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Contents: 1. Social Transformation and Child Development in South Africa 2. A Brief History of Institutional Racism in South Africa 3. Urban Poverty and Living Standards 4. The Decline of Political Violence 5. Rising Family and Community Violence 6. Physical Growth and Social Development 7. Self Regulation of Attention, Behavior, and Emotions 8. Urban Households and Family Relationships 9. Family Influences on Socioemotional Development 10. Poverty and Child Development 11. The Impact of Violence on Children 12. Comparing the social development of South African, Ugandan, and African American Children 13. Between Hope and Peril: Adaptive Families, Resilient Children 14. Addressing the Needs of Children
The rash of school shootings in the late 1990s has generated a
tremendous amount of public concern about youth aggression and
violence. But students, trainees, and professionals who work with
children and adolescents have had no concise or systematic survey
of our current knowledge about causes and effective approaches to
intervention and prevention on which to draw. "Youth Aggression and
Violence" has filled the void.
Comprehensive and readable, it:
* utilizes theory and research from the developmental psychology
of "normal" children and adolescents, as well as material on
"abnormal" forms of development, such as disruptive behavior
disorders and juvenile delinquency;
* situates youthful aggression and violence within the overall
framework of children's moral development;
* integrates quantitative research with carefully considered
qualitative research and case studies;
* discusses the genetic and biological underpinnings of youthful
aggression, as well as family and social factors related to
antisocial behavior;
* emphasizes cognitive, motivational, and emotional processes
involved in youth aggression and violence;
* provides in-depth coverage of juvenile killers and school
violence;
* examines female aggression and violence in a variety of
contexts; and
* critically examines a number of questions frequently discussed
in conjunction with youth violence, such as media violence, firearm
accessibility, and the relationship between self-esteem and
aggression.
The rash of school shootings in the late 1990s has generated a
tremendous amount of public concern about youth aggression and
violence. But students, trainees, and professionals who work with
children and adolescents have had no concise or systematic survey
of our current knowledge about causes and effective approaches to
intervention and prevention on which to draw. "Youth Aggression and
Violence" has filled the void.
Comprehensive and readable, it:
* utilizes theory and research from the developmental psychology
of "normal" children and adolescents, as well as material on
"abnormal" forms of development, such as disruptive behavior
disorders and juvenile delinquency;
* situates youthful aggression and violence within the overall
framework of children's moral development;
* integrates quantitative research with carefully considered
qualitative research and case studies;
* discusses the genetic and biological underpinnings of youthful
aggression, as well as family and social factors related to
antisocial behavior;
* emphasizes cognitive, motivational, and emotional processes
involved in youth aggression and violence;
* provides in-depth coverage of juvenile killers and school
violence;
* examines female aggression and violence in a variety of
contexts; and
* critically examines a number of questions frequently discussed
in conjunction with youth violence, such as media violence, firearm
accessibility, and the relationship between self-esteem and
aggression.
Focusing on the meanings, uses, and impacts of new media in
childhood, family life, peer culture, and the relation between home
and school, this volume sets out to address many of the questions,
fears, and hopes regarding the changing place of media in the lives
of today's children and young people.
The scholars contributing to this work argue that such
questions--intellectual, empirical, and policy-related--can be
productively addressed through cross-national research. Hence, this
volume brings together researchers from 12 countries--Belgium,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Israel,
Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland--to present
original and comprehensive findings regarding the diffusion and
significance of new media and information technologies among
children. Inspired by parallels and difference between the arrival
of television in the family home during the 1950s and the present
day arrival of new media, the research is based on in-depth
interviews and a detailed comparative survey of 6- to 16-year-olds
across Europe and in Israel. The result is a comprehensive,
detailed, and fascinating account of how these technologies are
rapidly becoming central to the daily lives of young people.
As a resource for researchers and students in media and
communication studies, leisure and cultural studies, social
psychology, and related areas, this volume provides crucial
insights into the role of media in the lives of children. The
findings included herein will also be of interest to policymakers
in broadcasting, technology, and education throughout the
world.
Conceptualising Child-Adult Relations focuses on how children conceptualise and experience child-adult relations. The authors explore the idea of generation as a key to understanding children's agency in intersection with social worlds which are largely organised and ordered by adults. within this broad theme, the authors explore two interconnected themes: how children define the division of labour between children and adults, and how far children regard themselves as constituting a separate group. This book is ground-breaking in its focus on the variety and commonality in children's lives and views across a broad range of contexts. It provides innovative theoretical approaches to the growing study of childhood by homing in on intergenerational relations as a main concept, and draws attention to links across the main sites of children's lives such as the home, neighbourhood and school. Moreover, for policy related issues, this book provides food for thought about the social conditions and status of childhood, and the factors structuring it.
Contents: 1. Governing the child in the new millenium: Kenneth Hultqvist and Gunilla Dahlberg; 2. Safety and danger: Childhood, Sexuality and Space at the end of the millennium; 3. Time Matters in Adolescence: Nancy Lesko; 4. The Pacing and Timing of Children's Bodies: Chris Jenks; 5. Administering Freedom. A History of the Present-Rescuing Parents to Rescue the Child for Society: Tom S. Popkewitz and Marianne Bloch; 6. Educating Flexible Souls: The construction of Subjectivity through Developmentality and Interactionism: Lynn Fendler; 7. Bringing the Angels Back? A modern pedagogical saga about excess in moderation: Kenneth Hultqvist; 8. Childhood, School and Family. Continuity and displacement in recent researchers: Marian Warde; 9. Childhood and the Politics of Memory in Argentina: Ines Dussell; 10. Construction of the Child in Mexican Legislative Discourse: Rosa Nidia Buenfil; 11. When post-structuralism meets Gender: Julie McLeod
Childhood is increasingly saturated by technology: from television to the Internet, video games to 'video nasties', camcorders to personal computers. Children, Technology and Culture looks at the interplay of children and technology which poses critical questions for how we understand the nature of childhood in late modern society. This collection brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to address the following four aspects of this relationship between children and technology: *children's access to technologies and the implications for social relationships *the structural contexts of children's engagement with technologies with a focus on gender and the family *the situatedness of children's interactions with technological objects *the constitution of children and childhood through the mediations of technology _ This book represents a substantial contribution to contemporary social scientific thinking both about the nature of children and childhood, the social impacts of technologies and the various relationships between the two.
Series Information: Future of Childhood
The contributors and editors of this volume begin from the assumption that the changes wrought by globalization compel us to reflect upon the status of the child and childhood at the end of the twentieth century. Their essays consider what techniques are used to govern the child, what role the family plays, what is global and what is currently specific in the changes, and how the subject is constructed and construed.
This book brings together key authors from the Nordic countries
(Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland) to discuss
theoretical and empirical research on families and children.
Sharing the Nordic perspective from each of the five countries, the
book highlights key ideas within and across the countries. The
chapters provide an understanding of the history of the Nordic
perspectives of family and children, present current innovative
research on solutions to complex issues, and explore contemporary
issues. Nordic countries continually attain high scores in
lifestyle measures, quality of life and children's outcomes. Much
of this has to do with the specific culture and policy of the
Nordic countries. Written by academics within the region who are
well regarded for contributing to academic and public debate, this
book will appeal to an international audience interested in the
Nordic perspective and social policy around family and children.
Innovations in Play Therapy is a unique compilation of discussions on current and pressing issues in play therapy: topics commonly left out of other play therapy resources. Designed to help play therapists fill in the gaps as therapeutic considerations multiply, this book includes coverage of such timely topics as: * what play therapists need to know about medication * legal and ethical issues in play therapy * cultural considerations * play as a diagnostic tool * innovative procedures such as child-centred group play therapy and intensive short-term group play therapy * play therapy with special populations such as autistic children. Children with chronic illness, selective mute children, physically abused children, and the elderly * play therapy with traumatized children in a crisis situation * work as a traveling play therapist All based upon an unwavering belief on the profound healing capacity of the relationship, the discussions in this book arm therapists with knowledge to enhance their work with increasingly diverse groups and ever changing circumstances.
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Intended for use with late elementary-school-aged and middle-school-aged children who have experienced the death of someone special, the Mourning Child Grief Support Group Curriculum: Middle Childhood Edition is for professionals who work in schools, hospitals, hospices, mental health agencies, or any setting that serves bereaved children. The Middle Childhood Edition contains lesson plans for 10 sessions that include age-appropriate activities. These fun and engaging activities enable young children to approach highly sensitive and painful topics. The authors provide detailed instructions and learning objectives to guide users through the curriculum.
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Intended for use with elementary-school-aged children who have experienced the death of someone special, Mourning Child Grief Support Group Curriculum: Early Childhood Edition is for professionals who work in schools, hospitals, hospices, mental health agencies, or any setting that serves bereaved children. The Middle Childhood Edition contains lesson plans for 10 sessions that include age-appropriate activities. These fun and engaging activities enable young children to approach highly sensitive and painful topics. The authors provide detailed instructions and learning objectives to guide users through the curriculum.
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Contents: Grief is a Family Process. A Note to Group Facilitators. Sample Telephone Interview. Mourning Child Pre-School Curriculum: Week 1. Mourning Child Pre-School Curriculum: Week2. Mourning Child Pre-School Curriculum: Week 3. Mourning Child Pre-School Curriculum: Week 4. Mourning Child Pre-School Curriculum: Week 5. Mourning Child Pre-School Curriculum: Week 6. Mourning Child Pre-School Curriculum: Week 7. Mourning Child Pre-School Curriculum: Week 8. Mourning Child Pre-School Curriculum: Week 9. Mourning Child Pre-School Curriculum: Week 10. Appendix 1: A Description of Materials. Appendix 2: Samples of Materials to be Used. Appendix 3: Sample Notes to be Sent Home to Caregivers. Appendix 4: Special Activities for Special Days and Sample. Denny the Duck Stories.
Different Childhoods: Non/Normative Development and Transgressive
Trajectories opens up new avenues for exploring children's
development as contextual, provisional and locally produced, rather
than a unitary, universal and consistent process. This edited
collection frames a critical exploration of the trajectory against
which children are seen to be 'different' within three key themes:
deconstructing 'developmental tasks', locating development and the
limits of childhood. Examining the particular kinds of
'transgressive' development, contributors discuss instances of
'difference' including migration, work, assumptions of
vulnerability, trans childhoods, friendships and involvement in
crime. Including both empirical and theoretical discussions, the
book builds on existing debates as part of the interrogation of
'different childhoods'. This book provides essential reading for
students wishing to explore notions of development while also being
of interest to both academics and practitioners working across a
broad area of disciplines such as developmental psychology,
sociology, childhood studies and critical criminology.
An anthology of contributions from eleven renowned specialists in
the field who deal with topics that effect Arab youth in the Middle
East the most, such as demographic growth, rising unemployment, and
the difficult prospects of their future. Apart from studies on
violence and youth in the Algerian civil war, the book offers new
insights into generational conflicts and attempts by contemporary
youth to overcome their alienation by creating their own eclectic
cultural solutions to the problems of tradition and modernity. The
book is based on the latest research and opinion surveys held in
different Arab countries.
An anthology of contributions from eleven renowned specialists in
the field who deal with topics that effect Arab youth in the Middle
East the most, such as demographic growth, rising unemployment, and
the difficult prospects of their future. Apart from studies on
violence and youth in the Algerian civil war, the book offers new
insights into generational conflicts and attempts by contemporary
youth to overcome their alienation by creating their own eclectic
cultural solutions to the problems of tradition and modernity. The
book is based on the latest research and opinion surveys held in
different Arab countries.
Child poverty is rising across affluent Western societies; how it
is measured is vital to how governments act to prevent, alleviate
or eliminate it. While the roots of childhood poverty are fiercely
debated and contested, they are all too often misrepresented in
policy and media discourses. Seeking to redress this problem,
Treanor places children's experiences, needs and concerns at the
centre of this critical examination of the contemporary policies
and political discourses surrounding poverty in childhood. She
examines a broad range of structural, institutional and ideological
factors common across developed nations, and their impacts, to
interrogate how poverty in childhood is conceptualised and
operationalised in policy and to forge a radical pathway for an
alternative future.
Children's Geographies offers an overview of a rapidly expanding area of cultural geography and contributes to the current 'spatial' approach to the social studies of childhood. Drawing on original research and extensive case-studies in England, Wales, the USA, Zimbabwe, Bolivia and Indonesia, the book analyses children's experiences of playing, living and learning. Fully engaging with current debates about the nature of childhood the contributors explore: * children's experiences of after school care * street cultures amongst homeless children * teenage girls and 'public' space * gender relations in nineteenth century playgrounds * the commercialisation of leisure space for children * children's role in transforming cyberspace * the construction of 'family time'.
This book sets out to celebrate physical education and sport, and by doing so, encourage the educational establishment to embrace the subject area as a vehicle for the complete development of the individual. In addition, it shows that the benefits of physical activity far outweigh the shallow claims of populous magazines - there are benefits for the individual, the community and for society as a whole. Laker contends that the importance of physical education and sport in many areas of social life has been overlooked at best, and misused at worst. Physical activity has a vast contribution to make, not only as a topic of small talk on a Monday morning, but also to the personal and social development of individuals and possibly to the well-being of the global community as a whole. This book explores the land 'beyond the boundaries of the game.'
By using a combination of data about children and data produced by children, Childly Language demonstrates the connections between the distribution of power in the social world, children's own use of language, and the language we use about children.
First published in 1987, this book focuses on childhood disability
within the family. It examines the very nature of disability
itself, as well as many of the fundamental elements of families.
The book was written at a time when the meaning level of disability
and its effect on family and society were rapidly changing and
people with disabilities were starting to benefit from
opportunities to compensate for whatever disabilities they may have
had. Modern technology and an affluent society afforded advantages
to support many of its disabled members. Contributors examine the
contemporary context of disability, the cost of disability to
families, ethical, philosophical and social issues underlying the
treatment and rehabilitation of children with severe disabilities,
and the role of professionals, amongst other topics. This book will
be of interest to those involved in teaching, research and direct
care with families who have children with disabilities. Although
written in the late 80s, the work discusses subjects that are still
vital today.
Two decades have now passed since the revolutions of 1989 swept
through Eastern Europe and precipitated the collapse of state
socialism across the region, engendering a period of massive
social, economic and political transformation. This book explores
the ways in which young people growing up in post-socialist Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union negotiate a range of identities
and transitions in their personal lives against a backdrop of
thoroughgoing transformation in their societies. Drawing upon
original empirical research in a range of countries, the book's
contributors explore the various freedoms and insecurities that
have accompanied neo-liberal transformation in post-socialist
countries - in spheres as diverse as consumption, migration,
political participation, volunteering, employment and family
formation - and examine the ways in which they have begun to
re-shape different aspects of young people's lives. In addition,
while 'social change' is a central theme of the issue, all of the
chapters in the collection indicate that the new opportunities and
risks faced by young people continue both to underpin and to be
shaped by familiar social and spatial divisions, not only within
and between the countries addressed, but also between 'East' and
'West'. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Journal of Youth Studies.
This brand new textbook on child and adolescent development
reflects a scientist's understanding of key research, a
psychologist's understanding of people, and a teacher's
understanding of students. It features significant new findings, a
broad-based global perspective, and enhanced media offerings. With
all of this, the book itself is at just the right length and level
of coverage to fit comfortably in a single-term,
undergraduate-level Developmental Psychology course. With its clear
presentation and integration of detailed real-world examples, this
acclaimed core textbook accessibly illustrates the relevance of
social sciences research without sacrificing key content. This book
can be purchased with the breakthrough online resource, LaunchPad,
which offers innovative media content, curated and organised for
easy assignability. LaunchPad's intuitive interface presents
quizzing, flashcards, animations and much more to make learning
actively engaging.
Author Biography: Colin Noble is a PSE Advisor and Raising Boys Achievement Manager in Kirklees Local Education Authority and has been responsible for publishing a range of packs, videos, leaflets and posters on the subject of raising boys achievement. Wendy Bradford is a Deputy Headteacher at a large and successful mixed secondary school with a wealth of classroom experience behind her.
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