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This book explores the significance of food practices for childhood
identities, from early babyhood to middle childhood and teenage
years. It examines how children and families negotiate food and
eating practices; what influence the media has on these; the role
institutions play; and how far class and ethnicity shape the food
that children eat.
This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state,
child care policies, and small children's everyday lives in
instuitutions in a variety of countries. In uniting recent social
childhood research, welfare perspectives and historical and
comparative approaches, the book explores institutionalization as a
feature of modern child life.
Understanding the stress state in the earth's crust is crucial for
engineers working in rock, particularly with regard to underground
construction. Experience shows that an adequately high horizontal
in-situ stress has a positive effect in stabilizing large span rock
caverns close to the ground surface. On the other hand, high
stresses resulting from large overburden, for example, may cause
spalling and rock burst, threatening the integrity of the
construction. The location, orientation and support design of
underground structures takes into account the magnitude and
orientation of in-situ rock stresses, considering such factors as
gravity, topography, tectonics, residual stress, pore pressure
change and geological structures. An accurate knowledge of in-situ
rock stress can only be obtained by physical measurement, and over
the last few years there has been substantial development in
techniques and in interpretation of the results. The papers in this
volume will be of particular interest to those working in
tunnelling and mining and in petroleum exploration and production.
This book explores questions related to social and cultural
sustainability of coastal communities in transition through the
lens of childhood. Contributors explore diverse local and national
contexts spanning several countries aiming to shed light on the
shifting and dynamic interplay between education, knowledge
production, society and working life in coastal environments from
an intergenerational perspective. Key points that are disclosed
are: the current threat to the social and cultural sustainability
of coastal communities in different local and national contexts,
and the reason they must be preserved the centrality of processes
of inter generational transmission of local knowledge to the
preservation and development of sustainable coastal communities the
central role of children and young people as actors in creating
sustainable livelihoods, economies and knowledge in coastal
communities for the future? the practices across different country
contexts The book will address the challenges to sustainability
experienced by local communities in light of local, national and
global social and economic changes. Looking at these challenges
cross-nationally and through the lens of childhood, and knowledge
production across generations, will provide for a much-needed
perspective in ongoing discussion on sustainability in coastal
communities.
This edited volume provides a critical account of the theories and
policies that have informed work in the field of early childhood
and explores how they have operated in practice. Underpinning the
theoretical debates are the familiar tensions between global norms
and local contexts; increasing inequality alongside economic
progress, and the increasing prominence of business and the private
sector in delivering aid programs. The authors offer a profound
critique on an increasingly important topic and discuss alternative
models of policy and practice.
More young children than ever before are spending their time in
some form of early childhood service. But how do we know what they
think about it? While there has been a move to take children's
views into account more generally, very little attention has been
given to listening to young children below the age of six or seven.
This book is the first of its kind to focus on listening to young
children, both from an international perspective and through
combining theory, practice and reflection. With contributions and
examples from researchers and practitioners in six countries it
examines critically how listening to young children in early
childhood services is understood and practised. Each chapter is
rooted in the everyday lives of young children and presents a range
of actual experiences for students and practitioners to draw from.
Beyond listening goes further to address key questions emerging
from early childhood services and research. These are What do we
mean by listening? Why listen? How do we listen to young children?
What view of the child do different approaches to listening
presume? What risks does listening entail for young children? The
authors are leading experts in this area of rapidly growing
interest and have themselves developed innovative methods such as
the Mosaic approach, which is discussed in the book.
This book explores the significance of food practices for childhood
identities, from early babyhood to middle childhood and teenage
years. It examines how children and families negotiate food and
eating practices; what influence the media has on these; the role
institutions play; and how far class and ethnicity shape the food
that children eat.
This edited volume provides a critical account of the theories and
policies that have informed work in the field of early childhood
and explores how they have operated in practice. Underpinning the
theoretical debates are the familiar tensions between global norms
and local contexts; increasing inequality alongside economic
progress, and the increasing prominence of business and the private
sector in delivering aid programs. The authors offer a profound
critique on an increasingly important topic and discuss alternative
models of policy and practice.
This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state,
child care policies, and small children's everyday lives in
institutions in Europe. In uniting recent social childhood
research, welfare perspectives and historical and comparative
approaches, the book explores institutionalization as a feature of
the modern child's life.
Children's spaces are widening culturally and socially. Socially,
children s spaces are more often multilocal. Culturally, they are
enlarged through mobility in the globalized and virtual spaces in
the media-saturated world. Children's times are also less confined
by strict borderlines. The more flexible and individualized use of
time in the world of work impacts on children's lives in families,
day care, and school. The chapters of this volume each present
particular temporal and spatial aspects of social change in
childhood. The book is directed toward considering the impact of
such change on children's welfare. As former boundaries between
generations begin to blur and neo-liberal forces enter all realms
of people's lives, it can no longer be taken for granted as it was
in former periods of modernity that continued efforts to realize
the childhood project will automatically guarantee the "best
interest of the child." With respect to children's welfare in time
and space, Flexible Childhood? discusses tensions between demands
from the market economy, dynamics of rationalization and
technology, and visions of a "good" childhood. Together with the
above companion volume Childhood, Generational Order and the
Welfare State, also by the University Press of Southern Denmark
this book is the final result of COST Action A19, Children's
Welfare, which has been supported by the European COST Framework.
The stress state in the earth's crust plays a very important role
for engineering constructed in rock, especially underground works.
Experience has demonstrated that an adequately high horizontal
in-situ stress has a positive effect in stabilizing large span rock
caverns near the ground's surface. On the other hand, high stresses
resulting from large overburden, for example, may cause spalling
and rock burst, threatening the integrity of the construction,
whether this is a tunnel, cavern or a petroleum well. Both
magnitude and orientation of in-situ rock stresses influence
greatly location, orientation and support design of underground
structures. Several factors may contribute to, and influence upon,
the formation of in-situ rock stress including gravity, topography,
tectonic effect, residual stress, pore pressure change and
geological structures. This makes it difficult to evaluate in-situ
rock stress by indirect means. In other words, physical
measurements have to be performed in order to get the true and
accurate knowledge of in-situ rock stress. However, a number of
indirect methods give approximate estimate of the rock stress which
may be the only available method and often good enough for
engineering purposes. In the last years, substantial development in
techniques for measuring in-situ stress and interpretation of the
measurement result has taken place. The papers in this volume
reflect the latest development in this challenging field, covering
measuring techniques, interpretation methods and application of the
in-situ stress in the engineering practice related to tunnelling,
mining and petroleum exploration and production.
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