Children's Studies

This book demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures. The authors explore the ways in which children's texts respond to social change and global politics. The book argues...

With Children and Youth provides a snapshot of emerging theories and perspectives in the field of child and youth care across North America. Well-known scholars and researchers present new and innovative critical perspectives, written in a provocative...

This book analyzes the Artists' House, a cultural center in Tehran, to place Iran's social and cultural transformation in a local-global context. The text addresses the interaction of Iranian youth with technology and mass communications, law, tradition,...

Using Foucault's history of discourse, this book examines the relationship between the invention of the printing press and the evolution of concepts regarding childhood and schooling. It is an interdisciplinary study of schooling, childhood, literacy,...

This book analyzes how the current generation of young adults enters the labour market and tries to create their own autonomous household, with or without children, exploring questions such as what does it mean to be a young adult in Europe today and...

Mission Statement: This book investigates issues surrounding the creation of social policy and support systems for children and families in this emerging democracy. Approaches advocated by progressively oriented Lithuanian educators, mental health and...

It is more important than ever to share best practices with emerging leaders in the social services and education fields, as leaders and students need to understand the practical application of policies and theories. This book will address the recurring...

As internet use is extending to younger children, there is an increasing need for research focus on the risks young users are experiencing, as well as the opportunities, and how they should cope. With expert contributions from diverse disciplines and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906156629Author Gilberto DimensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Latin America BureauPublisher Latin America BureauWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504315722Author Rosie RubinFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Balboa Press AuPublisher Balboa Press AuWeight(grams) 163g

This book is the first in-depth exploration of grandparents' relationships with adult children and grandchildren in divorced families. It asks what part grandparents might play in public policy and whether measures should be taken to support their...

Using innovative, participatory research methods, this book offers new insights into the issues surrounding parental separation or divorce from the unique perspective, and retrospectives, of young adults. As they look back on their childhood, their views...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789789936595Author Oche ItodoFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Oche ItodoPublisher Oche ItodoWeight(grams) 549g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356485938Author Shreyan BinuFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Clever Fox PublishingPublisher Clever Fox PublishingWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869781191Author Patti HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint CODESRIAPublisher CODESRIA

This book investigates a paradox of creative yet scripted play-how LEGO invites players to build 'freely' with and within its highly structured, ideologically-laden toy system. First, this book considers theories and methods for deconstructing LEGO as a...

This book offers rich critical perspectives on the marketing of a variety of toys, brands, and product categories. Topics include marketing undertaken by specific children's toy brands such as American Girl, Barbie, Disney, GoldieBlox, Fisher-Price, and...

This book investigates how constructed representations of the child have and continue to restrict children's opportunities to engage in moral discourses, and the implications this has on children's everyday experiences. By considering a moral dimension...

This book contributes to a better understanding of street children and youth within Sub-Saharan Africa. It investigates the psychological conditions of these children and determines how to reintegrate them into mainstream socio-economic activities. The...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890914125Author Jill SmartFormat HardbackPage Count 44Imprint Readersmagnet LLCPublisher Readersmagnet LLCWeight(grams) 440g

With an outward gaze focused on a better future, ""Between Good and Ghetto"" reflects the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. Drawing on personal encounters, traditions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962840439Author Natalia MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint APAPublisher APAWeight(grams) 327g

Birth stories, Della Pollock tells us, "are everywhere and nowhere," permeating and haunting our everyday lives. In this remarkable volume Pollock explores the myriad ways in which men and women recount the ritual performance of giving birth. Many of...

Focusing on the two essential factors of the construction of risk, this book presents research revolving around the staging of and the coping with Internet addiction in China. Using ethnographic methods, it investigates the signs and treatment of...

Youth Identities and Social Transformations in Modern Indonesia addresses current struggles and opportunities facing Indonesia's youth across the archipelago. Contributions to this volume delve into youth aspirations and their everyday lives - education;...

Focusing on children's citizenship, participation and rights, this edited collection draws on the work of a number of leading scholars in the sociology of childhood. The contributors explore a range of themes including: tensions between pragmatism and...

This book, uncovers the lived experiences of street-frequenting young people in Fiji. Typically viewed as 'out of place', these young people disturb what it means to be young and Fijian. Despite their marginal existence, they through their activities...

This book uses contemporary film to articulate a philosophical account of raising children. It forms part of a revaluation of the parent as a pedagogical figure, which stands in contrast to the instrumental accounts dominant in contemporary 'parenting'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916761476Author Rudi GeschFormat HardbackPage Count 34Imprint APAPublisher APAWeight(grams) 313g

Taking as its focus the erotic child in decadent aesthetics, this book explores the sexual and political stakes of an aestheticistexperience of rapture. Ohi examines the power of the work of art to transport, to disorient, to move, to extort the...

The social sciences offer a variety of theories on how children develop, and various theories and disciplines apply their own vocabularies and conceptualise different aspects of the processes of socialization. This book looks at the theorizing of...

This book provides new insights on the lives of children in street situations by providing analyses from a qualitative perspective on the sociology of childhood. It proposes some insightful perspectives on the current discussion about the rights of...

Many children learn from a young age to tell the truth. They also learn that some lies are necessary in order to survive in a world that paradoxically values truth-telling, but practises deception. This book examines this paradox by considering how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735716527Author Amber GilmoreFormat HardbackPage Count 38Imprint Creative Nurturing L.L.CPublisher Creative Nurturing L.L.CWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922618726Author Matthew BrainFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Inspiring PublishersPublisher Inspiring Publishers

Focusing on children's citizenship, participation and rights, this edited collection draws on the work of a number of leading scholars in the sociology of childhood. The contributors explore a range of themes including: tensions between pragmatism and...

This book analyzes the nature and experience of childhoods around the world at the beginning of the 21st century. Wide-ranging developments concerning children in the fields of social policy, sociology and politics have spurred significant growth in the...

Much concern has been expressed about the scandal of physical and sexual abuse by care workers of children living in residential homes but this is the first detailed study of the major problem of violence between children . Based on extensive interviews...

Making Space for Queer-Identifying Religious Youth charts young people's understanding of religion, investigating the experiences, choices and identities of queer - lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender - youth involved in inclusive churches. Rather than...