Children's Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890916044Author Catherine Shelby HaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Readersmagnet LLCPublisher Readersmagnet LLCWeight(grams) 367g

This collection explores mobile childhoods: from Latvia and Estonia to Finland; from Latvia to the United Kingdom; from Russia to Finland; and cyclical mobility by the Roma between Romania and Finland. The chapters examine how east-to-north European...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788119178520Author Vivaan AhirFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint NEXUS ENTERPRISEPublisher NEXUS ENTERPRISE

This book addresses the development of our understanding of the abuse and neglect in the lives of children with disabilities. Disabilities in childhood uniquely dispose children for their abuse and neglect. Additionally, abuse and neglect dispose...

This book brings together a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives on conceptualization, measurement, multidimensional impacts and policy and service responses to address child and family poverty. It illuminates issues and trends through country...

This textbook showcases innovative approaches to the interdisciplinary field of childhood and youth studies, examining how young people in a wide range of contemporary and historical contexts around the globe live their young lives as subjects, objects,...

This book directs critical attention to one of the most ubiquitous and yet under-analyzed games, Minecraft. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork into mobile games in Australian homes, the authors seek to take Minecraft seriously as a cultural...

While studies of San children have attained the peculiar status of having delineated the prototype for hunter-gatherer childhood, relatively few serious ethnographic studies of San children have been conducted since an initial flurry of research in the...

This interdisciplinary book analyzes the nature of child justice administration in Africa, particularly focusing on Nigeria and South Africa. The author uses a comparative approach in analyzing the legal regime and practice of child justice...

This interdisciplinary book analyzes the nature of child justice administration in Africa, particularly focusing on Nigeria and South Africa. The author uses a comparative approach in analyzing the legal regime and practice of child justice...

This book provides an interdisciplinary framework for school intervention into child and adolescent maltreatment, highlighting the unique potential for schools to identify and mitigate the long-term impacts of childhood trauma on children's educational...

Do people make friends with those who are culturally and socially different to themselves? Friendship and Diversity explores the social relationships of adults and children living in highly diverse localities in London. The authors examine how social...

This collection brings together perspectives drawn from a range of international scholars who have conducted research into the applications of neo-tribal theory. The concept of the neo-tribe was first introduced by the French sociologist Michel Mafessoli...

Childhoods at the Intersection of the Local and the Global examines the imposition of the modern Western notion of childhood, which is now deemed as universal, on other cultures and explores how local communities react to these impositions in various...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869785977Author Professor Michael BourdillonFormat PaperbackImprint CodesriaPublisher CodesriaWeight(grams) 358g

This book provides a sociological examination of young people's pathways into, and out of, substance abuse. Drawing from in-depth, life-history interviews with over sixty young people who have experienced problematic drug use, the author uses...

This book explores the conceptualisation and measurement of youth quality of life in sub-Saharan Africa. Further, it addresses methodological questions relevant to the development of measures and gaining an understanding of youth quality of life in this...

This edited volume examines child exploitation in the Global South. It introduces several case studies and interviews articulated around two features: exploitation within the family and exploitation in relation to social contexts. The research shows that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129144812Author Neeru VajpaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Red TurtlePublisher Rupa & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890916051Author Catherine Shelby HaleFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Readersmagnet LLCPublisher Readersmagnet LLCWeight(grams) 644g

This critical account of the American Girl brand explores what its books and dolls communicate to girls about femininity, racial identity, ethnicity, and what it means to be an American. Emilie Zaslow begins by tracing the development of American Girl...

Friendship and Educational Choice provides a unique insight into how young people go about making decisions about their educational options and the subtle, yet crucial, influence of friends and peers on these processes. It argues that focusing on both...

This book offers a timely and detailed exploration and analysis of key contemporary issues and challenges in child sexual abuse, which holds great relevance for scholarly, legal, policy, professional and clinical audiences worldwide. The book draws...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869782556Author Donald Anthony MwiturubaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint CODESRIAPublisher CODESRIAWeight(grams) 190g

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 provides an interdisciplinary framework for school intervention into child and adolescent maltreatment, highlighting the unique potential for schools to identify and mitigate the long-term impacts of childhood trauma on children's educational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890910677Author Ted DorffFormat HardbackPage Count 34Imprint Readersmagnet LLCPublisher Readersmagnet LLCWeight(grams) 381g

This book follows the transnational lives of children growing up as British Bangladeshi individuals in multicultural London. Exploring the array of international events, communities and forces which influence them, Zeitlyn examines the socialisation...

The dominant cultural script is that the Baby Boomers have 'had it all', thereby depriving younger generations of the opportunity to create a life for themselves. Bristow provides a critical account of this discourse by locating the problematisation of...

This book addresses new avenues in child abuse prevention research that will expand our capacity to protect children. These new avenues result from the emergence of new research methods made possible through technologic advances, an understanding of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648893834Author Blair MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon PressWeight(grams) 603g

This book presents and brings together research on child sexual abuse from various countries and cultures in the Arab Region. It addresses the multiple types of Child Sexual Abuse Exploitation and Trafficking (CSAET) and responds to the expanding burden...

This is an ethnographic account of the transnational caregiving experiences and practices of Australian migrants and refugees, caring for their elderly parents in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and New Zealand. It describes how people respond to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783030255701Author Aldrie Henry-LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Palgrave MacMillanPublisher Palgrave MacMillanWeight(grams) 148g

This book explores young people's 'nested' and 'political' ecological relationships with crime through an empirical investigation of the important 'places' and 'spaces' in young people's lives; in their social relationships with peers and family members;...

This book provides a nuanced, complex, comparative analysis of adolescent girls' migration and mobility in the Global South. The stories and the narratives of migrant girls collected in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Sudan guide the readers in drawing the...

This volume describes how children's experience with violence may affect and endanger their education, as well as their physical safety and their general well-being. It includes all forms of physical , psychological and sexual abuse, and neglect against...

Drawing on qualitative interviews with forty middle-class mothers living in Northern Ireland and the US, this book explores the strategies women adopt, as they take on and creatively re-make motherhood in ways which allow them to cope.Book...

This book explores the ways in which notions of childhood are being influenced by a rapidly expanding consumer-media culture in the 21st Century. It has been argued that new stages of childhood are being created and defined by children's role as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088195185Format HardbackPage Count 44Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 331g