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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies showcases
the cutting-edge theoretical work that has been produced within the
field of childhood studies. It speaks to both scholars and students
in the field by addressing basic questions such as what childhood
is, how childhoods are diversely constructed and how children’s
experiences can be better understood. The volume draws together a
wide range of theoretical perspectives from the social sciences,
humanities, politics, postcolonialism, feminism, critical race
studies, queer theory, disabilities studies to generate a
much-needed conversation about how to move childhood studies
forward as a grounded field of research. The volume is subdivided
into three broad sections - subjectivities, relationalities, and
structures - each of which contains around ten chapters from a
diversity of disciplines and author identities. The chapters are
written by experts from Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, India,
the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA.
The visual has become a central theme in the study of childhood
both as a research subject and a research method. The last two
decades have seen huge interest in how children are represented in
visual culture and how they in turn engage with visual cultures -
as producers, audiences, and sometimes both. This innovative book
gives a historical and geographic perspective on visual cultures of
childhood, looking at representation as well as media effects. The
main themes of the book are the strong presence of children in
visual cultures in the modern period and the uses of this visual
record for understanding how childhood is represented and
constructed - as gendered, racialised and class-based. It covers
social realism, melodrama and activism. Visual cultures of
childhood are significant cultural resources that children draw on
to understand and learn how to perform social identities. The
access that teens now have to making their own visual productions
and how the representation of gender, race and class than they
produce compare to those produced by adults for children is
interesting and very rich ground to conduct research on. It also
speaks to current political concerns about, for example, how youth
understand citizenship.
A simple question is fervently asked by children from 12 different
countries. In this award-winning, 32 page picture book, sweet
rhyming prose, repetition and vividly captivating illustrations
delight the senses and express the deep joy and love we hope for
all children. The responses given will touch the heartstrings of
people young and old around the world. Bucket filling, the essence
of being loved and loving others, occurs in those little moments in
a day when you stop and just listen, cuddle, play or spend time
with a child.
A simple question is fervently asked by children from 12 different
countries. In this award-winning, 32 page picture book, sweet
rhyming prose, repetition and vividly captivating illustrations
delight the senses and express the deep joy and love we hope for
all children. The responses given will touch the heartstrings of
people young and old around the world. Bucket filling, the essence
of being loved and loving others, occurs in those little moments in
a day when you stop and just listen, cuddle, play or spend time
with a child.
This two-volume encyclopedia looks at the lives of teenagers around
the world, examining topics from a typical school day to major
issues that teens face today, including bullying, violence,
sexuality, and social and financial pressures. Teenagers are living
in a rapidly changing and increasingly interconnected yet unequal
world. Whether they live in Australia or Zimbabwe, they have in
common that they are between childhood and adulthood and
increasingly aware of how inequality is affecting their lives and
futures. This encyclopedia gives a different perspective based on
the experiences of teens in 60 countries. Each entry gives the
reader a brief sketch of a country to helps readers to understand
how geography, history, economics, and politics shape teen life.
The entries include a country overview and cover the following
topics: Schooling and Education; Extracurricular Activities: Art,
Music, and Sports; Family and Social Life; Religions and Cultural
Rites of Passage; Rights and Legal Status; and Issues Today.
Special sidebars, called Teen Voices, appear throughout the text,
and include a description of a typical day in the life of a teen in
various countries. Students will be able to gain a better
understanding of what life is like around the world for their peers
and will be able to easily make cross-cultural comparisons between
different countries. Gives readers a glimpse into a typical day in
the life of a teen in countries around the world, from wake up time
to classes to after school activities Focuses on interesting facts
and anecdotal information Allows students to make cross-national
comparisons of topics such as literacy, education, rights, internet
use, and other key issues Shows a complex picture of new family
forms, new gender roles, and declining religious belief with the
strong persistence of conservative values
From 40 years and hundreds of families experience comes BRINGING
LOVE HOME. BRINGING LOVE HOME provides a positive and holistic
approach to help families when a loved one is spiraling downward
with drugs and/or alcohol to work through the "shame and blame,"
bringing much needed peace to parents. BRINGING LOVE HOME
encourages parents to walk their own path of self discovery, to
dissect the struggling family system, and to learn new approaches
to problem solving. The workbook provides ideas for support
systems, and examples of how to communicate, set boundaries, and
express unconditional love. It focuses on honest, open
communication, and the Family Circle process, providing the best
opportunity for recovery of your loved one and serenity in your
family.
Some of the most iconic images of the twentieth century are of
children: Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother, depicting farm worker
Frances Owens Thompson with three of her children; six-year-old
Ruby Bridges, flanked by U.S. marshals, walking down the steps of
an all-white elementary school she desegregated; Huynh Cong Ut's
photograph of nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc fleeing a South
Vietnamese napalm bombing. These iconic images with their
juxtaposition of the innocent (in the sense of not culpable) figure
of the child and the guilty perpetrators of violence (both
structural and interpersonal) are 'arresting'. The power of the
image of the child to arrest the spectator, to demand a response
from her has given the representation of children a central place
in the history of visual culture for social reform. This book
analyses a range of forms and genres from social reform documentary
through feature films and onto small and mobile media to address
two core questions: What difference does it make to the message who
the producer is? and How has the place of children and youth
changed in visual public culture?
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