widely argued that the consumer-media's messages pressure tween girls to consume and adopt highly sexualised appearances and behaviours. The author considers how the art of consumption for 'tween' girls is intrinsically linked with their desire for independence and belonging, and how their consumption is interwoven with other important social and cultural influences. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of Childhood and Youth Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminist and Women's Studies and Sociology.

Negotiating Childhoods - Applying a Moral Filter to Children's Everyday Lives (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017): Sam Frankel Negotiating Childhoods - Applying a Moral Filter to Children's Everyday Lives (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Sam Frankel
R2,136 Discovery Miles 21 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book investigates how constructed representations of the child have and continue to restrict children's opportunities to engage in moral discourses, and the implications this has on children's everyday experiences. By considering a moral dimension to both structure and agency, the author focuses on the nature of the images that are used to represent the child and how these sit in contrast to the active and meaning-driven way in which children negotiate their everyday lives. The book therefore argues that 'morality' provides a filter to understand the backdrop for interaction, as well as offering a focus for engaging with the individual as a social agent, acting and reacting in the world around them. Negotiating Childhoods will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, childhood studies, criminology, social work, culture and media studies and philosophy.

Children's Online Behaviour and Safety - Policy and Rights Challenges (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017): Andy Phippen Children's Online Behaviour and Safety - Policy and Rights Challenges (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Andy Phippen
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the use of technology in young people's social lives against a backdrop of "online safety measures" put in place by the UK government to ensure safe and risk free engagement with online services. The UK landscape is used as a case study to compare the grass roots of digital behaviours with attempts by policy makers to control access and prohibit "bad" behaviours. In conducting an analysis of current UK policy positions and media perspectives against ethnographic research in areas such as gaming and sexting, the book highlights the flaws in approaching the control of disruptive social behaviours using prohibitive approaches. It also highlights the gulf between the experiences of young people and the capabilities of the school system to deliver effective education around safe online behaviours. The author illustrates the complex relationship young people have with technology, as active engagers rather than passive consumers, and looks at the ways in which their needs for effective education and resilience are currently not being met. Furthermore, he demonstrates how, in an effort to make them safe, stakeholders are eroding children's fundamental rights. Children's Online Behaviour and Safety will be of interest to scholars, practitioners and students researching and practicing in education, sociology, children's law, children's digital rights and social policy.

Assessing Child Survival Programs - A Test of Lot Quality Assurance Sampling in a Developing Country (Paperback, New): Joseph... Assessing Child Survival Programs - A Test of Lot Quality Assurance Sampling in a Developing Country (Paperback, New)
Joseph Valadez
R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America public health professionals and paraprofessionals work to control serious, frequent and preventable causes of death and sickness among women and children. Despite international agreement about which health programs to implement and huge investments to support them, avoidable deaths remain high. One reason is the inadequate quality with which programs are implemented.

"Assessing Child Survival Programs in Developing Countries" provides local health system managers with basic principles for rapid precise program monitoring and evaluation in difficult tropical conditions. Joseph Valadez explains how to adapt Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) as used in industrial quality control more than half a century ago, to assess health program coverage and technical quality of service providers. He shows that by examining no more than 19 children from a health facility catchment area a manager can judge whether coverage with child survival interventions has reached a minimal level, and how to observe health workers perform a task 6 times to judge their technical competency.

Joseph Valadez demonstrates that quick assessment is not necessarily dirty, and can provide the information needed to enhance child survival throughout the developing world. In that spirit "Assessing Child Survival Programs in Developing Countries" is a path breaking text book of modern health services research that both practitioners and students will find indispensable and understandable.

Uprooted - The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917 (Book): Roy Parker Uprooted - The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917 (Book)
Roy Parker
R2,328 Discovery Miles 23 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Some 80,000 British children - many of them under the age of ten - were shipped from Britain to Canada by Poor Law authorities and voluntary bodies during the 50 years following Confederation in 1867. How did this come about? What were the motives and methods of the people involved in both countries? Why did it come to an end? What effects did it have on the children involved and what eventually became of them? These are the questions Roy Parker explores in a meticulously researched work that brings together economic, political, social, medical, legal, administrative and religious aspects of the story in Britain and Canada.He concludes with a moving review of evidence from more recent survivors of child migration, discussing the lifelong effects of their experiences with the help of modern psychological insights. His book - humane and highly professional - will capture and hold the interest of many: the academic, the practitioner and the general reader; and they will include the relatives and descendants, both in Britain and Canada, of the children around whom this study revolves.

Children and Screen Media in Changing Arab Contexts - An Ethnographic Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Tarik Sabry,... Children and Screen Media in Changing Arab Contexts - An Ethnographic Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Tarik Sabry, Nisrine Mansour
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Using a phenomenological and multi-sited ethnographic approach, this book focuses on children's uses of digital media in three sites-London, Casablanca and Beirut-and situates the study of Arab children and screen media within a wider frame, making connections between local, regional and global media content. The study moves away from a conventional definition of media towards a pluralistic interpretation, and provides key ethnographic findings that reveal how the notion of home is extended across everyday spaces that children occupy. Exploring the relationship between children and media outside of the subject-object hierarchy, it re-connects them in a horizontal mapping of affectivity and intimacy. This book will appeal to scholars specializing in children and the media, digital media, media and cultural studies, media anthropology, philosophy and Middle Eastern studies.

Raising Germans in the Age of Empire - Youth and Colonial Culture, 1871-1914 (Hardcover): Jeff Bowersox Raising Germans in the Age of Empire - Youth and Colonial Culture, 1871-1914 (Hardcover)
Jeff Bowersox
R3,365 Discovery Miles 33 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Raising Germans in the Age of Empire is a cultural history of the German colonial imagination around the turn of the twentieth century. Looking beyond the colonialist movement, it focuses on young Germans who grew up during this era and the various commercial and educational media through which they daily encountered the wider world. Using their imaginary colonial encounters, Jeff Bowersox explores how Germans young and old came to terms with a globalizing world. Chapters on toys, school instruction, popular literature, and the Boy Scouts (or Pfadfinder) reveal how Germans, through mass consumer culture and mass education, built a definitive association between colonial hierarchies and Germany's place in the modern age. By 1914 this colonial sensibility had been accepted as common sense, but it always remained flexible and vague. It could be adapted to serve competing and contradictory purposes, ranging from profit and pedagogical reform to nationalist mobilization and international socialist solidarity. Thus, as young Germans used images of imperialism to construct their own fantastical adventures, adults tried to use those same images to ward off the worst excesses of industrial modernity and to mold young people into capable and productive citizens. The result was a chaotic multitude of imagined empires vying for space in the public arena as Germans debated how best to raise the next generation of children. Raising Germans in the Age of Empire explains how colonial visions not only shaped Germans' engagement with globalization but also determined how they understood themselves as a modern nation.

Discovering Childhood in International Relations (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020): J. Marshall Beier Discovering Childhood in International Relations (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
J. Marshall Beier
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines how and why, in the context of International Relations, children's subjecthood has all too often been relegated to marginal terrains and children themselves automatically associated with the need for protection in vulnerable situations: as child soldiers, refugees, and conflated with women, all typically with the accent on the Global South. Challenging us to think critically about childhood as a technology of global governance, the authors explore alternative ways of finding children and their agency in a more central position in IR, in terms of various forms of children's activism, children and climate change, children and security, children and resilience, and in their inevitable role in governing the future. Focusing on the problems, pitfalls, promises, and prospects of addressing children and childhoods in International Relations, this book places children more squarely in the purview of political subjecthood and hence more centrally in IR.

Unaccompanied Young Migrants - Identity, Care and Justice (Hardcover): Sandra Gifford, Hilde Liden, Luis Gonzalez-Araiza,... Unaccompanied Young Migrants - Identity, Care and Justice (Hardcover)
Sandra Gifford, Hilde Liden, Luis Gonzalez-Araiza, Louise Drammeh, Sheona York, …
R3,017 R2,309 Discovery Miles 23 090 Save R708 (23%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Taking a multi-disciplinary perspective, and one grounded in human rights, Unaccompanied young migrants explores in-depth the journeys migrant youths take through the UK legal and care systems. Arriving with little agency, what becomes of these children as they grow and assume new roles and identities, only to risk losing legal protection as they reach eighteen? Through international studies and crucially the voices of the young migrants themselves, the book examines the narratives they present and the frameworks of culture and legislation into which they are placed. It challenges existing policy and questions, from a social justice perspective, what the treatment of this group tells us about our systems and the cultural presuppositions on which they depend.

Understanding Research with Children and Young People (Hardcover, New): Alison Clark, Rosie Flewitt, Martyn Hammersley, Martin... Understanding Research with Children and Young People (Hardcover, New)
Alison Clark, Rosie Flewitt, Martyn Hammersley, Martin Robb
R4,369 Discovery Miles 43 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How do views about children shape research concerned with their lives? What different forms can research with children take? What ethical issues does it involve? How does it impact on policy and practice, and on the lives of children themselves? This book helps you to understand how research is designed and carried out to explore questions about the lives of children and young people. It tackles the methodological, practical and ethical challenges involved, and features examples of actual research that illustrate: Different strategies for carrying out research Common challenges that arise in the research process Varying modes of engagement that researchers can adopt with participants and audiences; and The impact that research can have on future studies, policy and practice.

Young Children's Personal, Social and Emotional Development (Hardcover, 4th Revised edition): Marion Dowling Young Children's Personal, Social and Emotional Development (Hardcover, 4th Revised edition)
Marion Dowling
R2,949 Discovery Miles 29 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Young children's personal, social and emotional development is an area of ever-increasing interest to those working in the field of early childhood. This fully revised fourth edition of Marion Dowling's much-loved book has been updated to include: Current policies and frameworks, up-to-date research references and revised case studies Coverage of Troubled Families and 'Vulnerable Children', with sections on identifying risk, talking to families and safeguarding and protection A revised final chapter considering different methods of supporting children Updated links to EYFS and Teaching Standards (Early Years} and a focus on two year olds New guidance for working with parents Online material including links to journal articles and a video interview with the author With thought-provoking questions and practical suggestions to help readers to reflect on and develop their own practice, this book is essential reading for all Early Years students and practitioners.

Let's Play House - Inspirational Living With Kids (Hardcover): ,Joni Vandewalle Let's Play House - Inspirational Living With Kids (Hardcover)
,Joni Vandewalle
R769 Discovery Miles 7 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house" - Julie Bowen - Modern Family Whoever welcomes children says goodbye to a tidy and perfectly-styled house. Babies and children grow and develop through play, and that means lots of toys. This can create chaos and sometimes less attractive corners in the home that are expertly hidden, moved, or simply ignored in most residential magazines. Lifestyle journalist and young mother Joni Vandewalle knows that a messy house, where children can play freely, is a happy house. Creating children's rooms for optimal use is a challenging job, but one that is immensely rewarding for the whole family. In this book, she has selected 20 houses where clutter creates atmosphere, and where colourful play spaces and creative storage solutions prioritise activities where children can grow and play. This book is full of design inspiration for all parents and parents-to-be.

No Time To Lose - The Wellbeing of Australia's Children (Paperback, Print on Demand ed.): Sue Richardson, Margot Prior No Time To Lose - The Wellbeing of Australia's Children (Paperback, Print on Demand ed.)
Sue Richardson, Margot Prior
R1,634 R1,310 Discovery Miles 13 100 Save R324 (20%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This work is a landmark investigation of the state of children's wellbeing in Australia, with contributions from Sue Richardson, Margot Prior, Steve Zubrick, Sven Silburn, Janet McCalman, Johanna Wyn and more. In ""No Time to Lose"", leading Australian scholars investigate the consequences for children of changes in work patterns and the job market, marriage breakdown, higher educational expectations, community breakdown, and the growing divide between those who have and haven't benefited from the nation's increased prosperity. They reflect on the community's responsibility for children, and on the lessons of history, then critically asses what needs to be done to enable our children to look to the future with optimism.

European Fairy Tales from the Renaissance to the Late Victorian Era - The Child of the Fairy Tale (Hardcover, New edition):... European Fairy Tales from the Renaissance to the Late Victorian Era - The Child of the Fairy Tale (Hardcover, New edition)
Mehrdad F. Samadzadeh
R2,339 Discovery Miles 23 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the interplay of childhood and the fairy tale as they both changed character in accordance with the historical transformations of the mid-nineteenth century. While the fairy tale was instrumental in the social construction of childhood, the latter for its part played an equally crucial role in altering the narrative structure of the fairy tale. So viewed, the story of childhood is closely intertwined with the fairy tale, and both with modernity as it changed its focus with the changing direction of the civilizing process. The liberating potential of modernity emerges when a broad spectrum of the marginalized, including children, begin to assert themselves and gain recognition as independent subjects of historical inquiry.

Dragon Gate (Hardcover): Kangmin Zeng Dragon Gate (Hardcover)
Kangmin Zeng
R5,626 Discovery Miles 56 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This text examines the enormous pressure placed on University students in Japan, Korea and Taiwan which have led to the rapid expansion of the "cramming" industry and to a growing number of students looking to religion and spirituality for guidance. The book examines the issue of the rise in youth suicides, and the dramatic rise in levels of cheating; both raising fundamental questions about the education system in the late 1990s.

Urban Ecology - A Natural Way to Transform Kids, Parks, Cities, and the World (Paperback): Ken Leinbach Urban Ecology - A Natural Way to Transform Kids, Parks, Cities, and the World (Paperback)
Ken Leinbach; Foreword by Peter Senge
R434 R394 Discovery Miles 3 940 Save R40 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With climate change in the news, an urban core that has reached boiling point, and many children growing up without role models and with limited dreams, where is hope? There is a quiet experiment in Milwaukee that is turning heads. It starts with the simplicity of getting a city kid exploring their neighborhood park. How is it that so much life, community, and opportunity can grow from this unlikely soil? It's been called a miracle. It's contagious. It's spreading. It's exciting. And it works! This is the story of a group of ordinary people in a neighborhood who created something extraordinary. Readers will discover... the power of getting a city kid outside in nature; that kindness does work; how to say no while following the yes; the value of clarity and focus; how to find abundance within their own diverse community by simply and humbly asking for help; ten tried and tested rules for raising money (a lot of it!) while having a ton of fun doing it; a positive, believable, and very real vision for the future of the environment (we've got this!); and... how to join the Urban Ecology movement.

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