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Seven Years Old in the Home Environment (Paperback)
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Seven Years Old in the Home Environment (Paperback)
Series: Psychology Library Editions: Child Development
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John and Elizabeth Newson's long-term investigation of child
up-bringing attracted intense interest from its earliest
beginnings: 'pathbreaking' and 'seminal' were adjectives that
greeted their first report. The study is now established as one of
the major projects of the seventies. This third volume of the
series catches some seven hundred Nottingham children at a critical
stage of their development: in transition from infant to junior
school, they are moving out of the protective family orbit and into
the wider social world of street, playground and classroom, where
cultural pressures make themselves felt in ever more demanding
ways. Like the Newson's earlier books, this study has a strong
ecological flavour in the sense that what children do, what parents
do, and how they feel about what they do, are all set firmly into
the broader context of life as it is lived in contemporary urban
society. This is no laboratory investigation. Yet a sensitive and
subtle methodology has allowed the Newsons to present an impressive
structure of hard factual data, while putting flesh on the
statistical bones by constant reference to the mothers' own
thoughts and reactions, faithfully recorded in their own vivid
words. The result is a rich descriptive picture of seven-year-olds
and their family life: their play, friendships, quarrels; their
duties and privileges; their fears, fantasies and jokes.
Inevitably, much of the book explores the dynamics of conflict
between mother and child, and takes a long hard look at the
domestic power-game as it is expressed in both words and
punishment. At the same time, the loving and caring side of the
relationship is closely and delicately examined with a rare empathy
for both parent and child. In short, this is a study in depth and
in breadth of how parents and children bring each other up.
Teachers, doctors, nurses and social workers, as well as parents
welcomed the Newsons' earlier reports. Once again, no professional
worker in the field of childhood or parenthood can afford to be
without the insights offered by this volume, which is also a rich
source of enjoyment for any observer, professional or amateur, of
the family in society today. Today it can be enjoyed in its
historical context.
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