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  • Active Ageing in the European Union

    Policy Convergence and Divergence

    by K. Hamblin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the adoption of 'active ageing' policies by EU15 nations and the impact on older peoples' work and retirement policy options. Policies examined include unemployment benefits, active labour market policies, partial pension receipt, pension principles, early retirement and incentives for deferral. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Researching Later Life and Ageing

    Expanding Qualitative Research Horizons

    by Miranda Leontowitsch ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This collection on researching later life and ageing critically reflects upon the qualitative methods used in gaining knowledge of under-researched groups of older people and sets out future research agendas. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Representing Ageing

    Images and Identities

    Edited by V. Ylänne ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This collection critically examines twenty-first century representations of ageing, focusing on various media images and discourses as well as individuals' own experiences and self-presentations of ageing, drawing on innovative new empirical data. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Children and Young People's Participation and Its Transformative Potential

    Learning from across Countries

    Edited by E.K.M. Tisdall, Andressa M. Gadda, Udi Mandel Butler ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book explores children and young people's involvement in public action. The contributors consider the potential of children and young people's participation to be transformative. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Adoption

    A Brief Social and Cultural History

    by P. Conn ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Combining advocacy and memoir with social and cultural history, this book offers a comparative, cross-cultural survey of the whole history of adoption that is grounded in the author's personal experience. ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Disabled Children's Childhood Studies

    Critical Approaches in a Global Context

    Edited by T. Curran, K. Runswick-Cole ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This collection offers first-hand accounts, research studies and in-depth theoretical explorations of disabled children's childhoods. The accounts oppose the global imposition of problematic views of disability and childhood and instead, offer an open discussion of responsive and ethical research approaches. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Ageing, Narrative and Identity

    New Qualitative Social Research

    by N. Hubble, P. Tew ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book outlines the methodology and results of the Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing Project, led by a research team from Brunel University, UK. It investigates how older people resist stereotypical cultural representations of ageing and demonstrates the importance of narrative understanding to social agency. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Children, Film and Literacy

    by Becky Parry ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children's lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which they create, play and perform familiar and unfamiliar, fantasy and everyday narratives and this narrative play is closely connected to identity, literacy and textual practices. Family is key to the encouragement of this social play and, at school, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Children, Media and Playground Cultures

    Ethnographic Studies of School Playtimes

    by R. Willett, C. Richards, J. Marsh, A. Burn, J. C Bishop ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Youth
    Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures and playground experiences, analyzing a range of issues such as learning, fantasy, communication and identity. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Care Between Work and Welfare in European Societies

    Edited by B. Pfau-Effinger, T. Rostgaard ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides insights into the theoretical framework of 'tensions' related to care for children and the elderly. It analyzes if, and under what conditions, welfare state reforms have contributed to strengthening existing tensions, creating new tensions, or relaxing such tensions. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Children and Migration

    At the Crossroads of Resiliency and Vulnerability

    by Marisa O. Ensor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Providing a comprehensive analysis of the increasingly common phenomenon of child migration, this volume examines the experiences of children in a wide variety of migratory circumstances including economic child migrants, transnational students, trafficked, stateless, fostered, unaccompanied and undocumented children. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Innovations in Youth Research

    Edited by S. Heath, C. Walker ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores and celebrates imaginative and creative approaches to youth research, showcasing a wide range of innovative methods including music elicitation, mental mapping, blog analysis and mobile methods. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD