Children's Studies

This reader takes debates about children's services forward by drawing on ideas based in social pedagogy and arguing that the concept of 'space' is crucial to relationships and practices with children and young people. It will stimulate students to...

Young People in the Global South: Voice, Agency and Citizenship explores the spatial, relational, affective and material dimensions of adolescents' and young people's civic engagement and political participation in lower- and middle-income contexts. This...

This unique collection of 12 research projects carried out by experienced practitioners in the play sector in the UK and USA puts forward a range of perspectives on children's play and adults' relationships with it. Drawing on a diverse range of...

Parenting in the modern world is an overwhelming concept. It seems to divide everyone from psychologists and politicians to scientists and salesmen, leaving the parents themselves with a terrible headache as a result. How can anyone live up to such...

"Brilliant and intimate. The book is an eloquent rendition of the expansive spatial abstractions and mimetic revolutionary re-imagination it proposes." -Social and Cultural GeographyGrowing Up Global examines the processes of development and global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Parents Choice Award (Spring) (1998-2007) (Recommended) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780805066425Author Myrna ShureFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St. Martins...

Historically, children were often understood in relation to their development towards adulthood, but the 'new paradigm' of childhood studies has since shown how they should be taken more seriously as active participants in their own lives. Studying...

Even after 20 years of children's rights and new thinking about childhood, children are still frequently seen as apolitical. All over the world there has been a growing emphasis on 'participation', but much of this is adult-led, and spaces for children's...

Reg Pengelly has gained considerable experience of managing arrangements to safeguard children in both the police service and the NHS. This short and practical guide has been written for the benefit of all managers who are either directly responsible...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385425766Author Peggy OrensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Details the possibilities and challenges of intergenerational activism and social movements Since 1976, the Peruvian movement of working children has fought to redefine age-based roles in society, including defending children's right to work. In The...

Organised Sexual Abuse offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary investigation of this phenomenon. Since the early 1980s, social workers and mental health professionals around the globe have encountered clients reporting sexual abuse by organized groups...

This is the first textbook in the "New Childhoods" series, examining attitudes towards, and experiences of childhood today."Rethinking Childhood" examines attitudes towards, and experiences of, childhood. Focus is placed on opposing the processes by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451664287Author Carolyn DalglieshFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310458128Author ZondervanPage Count 1536Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 177mm * 130mm * 32mm

This book provides an essential one-stop introduction to the key concepts, issues, policies and practices affecting child welfare, with particular emphasis on the changing nature of the relationship between child welfare and social policy. No other book...

This book explores the literary and cultural history behind certain Christmas and Halloween traditions, and examines the way that they have moved into broadcasting. It demonstrates how these horror traditions have become more domestic and personal, and...

Gangs are multifaceted and varied, so any attempt to understand them cannot be restricted to a singular approach. On Gangs provides a diverse and comprehensive survey of the available theories for understanding this social issue as well as the broad...

The first generation of children who were born into and raised in the digital world are coming of age and reshaping the world in their image. Our economy, our politics, our culture, and even the shape of our family life are being transformed. But who are...

"Rethinking Children and Research" considers the way people approach research into childhood and children's lives and examines the debates concerning the forms and goals of such research. Theoretical and practice-based perspectives are...

The Reality of Research with Children and Young People illustrates the process of carrying out research through thirteen `research stories'. Each story includes a piece of published research, accompanied by a commentary from the author of the research...

Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood provides a critical examination of the way we regulate children's access to certain knowledge and explores how this regulation contributes to the construction of childhood, to children's...

Throughout history, the right to vote has been extended to landowning men, the poor, minorities, women, and young adults. In each case, the meaning of democracy itself has been transformed. The one major group still denied suffrage is the third of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838147266Author W. F. DuncanFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Peaches PublicationsPublisher Peaches Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671870737Author William K. KilpatrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 468gDimensions(mm)...

This book showcases rights based participatory approaches to policy-making, practice and research with children and youth.Throughout its three parts, the book conceptualises a rights-based participatory approach; showcases constructive and innovative...

For decades, child protection systems have striven to provide responsive services to vulnerable children and families in the face of the constant change and instability caused by the bureaucratization of child protection. This book lends a strident voice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425229651Author Laurie Fivozinsky LeComerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam...

"Remarkable insight and sensitivity ...deepen[s] our understanding of human resilience and how people rebuild their lives from tragic circumstances." --KENNETH ROTH, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch "The stories in this book are eloquently and...

In the last decades of the 20th century, successive British governments have regarded adolescent pregnancy and childbearing as a significant public health and social problem. Youthful pregnancy was once tackled by attacking young, single mothers but New...

This new edition of A Handbook of Children and Young People's Participation brings together work from research and practice to reflect on some of the key developments in the field since the first edition published in 2010.Subtitled 'Conversations for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143111719Author Jessica Joelle AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061743818Author Elaine HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996827140Author Kelly Cs JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Kelly JohnsonPublisher Kelly JohnsonWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733328791Author Anthony RaymondFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Anthony RaymondPublisher Anthony RaymondWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The general well-being of British adolescents has been the topic of considerable debate in recent years, but too often this is based on myth rather than fact. Are today's young people more stressed, anxious, distressed or antisocial than they used to be?...

The Art of Being Black explores how young black Britons create their cultural identities. Claire Alexander rejects the common tendency to view black communities in terms of conflict, or as the focus of a problem; she offers a fresh exploration of the...

In a sea of troubling reporting about education, teaching, reading, and the wellbeing of teens, Ivey and Johnston bring some good news that shows what happens when we stop underestimating young people. This accessible book offers an engaging account of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375707193Author Neil HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 821gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 191mm...

Explores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what "the child" makes possibleThe concept of childhood contains many contested and ambivalent meanings that have extraordinary implications,...