Key Issues in Childhood and Youth Studies (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kassem, Derek; Taylor, Elizabeth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This text explores a range of key issues related to children and childhood, from birth to eighteen years. Challenging current orthodoxies on the nature of childhood, it is an essential text for students as well as those studying relevant professional qualifications in social work, teaching and health.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135265175
• Artikelnr.: 47890703

Autorenporträt

Derek Kassem is Principal Lecturer/ Deputy Centre Leader in the Centre for Education Studies and Primary Education at Liverpool John Moores University, with responsibility for both Early Childhood Studies and Education Studies. Lisa Murphy is Principal Lecturer/ Deputy Centre Leader with responsibility for Primary Education within the Centre for Education Studies and Primary Education at Liverpool John Moores University. Elizabeth Taylor is Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Creating Childhood 1. The Origins of Childhood: In the Beginning...
John Clarke 2. Construction of Childhood: The Building Blocks Shirley J
Pressler 3. Race, Racism and Mixed Heritage: A Mixed Life Derek Kassem
Part 2: The Developing Child 4. The Psychology of the Child: Mind Games
Diahann Gallard 5. The Development of Speech and Language: Inborn or Bred
Lisa Murphy 6. Childhood Sexuality: Coming of Age John Clarke Part 3:
Children and Risk 7. Children and the Notion of Risk: The Nanny State?
Andrew Kennedy 8. The Child and Protection: Not Seen, Not Heard Lynne
Kendal 9. Life as a Looked-after Child: The Parent of Last Resort Derek
Kassem 10. Healthy in Body, Healthy in Mind John Harrison Part 4: The
Politics of Childhood 11. The Social Construction of Deviant Identities:
The Devil Wears a Hoodie John Robinson 12. The Testing Regime of Childhood:
Up Against the Wall Terry Wrigley 13. The Rights of the Child: Rightfully
Mine! Heather Montgomery 14. Childhood and Youth Poverty in the UK: The
Have-Nots Diane Grant Part 5: The Global Child 15. The Palestinian
Experience: Brutalized Childhoods Samir Qouta 16. Childhood in the Context
of HIV/AIDS: The Death of Childhood Gabriella Torstensson 17. Moving for a
Better Life: To Go or to Starve Sam Punch