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  • The Short Guide to Working with Children and Young People

    by Liesl Conradie, Tyrrell Golding ...
    Series series Short Guides
    Childhood and youth have become increasingly important key concepts across a range of disciplines, professions and studies. The short guide to working with children and young people is an accessible introduction into the main concepts, developments and policy related to this exciting area of work. Divided into two parts, the opening chapters prepare readers to think about work with children and ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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  • Understanding Childhood

    A Cross Disciplinary Approach

    Edited by Mary Jane Kehily ...
    Series Book 1 - Open University Childhood
    Childhood has become central to socio-political debates and policy initiatives both nationally and globally. Despite the privileges afforded to children in the West, Western childhoods are no longer seen as the 'ideal' to which all should aspire. Recent reports and policy concerns suggest that growing up in the West may be marked by the commercialisation of childhood, leading to unhappiness, poor ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Child to Soldier

    Stories from Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army

    by Opiyo Oloya ...
    What happens when children are forced to become child soldiers? How are they transformed from children to combatants? In Child to Soldier, Opiyo Oloya addresses these timely, troubling questions by exploring how Acholi children in Northern Uganda, abducted by infamous warlord Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), become soldiers.Oloya – himself an Acholi, a refugee from Idi Amin’s rule ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Liverpool's Children in the 1950s

    by Pamela Russell ...
    Full of the warmth and excitement of growing up in the 1950s, awakening nostalgia for times that seemed cosy and carefree with families at last enjoying peacetime, this book is packed with the experience of school days, playtime, holidays, toys, games, clubs and hobbies conjuring up the genuine atmosphere of a bygone era. As the decade progressed, rationing ended and children's pocket money was ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Importance of Being Innocent

    Why We Worry About Children

    by Joanne Faulkner ...
    The Importance of Being Innocent addresses the current debate in Australia and internationally regarding the sexualisation of children, predation on them by pedophiles and the risks apparently posed to their 'innate innocence' by perceived problems and threats in contemporary society. Joanne Faulkner argues that, contrary to popular opinion, social issues have been sensationally expounded in moral ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • The Moral Life of Children

    by Robert Coles ...
    An in-depth investigation from the renowned child psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author: "Fascinating."— Los Angeles Times Book ReviewIn this searching, vivid inquiry, Robert Coles shows how children struggle with questions of moral choice. Bringing to life the voices of children from a rich diversity of backgrounds, including regions plagued by poverty or social unrest, he explores their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Childhood and Disability in the Nordic Countries

    Being, Becoming, Belonging

    Edited by R. Traustadóttir, B. Ytterhus, S. Egilson, B. Berg ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This collection provides a comprehensive insight into disabled children and youth in Nordic countries. It seeks to understand the experiences of children from their own perspectives and takes a multidisciplinary approach grounded in the new social studies of childhood and the Nordic relational approach to disability. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Haircuts by Children and Other Evidence for a New Social Contract

    by Darren O'Donnell ...
    A cultural planner's immodest proposal: change how we think about children and we just might change the world.We live in an ‘adultitarian’ state, where the rules are based on very adult priori- ties and understandings of reality. Young people are disenfranchised and power- less; they understand they’re subject to an authoritarian regime, whether they buy into it or not. But their unique ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Black Children in Hollywood Cinema

    Cast in Shadow

    by Debbie Olson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores cultural conceptions of the child and the cinematic absence of black children from contemporary Hollywood film. Debbie Olson argues that within the discourse of children’s studies and film scholarship in relation to the conception of “the child,” there is often little to no distinction among children by race—the “child” is most often discussed as a universal entity, as the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Babes in Tomorrowland

    Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930–1960

    by Nicholas Sammond ...
    Linking Margaret Mead to the Mickey Mouse Club and behaviorism to Bambi, Nicholas Sammond traces a path back to the early-twentieth-century sources of “the normal American child.” He locates the origins of this hypothetical child in the interplay between developmental science and popular media. In the process, he shows that the relationship between the media and the child has long been much more ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media

    Edited by Vanessa Joosen ...
    Contributions by Gökçe Elif Baykal, Lincoln Geraghty, Verónica Gottau, Vanessa Joosen, Sung-Ae Lee, Cecilia Lindgren, Mayako Murai, Emily Murphy, Mariano Narodowski, Johanna Sjöberg, Anna Sparrman, Ingrid Tomkowiak, Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer, Ilgim Veryeri Alaca, and Elisabeth WesselingMedia narratives in popular culture often assign interchangeable characteristics to childhood and old age, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • ‘Children Out of Place’ and Human Rights

    In Memory of Judith Ennew

    Edited by Antonella Invernizzi, Manfred Liebel, Brian Milne, Rebecca Budde ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume brings together tributes to Judith Ennew’s work and approach based on issues related to children she once referred to as ‘out of place’, that is to say children whose living conditions and ways of life appear far removed from Western images of childhood. It includes contributions on working children, children living on the street, orphans and victims of sexual exploitation. It covers ... Read more

    $89.09 USD