Children's Studies

2020 Scholarly Contributions to Teaching and Learning Award from the ASA The key to success, our culture tells us, is a combination of talent and hard work. Why then, do high schools that supposedly subscribe to this view send students to college at such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369319616Author Nigel LattaFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 581g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884142959Author Kristine Henriksen GarrowayFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint Society of Biblical LiteraturePublisher Society of Biblical...

Cosmopolitanism-the genuine appreciation of cultural and racial diversity-is often associated with adult worldliness and sophistication. Yet, as this innovative new book suggests, children growing up in multicultural environments might be the most...

Being a child in American society can be problematic. Twenty percent of American children live in poverty, parents are divorcing at high rates, and educational institutions are not always fulfilling their goals. Against this backdrop, children are often...

This book applies theoretical models that reflect the mediated, hybrid, and nomadic global scenes within which GenX artists and writers live, think, and work. Henseler touches upon critical insights in comparative media studies, cultural studies, and...

Taking a sociocultural approach to understanding violence, the authors in this collection examine how norms of gender, culture and educational practice contribute to school violence, providing strategies to intervene in and address violence in...

Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why. Applying Derridean deconstruction to case studies on youth sexuality, violence and developmental neuroscience, Gabriel offers a fresh perspective on how...

Like toddlers all over the world, Sri Lankan children go through a period that in the U.S. is referred to as the "terrible twos." Yet once they reach elementary school age, they appear uncannily passive, compliant, and undemanding compared to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820449890Author Gaile S. CannellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams)...

Loneliness in Later Life concerns the personal and social changes associated with ageing, a topic which is becoming increasingly popular as the number of those in the Third Age themselves reaches unprecedented levels. It analyses the nature of...

Complicating the common view that immigrant incorporation is a top-down process, determined largely by parents, Vikki Katz explores how children actively broker connections that enable their families to become woven into the fabric of American life...

Though the dynamics of immigrant family life has gained attention from scholars, little is known about the younger generation, often considered 'invisible'. ""Translating Childhoods"", a unique contribution to the study of immigrant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578270203Author Tip BurwellFormat HardbackPage Count 30Imprint Ground Level PublishingPublisher Ground Level PublishingWeight(grams) 286g

This first comparative study of ageing and social policy in two major European countries is based on a unique set of joint analyses of the major policy areas affecting older people. These analyses reveal both differences and similarities in policy and...

This book explores how young children and new families are located in the consumer world of affluent societies. The author assesses the way in which the value of infants and monetary value in markets are realized together, and examines how the meanings...

"Francis Iannni . . . has drawn upon over 1500 hours of listening to 300 adolescents, studied over a period of ten years, to weave a mosaic of insights into the protean nature of adolescence."--Edmund W. Gordon, Yale University.Book...

This book evaluates three decades of change in employment and social regulation, questioning the paradigm of Post-Fordism as a stable development within contemporary capitalism. Bringing together leading commentators, it critiques the assumption that...

Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work, authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, incorporates recent theoretical advances and experiences to explore the place of labor in children's lives and development.This groundbreaking book considers...

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...

This book provides a disturbing account of the reality of child abuse. Based on data from 152 countries, Einar Helander considers the physical, societal, economic and judicial consequences of child abuse, proposing a universal, community-based prevention...

Located within a burgeoning therapeutic/self-help culture this book explores stories of childhood sexual abuse, 'recovered memories' and multiple personalities, and explodes the myths surrounding women who, without memories, redefine themselves as...

Children today are growing up in a world of global media. Many have also become global citizens, through their experience of migration and transnational networks. This book reviews research and debate in the media, globalization, migration and childhood,...

The computer games industry is one of the most vibrant industries today whose potential for growth seems inexhaustible. This book adopts a multi-disciplinary approach and captures emerging trends as well as the issues and challenges faced by businesses,...

This book is a comparative analysis of children of international migrants in Britain, France and Germany, using survey data from the EFFNATIS project. By analysing data on linguistic, structural, political, religious and socio-cultural behaviour, it...

Like the occupants of the children's table at a family dinner, scholars working in childhood studies can seem sidelined from the ""adult"" labor of humanities scholarship. The Children's Table brings together scholars from...

On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed twelve fellow students and one teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Two of the victims of the Columbine massacre, Cassie Bernall and Rachel Scott, reportedly were asked by the...

Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children come to understand the process of socialization at home, at school and in the neighbourhood as an embodied and biographical experience.About the AuthorAllison...

Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements to lifespan? Predictions vary, but children's status as human embodiments of the future puts them at the centre of attempts to shape the world and the discipline of...

One of the United States great promises is that all children will be given the opportunity to work to achieve a comfortable standard of living. That promise has faded profoundly for children who grow up in poverty, particularly black and Hispanic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432747510Author Genie EndersFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432757816Author Michael D MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432735456Author Robin Moore-ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 86g

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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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890912503Author Preston Ivan MedureFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Readersmagnet LLCPublisher Readersmagnet LLCWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960629753Author Ted DorffFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Readersmagnet LLCPublisher Readersmagnet LLCWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922792631Author Kristine FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Inspiring PublishersPublisher Inspiring Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890912862Author Teresita A BartolomeFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Readersmagnet LLCPublisher Readersmagnet LLCWeight(grams) 104g