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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Children

A Clinician's Brief Guide to Children's Mental Health Law (Paperback): Sarah Huline-Dickens A Clinician's Brief Guide to Children's Mental Health Law (Paperback)
Sarah Huline-Dickens
R567 R524 Discovery Miles 5 240 Save R43 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A practical guide for clinicians working with children and young people under the age of eighteen that focuses on essential elements of children's mental health law, a complex area that is often poorly understood.

The Economics of Child Labour in the Era of Globalization - Policy issues (Paperback): Sarbajit Chaudhuri, Jayanta Kumar Dwibedi The Economics of Child Labour in the Era of Globalization - Policy issues (Paperback)
Sarbajit Chaudhuri, Jayanta Kumar Dwibedi
R1,261 Discovery Miles 12 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Children in poor countries are subjected to exploitation characterized by low wages and long hours of work, as well as by unclean, unhygienic and unsafe working and living conditions, and, more importantly, by deprivation from education, all of which hampers their physical and mental development. Child labour is a complex issue, and clearly it has no simple solution. This book sheds some understanding of its root causes. The book attempts to delve into many of the important theoretical aspects of child labour and suggests policies that could indeed be useful in dealing with the problem under diverse situations using alternative multisector general equilibrium models.

Childhood, Family, Alcohol (Paperback): Mark Jayne, Gill Valentine Childhood, Family, Alcohol (Paperback)
Mark Jayne, Gill Valentine
R1,249 Discovery Miles 12 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Drawing together international research from the fields of geography, alcohol studies, sociology, psychology and childhood studies, Jayne and Valentine explore children's understandings and experiences of alcohol consumption and the role of alcohol in family life. Chapters address both extra-familialnorms about parenting and drinking cultures which are generated in wider society (through law/regulation, media/advertising and social networks etc.) and intra-familialnorms including the modelling behaviour of family members attitudes to alcohol, drinking habits and practices, rules and guidance, and initiating children to drinking. Based on empirical research undertaken in the UK, and drawing on studies from around the world, Childhood, Family, Alcohol advances theoretical debates and offers insights relevant to policy and practice by: * adopting a cross-generational perspective on drinking cultures * exploring pre-teen children's understandings of alcohol * focusing on the significance of the spaces of everyday family life * considering adult alcohol consumption, drinking practices and drunken performativities * reflecting on social/individualized consumption, social reproduction, adult-children interaction and materialities * showing the importance of non-(and more-than) representational understanding of the complexities of childhood, family life and alcohol consumption.

Childhood Traumas - Narratives and Representations (Hardcover): Kamayani Kumar, Angelie Multani Childhood Traumas - Narratives and Representations (Hardcover)
Kamayani Kumar, Angelie Multani
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume contributes to understanding childhoods in the twentieth and twenty-firstcentury by offering an in-depth overview of children and their engagement with the violent world around them. The chapters deal with different historical, spatial, and cultural contexts, yet converge on the question of how children relate to physiological and psychological violence. The twentieth century has been hailed as the "century of the child" but it has also witnessed an unprecedented escalation of cultural trauma experienced by children during the two World Wars, Holocaust, Partition of the Indian subcontinent, and Vietnam War. The essays in this volume focus on victimized childhood during instances of war, ethnic violence, migration under compulsion, rape, and provide insights into how a child negotiates with abstract notions of nation, ethnicity, belonging, identity, and religion. They use an array of literary and cinematic representations-fiction, paintings, films, and popular culture-to explore the long-term effect of violence and neglect on children. As such, they lend voice to children whose experiences of abuse have been multifaceted, ranging from genocide, conflict and xenophobia to sexual abuse, and also consider ways of healing. With contributions from across the world, this comprehensive book will be useful to scholars and researchers of cultural studies, literature, education, education policy, gender studies, child psychology, sociology, political studies, childhood studies, and those studying trauma, conflict, and resilience.

Raising a Rare Girl (Paperback): Heather Lanier Raising a Rare Girl (Paperback)
Heather Lanier
R450 R374 Discovery Miles 3 740 Save R76 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"A remarkable book . . . I found myself thinking that all expectant and new parents should read it." -Michelle Slater A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In Raising a Rare Girl, Lanier explores how to defy the tyranny of normal and embrace parenthood as a spiritual practice that breaks us open in the best of ways. Like many women of her generation, when Heather Lanier was expecting her first child she did everything by the book in the hope that she could create a SuperBaby, a supremely healthy human destined for a high-achieving future. But her daughter Fiona challenged all of Lanier's preconceptions. Born with an ultra-rare syndrome known as Wolf-Hirschhorn, Fiona received a daunting prognosis: she would experience significant developmental delays and might not reach her second birthday. The diagnosis obliterated Lanier's perfectionist tendencies, along with her most closely held beliefs about certainty, vulnerability, God, and love. With tiny bits of mozzarella cheese, a walker rolled to library story time, a talking iPad app, and a whole lot of pop and reggae, mother and daughter spend their days doing whatever it takes to give Fiona nourishment, movement, and language. Loving Fiona opens Lanier up to new understandings of what it means to be human, what it takes to be a mother, and above all, the aching joy and wonder that come from embracing the unique life of her rare girl.

Childhood and Adversity - Psychological Perspectives from South African Research (Paperback): Andrew Dawes, David Donald Childhood and Adversity - Psychological Perspectives from South African Research (Paperback)
Andrew Dawes, David Donald
R275 R236 Discovery Miles 2 360 Save R39 (14%) Ships in 15 - 25 working days
Protecting and Safeguarding Children in Schools - A Multi-Agency Approach (Paperback): Mary Baginsky, Jenny Driscoll, Carl... Protecting and Safeguarding Children in Schools - A Multi-Agency Approach (Paperback)
Mary Baginsky, Jenny Driscoll, Carl Purcell, Jill Manthorpe, Ben Hickman
R711 Discovery Miles 7 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Schools play a vital role in safeguarding children and young people, yet there has been little research into how schools identify and respond to child protection concerns, and their engagement with local authority children's services. This book highlights the findings of a major ESRC-funded study on the child protection role played by schools, their decision-making processes and involvement in inter-agency working. Crucial reading for academics, practitioners and managers in children's social care and education, it evaluates the impact of recent policy developments, including the Academies and Free Schools programme, as well as the restructuring of local authority children's services.

Children and Globalization - Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Hardcover): Hoda Mahmoudi, Steven Mintz Children and Globalization - Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Hardcover)
Hoda Mahmoudi, Steven Mintz
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Globalization has carried vast consequences for the lives of children. It has spurred unprecedented waves of immigration, contributed to far-reaching transformations in the organization, structure, and dynamics of family life, and profoundly altered trajectories of growing up. Equally important, globalization has contributed to the world-wide dissemination of a set of international norms about children's welfare and heightened public awareness of disparities in the lives of children around the world. This book's contributors - leading historians, literary scholars, psychologists, social geographers, and others - provide fresh perspectives on the transformations that globalization has produced in children's lives.

Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain (Hardcover): Gabriel Moshenska Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain (Hardcover)
Gabriel Moshenska
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How do children cope when their world is transformed by war? This book draws on memory narratives to construct an historical anthropology of childhood in Second World Britain, focusing on objects and spaces such as gas masks, air raid shelters and bombed-out buildings. In their struggles to cope with the fears and upheavals of wartime, with families divided and familiar landscapes lost or transformed, children reimagined and reshaped these material traces of conflict into toys, treasures and playgrounds. This study of the material worlds of wartime childhood offers a unique viewpoint into an extraordinary period in history with powerful resonances across global conflicts into the present day.

Children's Work in African Agriculture - The Harmful and the Harmless (Paperback): Abdulai Abubakari, Felix Asante, Inka... Children's Work in African Agriculture - The Harmful and the Harmless (Paperback)
Abdulai Abubakari, Felix Asante, Inka Barnett, Imogen Bellwood-Howard, Rosilin Bock, …
R728 Discovery Miles 7 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Millions of children throughout Africa undertake many forms of farm and domestic work. Some of this work is for wages, some is on their family's own small plots and some is forced and/or harmful. This book examines children's involvement in such work. It argues that framing all children's engagement in economic activity as 'child labour', with all the associated negative connotations, is problematic. This is particularly the case in Africa where many rural children must work to survive and where, the contributors argue, much of the work undertaken is not harmful. The conceptual and case-based chapters reframe the debate about children's work and harm in rural Africa with the aim of shifting research, public discourse and policy so that they better serve the interest of rural children and their families.

The 'Poor Child' - The cultural politics of education, development and childhood (Paperback): Lucy Hopkins, Arathi... The 'Poor Child' - The cultural politics of education, development and childhood (Paperback)
Lucy Hopkins, Arathi Sriprakash
R1,353 Discovery Miles 13 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Why are development discourses of the 'poor child' in need of radical revision? What are the theoretical and methodological challenges and possibilities for ethical understandings of childhoods and poverty? The 'poor child' at the centre of development activity is often measured against and reformed towards an idealised and globalised child subject. This book examines why such normative discourses of childhood are in need of radical revision and explores how development research and practice can work to 'unsettle' the global child. It engages the cultural politics of childhood - a politics of equality, identity and representation - as a methodological and theoretical orientation to rethink the relationships between education, development, and poverty in children's lives. This book brings multiple disciplinary perspectives, including cultural studies, sociology, and film studies, into conversation with development studies and development education in order to provide new ways of approaching and conceptualising the 'poor child'. The researchers draw on a range of methodological frames - such as poststructuralist discourse analysis, arts based research, ethnographic studies and textual analysis - to unpack the hidden assumptions about children within development discourses. Chapters in this book reveal the diverse ways in which the notion of childhood is understood and enacted in a range of national settings, including Kenya, India, Mexico and the United Kingdom. They explore the complex constitution of children's lives through cultural, policy, and educational practices. The volume's focus on children's experiences and voices shows how children themselves are challenging the representation and material conditions of their lives. The 'Poor Child' will be of particular interest to postgraduate students and scholars working in the fields of childhood studies, international and comparative education, and development studies.

Ages & Stages Questionnaires (R): Social-Emotional (ASQ (R):SE-2): Quick Start Guide (English) - A Parent-Completed Child... Ages & Stages Questionnaires (R): Social-Emotional (ASQ (R):SE-2): Quick Start Guide (English) - A Parent-Completed Child Monitoring System for Social-Emotional Behaviors (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Jane Squires, Diane Bricker, Elizabeth Twombly
R781 Discovery Miles 7 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The ASQ (R):SE-2 Quick Start Guide is a convenient, at-a-glance guide that keeps ASQ:SE-2 scoring and administration basics right at the fingertips. Perfect for busy professionals on the go, this Quick Start Guide is laminated, lightweight, and so cost-effective that every professional in a program can have one (it's sold in a package of 5). ASQ:SE-2 users will turn to the Quick Start Guide for clear, simple directions on selecting the correct questionnaire, scoring ASQ:SE-2, and communicating results to parents. The Quick Start Guide is part of the ASQ:SE-2 screening system. ASQ:SE-2 is the NEW edition of the bestselling screener trusted to uncover possible social-emotional issues as early as possible during the crucial first 6 years of life. The 9 age-appropriate ASQ:SE-2 questionnaires effectively screen 7 key developmental areas: self-regulation, compliance, adaptive functioning, autonomy, affect, social-communication, and interaction with people. The second edition of ASQ:SE-2 has been revised and updated with invaluable new features, including a NEW 2 month questionnaire, an expanded age range, updated cutoff scores, new behavior and communication items, and more updates to help you better support families and promote social-emotional development.

Junior and Youth Grassroots Football Culture - The Forgotten Game (Paperback): Jimmy O'Gorman Junior and Youth Grassroots Football Culture - The Forgotten Game (Paperback)
Jimmy O'Gorman
R1,357 Discovery Miles 13 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Football is ubiquitously acknowledged as 'The Global Game' and/or 'The People's Game' - everyday all-encompassing terms familiar to anyone with an interest in football which illustrate, albeit nebulously, the game's international reach and popularity. Yet much academic and popular attention has been, and continues to be, narrowly centred on topics pertaining to the elite and professional aspects of the game. At a time when there appears to be an ever-widening gap between the grassroots and elite levels of the sport, this book brings together, for the first time, a collection of research articles dedicated solely to youth and junior grassroots football. The intention is to generate future inquiry, encourage theoretical debate and stimulate empirical research on topics and issues within the relatively marginalised area of the game that is youth and junior grassroots football. The collection represents a preliminary consideration of what is already currently known about grassroots football and, no less importantly, point towards what remains unknown and under-researched but which deserves much more attention than has been given hitherto. As such, the collection includes contributions from practitioners and researchers alike. Topics included range from the provision, organisation and development of grassroots football in one national association, to broader issues such as the sources of enjoyment in participation, the lived experiences of junior players and coaches, to the causes of youth dropout from football. In addition, the significance of social stratification and various forms of social division which structure children's participation in grassroots football are discussed. These include female participation and the role of elite female role models, and issues relating to the participation of immigrant youth. The book is intended to appeal to practitioners, academics and football enthusiasts alike. This book was originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.

Child and Youth Well-being in China (Hardcover): Lijun Chen, Qiang Ren, Dali L. Yang, Di Zhou Child and Youth Well-being in China (Hardcover)
Lijun Chen, Qiang Ren, Dali L. Yang, Di Zhou
R1,651 Discovery Miles 16 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The true measure of any society is how it treats its children, who are in turn that society's future. Making use of data from the longitudinal Chinese Family Panel Studies survey, the authors of this timely study provide a multi-faceted description and analysis of China's younger generations. They assess the economic, physical, and social-emotional well-being as well as the cognitive performance and educational attainment of China's children and youth. They pay special attention to the significance of family and community contexts, including the impact of parental absence on millions of left-behind children. Throughout the volume, the authors delineate various forms of disparities, especially the structural inequalities maintained by the Chinese Party-state and the vulnerabilities of children and youth in fragile families and communities. They also analyze the social attitudes and values of Chinese youth. Having grown up in a period of sustained prosperity and greater individual choice, the younger Chinese cohorts are more independent in spirit, more open-minded socially, and significantly less deferential to authority than older cohorts. There is growing recognition in China of the importance of investing in children's future and of helping the less advantaged. Substantial improvements in child and youth well-being have been achieved in a time of growing economic prosperity. Strong political commitment is needed to sustain existing efforts and to overcome the many obstacles that remain. This book will be of considerable interest to researchers of Chinese society and development.

Atlantic Childhoods in Global Contexts (Paperback): Audra Diptee, David Trotman Atlantic Childhoods in Global Contexts (Paperback)
Audra Diptee, David Trotman
R1,357 Discovery Miles 13 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Atlantic Childhoods in Global Contexts explores childhood and youth in the Global South. The term childhood often conjures images of innocence, vulnerability and the need for protection, but this book suggests that, in colonial contexts, these images need to be re-examined. In fact, as the articles in this collection demonstrate, deviance, culpability, and a presumed autonomy were the more popular notions of childhood in the colonial context. These notions were held by the various actors in the colonial drama, not only colonial officials but interestingly enough often by the colonized people themselves. Furthermore, traditional notions of childhood as a period of total dependency are challenged in this collection, as the various authors explore the ways in which children were pro-active agents who shaped notions of childhood and therefore our understanding of the history of childhood. This collection provides in-depth analysis and offers new perspectives on how children were imagined and constructed (both legally and informally) in the colonial context. The contributions cover a broad geographic range that spans the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and India. Each of the authors explore the ways in which the interplay of Atlantic and Global influences shaped young people's experiences, as well as the discourses that were used to articulate concerns about youth. The themes explored in this collection include the pathologization of childhood, juvenile delinquency, cultural creativity, and the use of child labour. The book ends with an interview by Sara Austin of World Vision Canada who discusses the ways in which the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child neglected to include the voices of children until 2014. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents.

New Information Technology in the Education of Disabled Children and Adults (Hardcover): David Hawkridge, Tom Vincent, Gerald... New Information Technology in the Education of Disabled Children and Adults (Hardcover)
David Hawkridge, Tom Vincent, Gerald Hales
R3,339 Discovery Miles 33 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1985. Information technology can offer huge benefits to the disabled. It can help many disabled people to overcome barriers of time and space and to a much greater extent it can help them to overcome barriers of communication. In that way new information technology offers opportunities to neutralise the worst effects of many kinds of disablement. This book reviews the possibilities of using information technology in the education of the disabled. Commencing with an assessment of the learning problems faced by disabled people, it goes on to look at the scope of information technology and how it has been used for the education of students of all ages, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. A penultimate section considers most of the contentious issues that faced users of technology, whilst the conclusion devotes itself to the immediate and longer-term future, suggesting possible future trends and the consequent problems that may arise.

Working with Video Gamers and Games in Therapy - A Clinician's Guide (Hardcover): Anthony M. Bean Working with Video Gamers and Games in Therapy - A Clinician's Guide (Hardcover)
Anthony M. Bean
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Working with Video Gamers and Games in Therapy moves beyond stereotypes about video game addiction and violence to consider the role that games play in psychological experiences and mental health. Chapters examine the factors that compel individual gamers to select and identify with particular games and characters, as well as the different play styles, genres, and archetypes common in video games. For clinicians looking to understand their clients' relationships with video games or to use games as a therapeutic resource in their own practice, this is a thoughtful, comprehensive, and timely resource.

Children's Participation in Global Contexts - Going Beyond Voice (Hardcover): Vicky Johnson, Andy West Children's Participation in Global Contexts - Going Beyond Voice (Hardcover)
Vicky Johnson, Andy West
R3,909 Discovery Miles 39 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Children's and young people's right to participate has been increasingly acknowledged and taken up internationally, as expressed in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet much of this has focused on collecting children's voices, rather than achieving change, and has met its limits. This book provides an analysis of children's participation in formal, collective and action research processes in six different international settings. It offers a deeper understanding of what helps and facilitates children's and young people's participation through research, evaluation and decision-making to go beyond voice and effect change. This analysis is set in the context of historical and current discourses of participation, the sociology of childhood, contemporary anthropology, children's geography and international development. Themes addressed include time and processes in children's participation, shifting and multiple identities of children, political and cultural contexts, places and spaces children inhabit, skills and capacities of adults, accountability and power. The analysis promotes an approach to children's participation as relational and collaborative, and will contribute to answering some of the questions facing practitioners and researchers embarking on participatory enquiry with children and young people. This is an invaluable book for practitioners and for scholars, postgraduates in anthropology, sociology, human geography, childhood studies, development studies, social policy, social work, community work, education, youth work and those with an interest in citizenship, children's rights and human rights. Researchers and practitioners in UN, government and non-government services will also find it applicable to engaging with children and young people.

Refugee Youth - Migration, Justice and Urban Space (Hardcover): Seyma Karamese, Rana Aytug, Anne Grent, Ajay Bailey, Malene... Refugee Youth - Migration, Justice and Urban Space (Hardcover)
Seyma Karamese, Rana Aytug, Anne Grent, Ajay Bailey, Malene Jacobsen, …
R2,228 Discovery Miles 22 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Telling the stories of young refugees in a range of international urban settings, this book explores how newcomers navigate urban spaces and negotiate multiple injustices in their everyday lives. This innovative edited volume is based on in-depth, qualitative research with young refugees and their perspectives on migration, social relations and cultural spaces. The chapters give voice to refugee youth from a wide variety of social backgrounds, including insights about their migration experiences, their negotiations of spatial justice and injustice, and the diverse ways in which they use urban space.

Future Girl - Young Women in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback, New): Anita Harris Future Girl - Young Women in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback, New)
Anita Harris
R1,473 Discovery Miles 14 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Girls are everywhere these days: they rule MTV and the pop charts; they are big box-office draws; they are on the covers of top-selling magazines; and they score the winning points in professional sports. Despite the recent flurry of books exploring girlhood, like Odd Girl Out and The Secret Lives of Girls, these titles mainly tackle the topic of aggression in young women.
Anita Harris, in her new book Future Girl, goes beyond this to create a realistic portrait of the 'new girl' that has appeared in the twenty-first century - she may still play with Barbie, but she is also likely to play soccer or basketball, be assertive and may even be sexually aware, if not active. Building on this new definition, Harris explores the many key areas central to the lives of girls from a global perspective, such as girlspace, schools, work, aggression, sexuality and power.
In an era of girl power and Riot grrls, Future Girl provides a fresh and original perspective on what it means to be young and female at the beginning of the new millennium.

Disabled Childhoods - Monitoring Differences and Emerging Identities (Paperback): Janice McLaughlin, Edmund Coleman-Fountain,... Disabled Childhoods - Monitoring Differences and Emerging Identities (Paperback)
Janice McLaughlin, Edmund Coleman-Fountain, Emma Clavering
R1,474 Discovery Miles 14 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A crucial contemporary dynamic around children and young people in the Global North is the multiple ways that have emerged to monitor their development, behaviour and character. In particular disabled children or children with unusual developmental patterns can find themselves surrounded by multiple practices through which they are examined. This rich book draws on a wide range of qualitative research to look at how disabled children have been cared for, treated and categorised. Narrative and longitudinal interviews with children and their families, along with stories and images they have produced and notes from observations of different spaces in their lives - medical consultation rooms, cafes and leisure centres, homes, classrooms and playgrounds amongst others - all make a contribution. Bringing this wealth of empirical data together with conceptual ideas from disability studies, sociology of the body, childhood studies, symbolic interactionism and feminist critical theory, the authors explore the multiple ways in which monitoring occurs within childhood disability and its social effects. Their discussion includes examining the dynamics of differentiation via medicine, social interaction, and embodiment and the multiple actors - including children and young people themselves - involved. The book also investigates the practices that differentiate children into different categories and what this means for notions of normality, integration, belonging and citizenship. Scrutinising the multiple forms of monitoring around disabled children and the consequences they generate for how we think about childhood and what is 'normal', this volume sits at the intersection of disability studies and childhood studies.

Learning Bodies - The Body in Youth and Childhood Studies (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016): Julia... Learning Bodies - The Body in Youth and Childhood Studies (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Julia Coffey, Shelley Budgeon, Helen Cahill
R2,886 Discovery Miles 28 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Learning Bodies' addresses the lack of attention paid to the body in youth and childhood studies. Whilst a significant range of work on this area has explored gender, class, race and ethnicity, and sexualities - all of which have bodily dimensions - the body is generally studied indirectly, rather than being the central focus. This collection of papers brings together a scholarly range of international, interdisciplinary work on youth, with a specific focus on the body. The authors engage with conceptual, empirical and pedagogical approaches which counteract perspectives that view young people's bodies primarily as 'problems' to be managed, or as sites of risk or deviance. The authors demonstrate that a focus on the body allows us to explore a range of additional dimensions in seeking to understand the experiences of young people. The research is situated across a range of sites in Australia, North America, Britain, Canada, Asia and Africa, drawing on a range of disciplines including sociology, education and cultural studies in the process. This collection aims to demonstrate - theoretically, empirically and pedagogically - the implications that emerge from a reframed approach to understanding children and youth by focusing on the body and embodiment.

Trust Kids! - Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy (Paperback): Carla Bergman Trust Kids! - Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy (Paperback)
Carla Bergman; Foreword by Matt Hern
R516 R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Save R96 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Ships without a Shore - America's Undernurtured Children (Hardcover): Anne Pierce Ships without a Shore - America's Undernurtured Children (Hardcover)
Anne Pierce
R3,924 Discovery Miles 39 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Childhood in America has changed, and not for the better. From day care for babies, to the exhausting array of activities for children, to the storm of lurid and violent shows now deemed appropriate for the young, to the expectation that teenagers build resumes, childhood has been thoroughly redefined. Anne R. Pierce argues that this radical re-definition has been embraced with remarkably little discussion about what children, by nature, need. Pierce submits that we have latched onto opinions about childrearing that are potentially harmful to children. If traditions are choices to be embraced or abandoned at our discretion, and adult self-fulfillment is a primary determinant in those choices, the fundamentals of the well-wrought childhood are easily forgotten. Steeped in intellectual permissiveness, we have convinced ourselves that parental substitutes are as good as parents themselves at caring for children, that the concepts of nurture and of the maternal are archaic and irrelevant, that more lessons and sports are better than less and that the earlier one embarks upon them the better, and that innocence and knowledge are less important than worldly attitudes and competitive skills. Understanding and challenging the theories and agendas behind childrearing trends is a pressing need, and the subject of this book. Pierce takes an honest look at the evidence on the effects of daycare and of hyper-structuring children. She gives voice to the many intelligent and estimable educators, child-development experts, researchers, and social commentators who are ignored because their conclusions are hard to bear. Equally important, Pierce says, is attention to that inner tug of love and conscience, which many of us have been programmed to ignore.Modern American children are expected to adjust and to understand as adults would the complexities and vicissitudes of public as opposed to private life. For them, childhood is fast becoming a distant memory. Could it be that America's thrust forward leaves children without a solid foundation upon which to grow? This is the sobering question asked, and answered, in this challenging book.

Critical Perspectives on Research with Children - Reflexivity, Methodology, and Researcher Identity (Hardcover): Sarah... Critical Perspectives on Research with Children - Reflexivity, Methodology, and Researcher Identity (Hardcover)
Sarah Richards, Sarah Coombs
R2,097 Discovery Miles 20 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Experts in childhood studies make the case for greater reflexivity in child-based research in this thought-provoking collection. With an international outlook and real-world examples, they explore the identities and roles of researchers, as well as the burdens, boundaries and ethical frameworks which govern their activities, considering themes including online safeguards and sex-related issues, to challenge conventions and improve research standards.

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