Symbolic Childhood (Popular Culture and Everyday Life, #5)
The Future of Childhood (Early Years)
Children create our future with their gifts and talents, yet what does childhood mean for us today? Is childhood vanishing under the impact of poverty, commercialism, stress, social breakdown and hot housing? And, given such threats to childhood, how can we create a healthy world for bringing up children? The "Alliance for Childhood" is a forum where individual and organisations can work together out of respect for childhood, in a world-wide effort to improve children's lives. The Alliance has c...
Fantasies of Neglect (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies)
by Pamela Robertson Wojcik
In our current era of helicopter parenting and stranger danger, an unaccompanied child wandering through the city might commonly be viewed as a victim of abuse and neglect. However, from the early twentieth century to the present day, countless books and films have portrayed the solitary exploration of urban spaces as a source of empowerment and delight for children. Fantasies of Neglect explains how this trope of the self-sufficient, mobile urban child originated and considers why it persists,...
This book empowers parents, educators, and counselors to prevent youth violence by teaching the thinking skills necessary for children and teens to deal with anger and frustration in healthy, productive ways. A longtime psychologist and counselor - as well as parent and past teacher - Jones-Smith offers research and vignettes to recognize the growing problem of youth violence, understand its causes, and help adults closest to children know techniques to nurture non-violence as a way of life. She...
Medieval children lived in a world rich in poetry, from lullabies, nursery rhymes, and songs to riddles, tongue twisters, and nonsensical verses. They read or listened to stories in verse: ballads of Robin Hood, romances, and comic tales. Poems were composed to teach them how to behave, eat at meals, hunt game, and even learn Latin and French. In Fleas, Flies, and Friars, Nicholas Orme, an expert on childhood in the Middle Ages, has gathered a wide variety of children's verse that circulated in...
Safeguarding and Mental Health Support in Contemporary Childhood
by Wendy Sims-Schouten
Approaches regarding safeguarding and mental health in childhood have been in constant flux. Framed within a critical realist ontology, this book provides insight into causal factors (individual, material, institutional) and social structures that impact on the continued legacy of the ‘deserving/undeserving' paradigm. Drawing on historical data from children taken into care by the Waifs and Strays Society (1881–1918) and contemporary data from interviews with young care leavers and safeguarding...
Young Enough to Change the World
by Michael R Connolly and Brie K Goolbis
Zur sozialen Konzeption des Kindes (Neuere Medizin- Und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, #17)
Bedeutend für die Einordnung der Konzeption des Kindes ist der Umstand, dass diese historisch geworden und sozial verankert ist. Der Band vereinigt Beiträge einer Heidelberger Ringvorlesung zur historischen und sozialen Konzeption des Kindes. Anhand der hier präsentierten unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven (Anthropologie, Medizin, Geschichts- und Literaturwissenschaft) zeigt sich die ganze Komplexität der historischen und sozial-anthropologischen Dimension des Themas. Die Autoren...