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Rethinking Childhood » Read Now
by Peter B. Pufall, Richard P. Unsworth. 292 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

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 patronized or idealized by adults. Rarely do...
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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 patronized or idealized by adults. Rarely do we look for the strengths within children that can serve as the foundation for growth and development. In Rethinking Childhood, twenty contributors, coming from the disciplines of anthropology, government, law, psychology, education, religion, philosophy, and sociology, provide a multidisciplinary view of childhood by listening and understanding the ways children shape their own futures. Topics include education, poverty, family life, divorce, neighborhood life, sports, the internet, and legal status. In all these areas, children have both voice and agency. They construct their own social networks and social reality, sort out their own values, and assess and cope with the perplexing world around them. The contributors present ideas that lead not only to new analyses but also to innovative policy applications. Taken together, these essays develop a new paradigm for understanding childhood as children experience these years. This paradigm challenges readers to develop fresh ways of listening to children's voices that enable both children and adults to cross the barriers of age, experience, and stereotyping that make communication difficult. A volume in the Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies, edited by Myra Bluebond-Langner.
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The Psychology of Infancy and Childhood: Evolutionary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives » Read Now
by Harold D. Fishbein. 435 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library
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Childhood and Adolescence: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Applications » Read Now
by Uwe P. Gielen, Jaipaul Roopnarine. 470 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

Distinguished authors detail cross-cultural issues affecting youngsters, including parenting practices, gender role socialization, risk and resilience in childhood, and more. The text challenges existing beliefs about childhood development, offers current research on childrearing and socialization...
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Distinguished authors detail cross-cultural issues affecting youngsters, including parenting practices, gender role socialization, risk and resilience in childhood, and more. The text challenges existing beliefs about childhood development, offers current research on childrearing and socialization practices in diverse cultures, and examines social and educational policies as they relate to children and adolescents. Socialization practices within families, communities, and educational settings are included.
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Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood » Read Now
by Shirley R. Steinberg, Joe L. Kincheloe. 274 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Children and their parent's money are subject to an almost constant marketing pitch that sells games, videos, and a large volume of merchandise. The authors examine this modern consciousness changing culture in a multidisciplinary manner.
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Childhood Studies: A Reader in Perspectives of Childhood » Read Now
by Jean Mills, Richard Mills. 206 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

This text brings together a variety of perspectives on the study of childhood, how it has been treated historically and how such a concept is developing as we move into a new century.
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Overcoming Childhood Misfortune: Children Who Beat the Odds » Read Now
by Kim Hoey, Warren A. Rhodes. 145 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Traditionally, psychology has concentrated on factors that contribute to individuals becoming unhealthy and has paid very little attention to those individuals who become healthy when all indications would predict the opposite. Many children overcome adverse conditions and become successful adults...
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Traditionally, psychology has concentrated on factors that contribute to individuals becoming unhealthy and has paid very little attention to those individuals who become healthy when all indications would predict the opposite. Many children overcome adverse conditions and become successful adults. Their stories often go untold, taking backseat to stories and investigations of failed lives and broken dreams. This book retrospectively explores the lives of several individuals who were able to overcome hardships and excel professionally. The authors believe that, through the lives of these individuals, the reader can learn how to help others overcome adverse life circumstances.
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Images of Childhood » Read Now
by C. Philip Hwang, Michael E. Lamb, Irving E. Sigel. 212 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library
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Regarding Children: A New Respect for Childhood and Families » Read Now
by Herbert Anderson, Susan B. W. Johnson. 138 pgs.

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As it examines issues pertinent to the successful rearing of children, this important book empowers parents and others who care for and nurture children to learn how to recognize the needs of the individual child--his or her full humanity--especially critical in our culture where there is a...
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As it examines issues pertinent to the successful rearing of children, this important book empowers parents and others who care for and nurture children to learn how to recognize the needs of the individual child--his or her full humanity--especially critical in our culture where there is a pervasive attitude of contempt for the vulnerable and the needy.
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Connecting Children: Care and Family Life in Later Childhood » Read Now
by Kalwant Bhopal, Julia Brannen, Ellen Heptinstall. 232 pgs.

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Connecting Children focuses on children's understandings of care and their views of different family lives. It portrays the lives of children aged 11-12 and shows how families connect children in different ways both in the household and also in their wider kinship networks.
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Kids Talk: Strategic Language Use in Later Childhood » Read Now
by Carolyn Temple Adger, Susan M. Hoyle. 290 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

This collection of essays offers a cross-disciplinary perspective on the skilful and varied ways in which young people of different ages, classes and ethnicities construct their world through language.
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Too Scared to Cry: Psychic Trauma in Childhood » Read Now
by Lenore Terr. 372 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

Winner of the Blanche Ittleson Award for her research on childhood trauma, clinical professor of psychiatry Terr examines the many ways that trauma has changed not only the children she's treated, but all of us. She demonstrates that traumatized children can be helped, showing that there is hope for the innocent victims of our frightening world.
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The Development and Treatment of Childhood Aggression » Read Now
by Debra J. Pepler, Kenneth H. Rubin. 472 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library
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Social Withdrawal, Inhibition, and Shyness in Childhood » Read Now
by Kenneth H. Rubin, Jens B. Asendorpf. 368 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library
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Understanding Childhood Obesity » Read Now
by J. Clinton Smith. 160 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

A clear explanation of causes, diagnosis, and treatment of childhood obesity
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Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood » Read Now
by Allison James, Alan Prout. 264 pgs.

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This edition of James and Prout's seminal work on childhood study contains a collection of articles which draw on a variety of disciplines to show how childhood is constructed in society, and the direction in which childhood study is moving.
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The Future of Childhood » Read Now
by Alan Prout. 168 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

In this ground-breaking book, Alan Prout discusses the place of children and childhood in modern society. He critically examines 'the new social studies of childhood', reconsidering some of its key assumptions and positions, and arguing that childhood is heterogeneous and complex. The study of...
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In this ground-breaking book, Alan Prout discusses the place of children and childhood in modern society. He critically examines 'the new social studies of childhood', reconsidering some of its key assumptions and positions, and arguing that childhood is heterogeneous and complex. The study of childhood requires a broad set of intellectual resources and an interdisciplinary approach. Chapters include discussion of: * the changing social and cultural character of contemporary childhood, and the weakening boundary between adulthood and childhood * a look back at the emergence of childhood studies in the nineteenth and twentieth century * the nature/culture dichotomy * the role of material artefacts and technologies in the construction of contemporary childhood. This book is essential reading for students and academics in the field of childhood studies, sociology, and education.
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