| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 452 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Why social studies of childhood? : an introduction to the handbook / Jens Qvortrup, William A. Corsaro and Michael-Sebastian Honig -- Childhood as a structural form / Jens Qvortrup -- Agency / Allison James -- Child development and the development of childhood / Martin Woodhead -- How is the child constituted in childhood studies? / Michael-Sebastian Honig -- Method and methodology in childhood research / Andreas Lange and Johanna Mierendorff -- The evolution of childhood in Western Europe, c.1400-c.1750 / Harry Hendrick -- Transitions to modernity / John Gillis -- Institutionalization as a secular trend / Helga Zeiher -- Pluralisation of family forms / An-Magritt Jensen -- Generational order / Leena Alanen -- Generational relations at family levey / Berry Mayall -- Children, generational relations and intergenerational justice / Thomas Olk -- Collective identities / Heinz Hengst -- Children's bodies / Laura Fingerson -- Policies in early childhood education and care : potentialities for agency, play and learning / Gunilla Dahlberg -- Localities : a holistic frame of reference for appraising social justice in children's lives / John McKendrick -- Children as problems, problems of children / Katherine Brown Rosier -- Childhood : leisure, culture and peers / Ivar Frønes -- From child labour to working children's movements / Olga Nieuwenhuys -- Peer culture / William A. Corsaro -- Play and games / Ann-Carita Evaldsson -- Children as consumers / Daniel Thomas Cook -- Children and television / David Buckingham -- Children and digital media : online, on site, on the go / Kirsten Drotner -- Children's rights as human rights : reading the UNCRC / Michael Freeman -- Interests in and responsibility for children and their life-worlds / Doris Bühler-Niederberger and Heintz Sünker -- Transnational mobilities and childhoods / Adrian Bailey -- Closing the gap between rights and the realities of children's lives / Natalie Hevener Kaufman and Irene Rizzini |
| Summary |
A landmark publication in the field, this state of the art reference work, with contributions from leading thinkers across a range of disciplines, is an essential guide to the study of children and childhood, and sets out future research agendas for the subject |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Children -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Children -- Social conditions -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Child development -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Children -- Europe -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Children -- Europe -- Social conditions -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Child development -- Europe -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Children's Studies.
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Child development
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Children
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Children -- Social conditions
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Ontwikkelingspsychologie.
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Kinderen.
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Jeugdsociologie.
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Qvortrup, Jens
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Corsaro, William A
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Honig, Michael-Sebastian, 1950-
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| ISBN |
9780230274686 |
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0230274684 |
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