Children's Geographies (eBook, PDF)

Playing, Living, Learning
Redaktion: Holloway, Sarah L.; Valentine, Gill

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an overview of a rapidly expanding area of cutting edge research. Drawing on original research and extensive case studies from around the world, it analyses children's experiences of playing, living and learning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134622559
• Artikelnr.: 42641498

Autorenporträt

Sarah L. Holloway is Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough University; she is co-author of Geographies of New Femininities. Gill Valentine is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield; her numerous publicationss include co-authoring Consuming Geographies, Cool Places and Mapping Desire, all published by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Children's geographies and the new social studies of childhood Sarah L. Holloway and Gill ValentinePart I: Playing
2. Melting geography: purity
disorder
childhood and space Owain Jones
3. Children's strategies for creating playspaces: negotiating independence in rural Bolivia Samantha Punch
4. The 'street as thirdspace' Hugh Matthews
Melanie Limb and Mark Taylor 5. 'Nothing to do
nowhere to go'?: teenage girls and 'public' space in the Rhondda Valleys
South Wales Tracey Skelton
6. Time for a party!: making sense of the commercialisation of leisure space for children John H. McKendrick
Michael G. Bradford and Anna V. FieldingPart II: Living
7. Play
rights and borders: gender bound parents and the social construction of children Stuart C. Aitken
8. Home and movement: children constructing 'family time' Pia Christensen
Allison James and Chris Jenks
9. Transforming cyberspace: children's interventions in the new public sphere Gill Valentine
Sarah L
Holloway and Nick Bingham
10. Young carers in Southern Africa? Exploring stories from Zimbabwean secondary school students Elsbeth Robson and Nicola Ansell
11. Home sweet home? Street children's sites of belonging Harriet BeazleyPart III: Learning
12. Playing the part: performing gender in American playgrounds Elizabeth A. Gagen
13. Walk on the left! Children's geographies and the primary school Shaun Fielding
14. 'Out of school'
in school: a social geography of out of school childcare Fiona Smith and John Barker
15. Nature's dangers
nature's pleasures: urban children and the natural Lily Kong