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1 online resource (11 pages) |
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Introduction: Children in society, culture, and the world -- Immigration and education in the United States -- The IQ : a cultural and historical framework -- Creating new identities : youth and ethnicity in New York City high schools in the 1930s and 1940s -- Making and remaking an event : the Leopold and Loeb case in American culture -- A sign of family disorder? : changing representations of parental kidnapping -- Bringing it home : children, technology, and family in the post-World War II world -- Children and globalization -- Children in global migrations -- Children of a new world |
| Summary |
Paula S. Fass, a pathbreaker in children's history and the history of education, turns her attention in Children of a New World to the impact of globalization on children's lives, both in the United States and on the world stage. Globalization, privatization, the rise of the "work-centered" family, and the triumph of the unregulated marketplace, she argues, are revolutionizing the lives of children today. Fass begins by considering the role of the school as a fundamental component of social formation, particularly in a nation of immigrants like the United States. She goes on to examine childre |
| Notes |
Fass_CHILDREN_frnt; Fass_pi_x.pdf |
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Children -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Children -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Education -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Immigrant children -- Education -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Socialization -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Children in popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Globalization -- Social aspects
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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Children
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Children in popular culture
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Children -- Social conditions
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Education
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Globalization -- Social aspects
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Immigrant children -- Education
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Socialization
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814728529 |
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0814728529 |
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