Children's Perspectives on Domestic Violence
by A Et Mullender, Professor Audrey Mullender, Gill Hague, MS Umme F Imam, MS Liz Kelly, MS Ellen Malos, and Linda Regan
`The research methodology and the problems encountered when studying a subject such as domestic violence, coupled with the ethical problems of researching with children, are discussed at length in the book. This gives a good insight into the intricacies of conducting such a research study. The research looked not only at children who were known to have direct contact with domestic violence, but also what children in general thought and felt about domestic violence. The presentation of the findin...
Children of Afghanistan (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture, #36)
The first comprehensive look at youth living in a country attempting to rebuild itself after three decades of civil conflict, Children of Afghanistan relies on the research and fieldwork of twenty-one experts to cover an incredible range of topics. Focusing on the full scope of childhood, from birth through young adulthood, this edited volume examines a myriad of issues: early childhood socialization in war and peace; education, literacy, vocational training, and apprenticeship; refugee life; me...
You?re Not Alone (Child Abduction and Kidnapping)
by Office of Justice Programs and U S Department of Justice
Cache Level 2 Introduction to Early Years Education and Care
by Carolyn Meggitt
Develop your understanding and skills with this textbook endorsed by CACHE for the new qualification. Written by Carolyn Meggitt, who is an expert in making key concepts easy for learners to understand, this comprehensive introduction will help you earn your qualification and progress to Level 3.-Includes case studies and lots of photographs to show you what really happens in actual settings -Organises all information in a way which makes things easy to read-Prepares you for assessment by linkin...
Every working day, many children are cared for by childminders. Childminding offers children a close relationship with a single carer, the child often a part of a small group of children, in a home environment based in the child's own community. Childminding support, in terms of training, networks and resources is crucial not only for childminders themselves but also for the quality of care they are able to offer children and families. This booklet sets out the development and progress of childm...
The status of American children at the beginning of the eighteenth century was so insignificant that writers apologized for wasting their talents on the subject and physicians seldom condescended to prescribe for them. the Changing attitude toward the child since then, however, can be classed as one of the great revolutions of history. In this volume Monica Kiefer traces the development of various phases of child life, including religion, manners and morals, education, health and recreation, thr...
Youth in Putin's Russia
This edited volume sheds light on the lives of young people in various central and peripheral regions of Russia, including youth belonging to different ethnic and religious groups and who have differing views on contemporary politics. While the literature continues to grow regarding the inclusion of youth in global contexts, the specific cultural, political, and economic circumstances of being young in Russia make the Russian case unique. Chapter authors focus on four key aspects that characteri...
Inventing the Child (Children's Literature and Culture)
by Joseph L Zornado
This book traces the historical roots of Western culture's stories of childhood in which the child is subjugated to the adult. Going back 400 years, it looks again at Hamlet, fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and Walt Disney cartoons. Inventing the Child is a highly entertaining, humorous, and at times acerbic account of what it means to be a child (and a parent) in America at the dawn of the new millennium. John Zornado explores the history and development of the concept of childhood, starting...
Growing Up and Leaving Home (Information booklet, #14)
The Gift of a Child (The "gift") (Gift Of... (Upper Room Books))
by Marion Stroud
In this gift book, color photographs, prayers, poems, and thoughts combine to create an enduring gift to mark the birth of a child.
The question of identity, and especially its formation among youth, has received significant academic attention as our worlds become intricately and unpredictably connected through satellite televisions, mobile telephones, Internet, and social networking platforms. Marking a distinct addition to such scholarship, this volume is an ethnographic study of the under-investigated issue of Indian Muslim youth's emergent subjectivity in a media-saturated globalized Indian society. The author develops t...
Growing up is a universal experience, but the particularities of homeland, culture, ethnicity, religion, family, and so on make every childhood unique. To give Western readers insight into what growing up in the Middle East was like in the twentieth century, this book gathers thirty-six original memoirs written by Middle Eastern men and women about their own childhoods. Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, a well-known writer of books and documentary films about women and the family in the Middle East, has...
Der humorvolle Umgang der Kinder im Schulalltag zeigt, wieviel Spass und Spasse Kinder miteinander teilen. Erstmals wurde das humorvolle Umgehen von Kindern miteinander im Schulalltag umfassend und pragnant mittels aussagekraftiger Methoden wie Verhaltensbeobachtungen, Videografie und Gesprachsaufzeichnungen dokumentiert, wissenschaftlich analysiert und kategorisiert. Das Buch wurde fur die vielen LeserInnen geschrieben, die Kinder besser verstehen und gewaltsamen Losungsversuchen von zwischenme...