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

Residential Children's Homes and the Youth Justice System - Identity, Power and Perceptions (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014):... Residential Children's Homes and the Youth Justice System - Identity, Power and Perceptions (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
Julie Shaw
R1,481 Discovery Miles 14 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the factors at the individual, institutional and systemic levels which contribute to children's home residents coming to the attention of the youth justice system, and the consequent implications for policy and practice. Perspectives are drawn from both young people and professionals in the care and youth justice systems.

The Moral Geographies of Children, Young People and Food - Beyond Jamie's School Dinners (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): J.... The Moral Geographies of Children, Young People and Food - Beyond Jamie's School Dinners (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
J. Pike, P. Kelly
R2,051 Discovery Miles 20 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book takes Jamie Oliver's campaign for better school meals as a starting point for thinking about morally charged concerns relating to young people's nutrition, health and well-being, parenting, and public health 'crises' such as obesity. The authors show how these debates are always about the moral project of the self.

British Chinese Families - Parenting, Relationships and Childhoods (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): C. Lau-Clayton British Chinese Families - Parenting, Relationships and Childhoods (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
C. Lau-Clayton
R1,520 Discovery Miles 15 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Based on repeat interviews from a range of generational perspectives, this book explores the nature of contemporary British Chinese households and childhoods, examining the extent to which parents identify themselves as being Chinese and how decisions to uphold or move away from 'traditional' Chinese values impacts on their child-rearing methods.

Childhood, Mobile Technologies and Everyday Experiences - Changing Technologies = Changing Childhoods? (Paperback, 1st ed.... Childhood, Mobile Technologies and Everyday Experiences - Changing Technologies = Changing Childhoods? (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
E. Bond
R2,091 Discovery Miles 20 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This timely volume offers an in-depth theoretical analysis of children's experiences growing up with mobile internet technologies. Drawing on up-to-date research, it explores the relationship between childhood as a social and cultural construction and the plethora of mobile internet technologies which have become ubiquitous in everyday life.

Understanding Narrative Identity Through Lesbian and Gay Youth (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): Edmund Coleman-Fountain Understanding Narrative Identity Through Lesbian and Gay Youth (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
Edmund Coleman-Fountain
R1,520 Discovery Miles 15 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book contests the idea that lesbian and gay categories are disappearing, and that sexuality is becoming fluid, by showing how young people use them in a world in which heterosexuality is privileged. Exploring identity making, the book shows how old modernist stories of sexual being entwine with narratives of normality.

Parenting, Family Policy and Children's Well-Being in an Unequal Society - A New Culture War for Parents (Paperback, 1st... Parenting, Family Policy and Children's Well-Being in an Unequal Society - A New Culture War for Parents (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
D. Hartas
R2,091 Discovery Miles 20 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Western societies face many challenges. The growing inequality and the diminishing role of the welfare state and the rapid accumulation of the resources of a finite planet at the top 1% have made the world an inhospitable place to many families. Parents are left alone to deal with the big societal problems and reverse their impact on their children's educational achievement and life chances. The 'average' working family is sliding down the social ladder with a significant impact on children's learning and wellbeing. We now know that parental involvement with children's learning (although important in its own right) is not the primary mechanism through which poverty translates to underachievement and reduced social mobility. Far more relevant to children's learning and emotional wellbeing is their parents' income and educational qualifications. The mantra of 'what parents do matters' is hypocritical considering the strong influence that poverty has on parents and children. We can no longer argue that we live in a classless society, especially as it becomes clear that most governmental reforms are class based and affect poor families disproportionately. In this book, Dimitra Hartas explores parenting and its influence on children's learning and wellbeing while examining the impact of social class amidst policy initiatives to eradicate child poverty in 21st Century Britain.

Educating Incarcerated Youth - Exploring the Impact of Relationships, Expectations, Resources and Accountability (Paperback,... Educating Incarcerated Youth - Exploring the Impact of Relationships, Expectations, Resources and Accountability (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
Lynette Tannis
R3,518 Discovery Miles 35 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the perceptions and role of juvenile justice educators. Through researching the support structures of educational facilities and analysing the positive features of these learning environments, Tannis evaluates how best to educate incarcerated young people and prepare them for their transition back into society.

Inhabiting 'Childhood': Children, Labour and Schooling in Postcolonial India (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): S. Balagopalan Inhabiting 'Childhood': Children, Labour and Schooling in Postcolonial India (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
S. Balagopalan
R1,520 Discovery Miles 15 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Through a rich ethnography of street and working children in Calcutta, India, this book offers the first sustained enquiry into postcolonial childhoods, arguing that the lingering effects of colonialism are central to comprehending why these children struggle to inhabit the transition from labour to schooling.

Gender, Lifespan and Quality of Life - An International Perspective (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Elizabeth Eckermann Gender, Lifespan and Quality of Life - An International Perspective (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Elizabeth Eckermann
R3,931 Discovery Miles 39 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This publication addresses the gender dimensions of people's lived experience and emphasizes how gender relationships differentially impact on women's and girls' as well as men's and boys' subjective well-being across the lifespan.It therefore fills a significant gap in the literature on quality of life and subjective well-being. The book brings together research which comparesfemale's and male's subjective experiences of well-being at various life stages from a variety of countries and regions, particularly focusing on women's subjective well-being. Sex-disaggregation of data on objective conditions of quality of life is now routinely undertaken in many countries of the world. However, despite the burgeoning of objective data on sex differences in life conditions across the world, very little gender analysis is carried out to explain fully such difference and there is still a serious dearth of data on gender differences in subjective experiences of quality of life and well-being. This publication will assist researchers, teachers, service providers and policy makers in filling some of the gaps in currently available literature on the nexus between age and gender in producing differential experiences of subjective wellbeing.

The Peripheral Child in Nineteenth Century Literature and its Criticism (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): N. Cocks The Peripheral Child in Nineteenth Century Literature and its Criticism (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
N. Cocks
R1,487 Discovery Miles 14 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Established accounts of the child in nineteenth century literature tend to focus on those who occupy a central position within narratives. This book is concerned with children who are not so easily recognized or remembered, the peripheral or overlooked children to be read in works by Dickens, Bronte, Austen and Rossetti.

Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013): K. Mallan Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)
K. Mallan
R2,091 Discovery Miles 20 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Many children learn from a young age to tell the truth. They also learn that some lies are necessary in order to survive in a world that paradoxically values truth-telling, but practises deception. This book examines this paradox by considering how deception is often a necessary means of survival for individuals, families, governments, and animals.

Classrooms and Clinics - Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870-1930 (Paperback, New): Richard A.... Classrooms and Clinics - Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870-1930 (Paperback, New)
Richard A. Meckel
R1,301 Discovery Miles 13 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Classrooms and Clinics is the first book-length assessment of the development of public school health policies from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Great Depression. Richard A. Meckel examines the efforts of early twentieth-century child health care advocates and reformers to utilize urban schools to deliver health care services to socioeconomically disadvantaged and medically underserved children in the primary grades. Their goal, Meckel shows, was to improve the children's health and thereby improve their academic performance. Meckel situates these efforts within a larger late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century public discourse relating schools and schooling, especially in cities and towns, to child health. He describes and explains how that discourse and the school hygiene movement it inspired served as critical sites for the constructive negotiation of the nature and extent of the public school's-and by extension the state's-responsibility for protecting and promoting the physical and mental health of the children for whom it was providing a compulsory education. Tracing the evolution of that negotiation through four overlapping stages, Meckel shows how, why, and by whom the health of schoolchildren was discursively constructed as a sociomedical problem and charts and explains the changes that construction underwent over time. He also connects the changes in problem construction to the design and implementation of various interventions and services and evaluates how that design and implementation were affected by the response of the civic, parental, professional, educational, public health, and social welfare groups that considered themselves stakeholders and took part in the discourse. And, most significantly, he examines the responses called forth by the question at the heart of the negotiations: what services are necessitated by the state's and school's taking responsibility for protecting and promoting the health and physical and mental development of schoolchildren. He concludes that the negotiations resulted both in the partial medicalization of American primary education and in the articulation and adoption of a school health policy that accepted the school's responsibility for protecting and promoting the health of its students while largely limiting the services called for to the preventive and educational.

Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): Vilna Bashi Treitler Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
Vilna Bashi Treitler
R1,507 Discovery Miles 15 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When parents form families by reaching across social barriers to adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption process? How do agencies, parents, and the adopted children themselves deal with issues of difference in adoption? This volume engages writers from both sides of the Atlantic to take a close look at these issues.

The Anthropology of Sibling Relations - Shared Parentage, Experience, and Exchange (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013): E. Alber, C. Coe,... The Anthropology of Sibling Relations - Shared Parentage, Experience, and Exchange (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)
E. Alber, C. Coe, T. Thelen
R1,981 Discovery Miles 19 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing on international case studies, the contributors extrapolate a systematization of the ways in which siblingship is conceived on the basis of shared parentage, shared childhoods, and reciprocal care. They explore what makes these relations worth maintaining and how they contribute to community processes and to material and emotional survival.

Intergenerational Mobility - A Study of Social Classes in India (Paperback, 2013 ed.): Rajarshi Majumder Intergenerational Mobility - A Study of Social Classes in India (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Rajarshi Majumder
R1,630 Discovery Miles 16 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Discrimination and exclusion in the process of capability formation and the labor market transcend the boundaries of the current generation and spill over to successive generations as well. Though a plethora of work has been done at the international level, the area has not been the focus of Indian economic research despite social exclusion and disparity having been quite substantial in India, especially the division along caste lines. The book addresses this research gap and explores the issue of intergenerational mobility across different social classes in the Indian context, analyzing the spheres of both education and occupation. We contend that parental education and occupation have a significantly greater impact on educational attainment and occupational choice for socially excluded groups compared to the advanced groups. In the labor market, intergenerational mobility is low and most of it is lateral and not vertical, increasing the possibility of discrimination in the labor market. This book highlights the fact that the long history of social exclusion has had a lasting effect and it is very difficult to come out of this inertia.

A Law of Blood-ties - The 'Right' to Access Genetic Ancestry (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Alice Diver A Law of Blood-ties - The 'Right' to Access Genetic Ancestry (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Alice Diver
R4,041 Discovery Miles 40 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This text collates and examines the jurisprudence that currently exists in respect of blood-tied genetic connection, arguing that the right to identity often rests upon the ability to "identify" biological ancestors, which in turn requires an absence of adult-centric veto norms. It looks firstly to the nature and purpose of the blood-tie as a unique item of birthright heritage, whose socio-cultural value perhaps lies mainly in preventing, or perhaps engendering, a feared or revered sense of otherness. It then traces the evolution of the various policies on telling and accessing truth, tying these to the diverse body of psychological theories on the need for unbroken attachments and the harms of being origin deprived. The law of the blood-tie comprises of several overlapping and sometimes conflicting strands: the international law provisions and UNCRC Country Reports on the child s right to identity, recent Strasbourg case law, and domestic case law from a number of jurisdictions on issues such as legal parentage, vetoes on post-adoption contact, court-delegated decision-making, overturned placements and the best interests of the relinquished child. The text also suggests a means of preventing the discriminatory effects of denied ancestry, calling upon domestic jurists, legislators, policy-makers and parents to be mindful of the long-term effects of genetic kinlessness upon origin deprived persons, especially where they have been tasked with protecting this vulnerable section of the population."

Understanding Child Sexual Abuse - Perspectives from the Caribbean (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013): A. Jones Understanding Child Sexual Abuse - Perspectives from the Caribbean (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)
A. Jones
R1,505 Discovery Miles 15 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is the first comprehensive study of child sexual abuse in the Caribbean, exploring issues such as the ontology of childhood, links between slavery, colonialism and present-day gender-based violence, the impact of child sexual abuse on the brain and child protection after natural disasters.

Children, Film and Literacy (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013): Becky Parry Children, Film and Literacy (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)
Becky Parry
R2,071 Discovery Miles 20 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children's lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which they create, play and perform familiar and unfamiliar, fantasy and everyday narratives and this narrative play is closely connected to identity, literacy and textual practices. Family is key to the encouragement of this social play and, at school, the playground is also an important site for this activity. However, in the literacy classroom, some children encounter a discontinuity between their experiences of narrative at home and those that are valued in school. Through film children develop understandings of the common characteristics of narrative and the particular 'language' of film. This book demonstrates the ways in which children are able to express and develop distinct and complex understandings of narrative, that is to say, where they can draw on their own experiences (including those in a moving image form). Children whose primary experiences of narrative are moving images face particular challenges when their experiences are not given opportunities for expression in the classroom, and this has urgent implications for the teaching of literacy.

Fertility Rates and Population Decline - No Time for Children? (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013): A. Buchanan, A. Rotkirch Fertility Rates and Population Decline - No Time for Children? (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)
A. Buchanan, A. Rotkirch
R1,520 Discovery Miles 15 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While many worry about population overload, this book highlights the dramatic fall in fertility rates globally exploring questions such as why are parents having fewer babies? Will this lead to population decline? What will be the impact of a world with fewer children and can social policy reverse fertility decline?

Deconstructing Youth - Youth Discourses at the Limits of Sense (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013): F. Gabriel Deconstructing Youth - Youth Discourses at the Limits of Sense (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)
F. Gabriel
R1,481 Discovery Miles 14 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why. Applying Derridean deconstruction to case studies on youth sexuality, violence and developmental neuroscience, Gabriel offers a fresh perspective on how we might attend to 'youth problems' by recasting the foundations of the concept of 'youth'.

Participation, Citizenship and Trust in Children's Lives (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013): H. Warming Participation, Citizenship and Trust in Children's Lives (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)
H. Warming
R2,031 Discovery Miles 20 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book critically analyzes and theorizes trust dynamics in children's lives and how they impact upon children's participation, citizenship and well-being, drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence that examines trust in various institutional and cultural contexts.

Socialising Children (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013): A James Socialising Children (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)
A James
R1,484 Discovery Miles 14 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children come to understand the process of socialization at home, at school and in the neighbourhood as an embodied and biographical experience.

Childhood and Biopolitics - Climate Change, Life Processes and Human Futures (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013): N. Lee Childhood and Biopolitics - Climate Change, Life Processes and Human Futures (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)
N. Lee
R1,941 Discovery Miles 19 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements to lifespan? Predictions vary, but children's status as human embodiments of the future puts them at the centre of attempts to shape the world and the discipline of childhood studies can therefore make a critical and creative contribution to future-making.

Rethinking Children's Citizenship (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013): T. Cockburn Rethinking Children's Citizenship (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)
T. Cockburn
R1,500 Discovery Miles 15 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the relationship between children and citizenship, analyzing international perspectives on citizenship and human rights and developing new methods for facilitating the recognition of children as participating agents within society.

Political Engagement Amongst Ethnic Minority Young People - Making a Difference (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013): T. O'toole, R.... Political Engagement Amongst Ethnic Minority Young People - Making a Difference (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)
T. O'toole, R. Gale
R1,495 Discovery Miles 14 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book engages with debates on ethnic minority and Muslim young people showing, beyond apathy and violent political extremism, the diverse forms of political engagement in which young people engage.

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