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  • av Rachel Burr
    521,-

    Draws on the author's daily observations of working children in Hanoi and argues that the youngsters are misunderstood by the majority of agencies that seek to support them. Looking at the experiences of children in contemporary Vietnam, she provides an analysis of how internationally led human rights agendas are often received on the local level.

  • - The Role of School and Culture
    av Lisa M. Nunn
    443 - 1 581,-

    A provocative work that will prompt a thorough reevaluation of the culture of secondary education, Defining Student Success shows how different schools, promoting modified versions of larger cultural ideas of success, foster distinct understandings of what it takes to succeed--understandings that do more to reproduce a socioeconomic status quo than to promote upward mobility.

  • - Children and Youth on the Streets of Santo Domingo
    av Jon M. Wolseth
    467,-

  • - Children's Literature and American Political Conservatism
    av Michelle Ann Abate
    410 - 1 621,-

  • - Autobiography, Trauma, and Memory
    av Kate Douglas
    492,-

    The late 1990s and early 2000s witnessed a surge in the publication and popularity of autobiographical writings about childhood. Linking literary and cultural studies, Drawing on trauma and memory studies and theories of authorship and readership, this title offers commentary on the triumphs, trials, and tribulations that have shaped this genre.

  • - A Global History
     
    541,-

    Examines the centrality of girlhood in shaping women's lives. Scholars study how age and gender, along with a multitude of other identities, work together to influence the historical experience. Spanning a broad time frame from 1750 to the present, thematically-arranged essays and case studies illuminate the various continuities and differences in girls' lives across culture and region.

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    423,-

    Whether First Communion or bar mitzvah, religious traditions play a central role in the lives of American children. This book presents a collection of essays that reveal how various religions interpret and mediate their traditions to help guide children and their parents in navigating the opportunities and challenges of American life.

  • - Child Protection, Punishment, and Piety in Zanzibar Schools
    av Franziska Fay
    466 - 1 806,-

  • - A Childhood Journey for New Opportunities
    av Kathie Carpenter
    414 - 1 806,-

  • - Japan's Untold Story
    av Walter Hamilton
    539 - 2 019,-

  • - Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism
    av David M. Rosen
    455,-

    Armies of the Young argues against the assumption that child soldiers are simply a hideous manifestation of adult criminal exploitation. Using specific examples it shows how children are not always passive victims, but often make rational decisions that the one thing worse than fighting is not fighting. It urges a reconsideration of the issue.

  • - Asymmetries of Innocence and the Cultural Politics of Child Development
    av Hannah Dyer
    369 - 1 647,-

  • - Reciprocity and Respect among Young Men in Liberia
    av Abby Hardgrove
    423 - 1 346,-

    Explores how ex-combatants and other post-war youth negotiated a depleted and difficult social and cultural landscape in the years following Liberia's fourteen-year bloody civil war. Unlike others who study child soldiers, Abby Hardgrove's ethnography looks at both former combatants and also the youth who were not recruited to fight.

  • - The Global Fight against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia
    av Jean Hunleth
    504 - 1 581,-

    In Zambia, due to the rise of TB and the connected HIV epidemic, a large number of children have experienced the illness or death of at least one parent. This study examines how well intentioned practitioners fail to realise that children take on active caregiving roles when their guardians become seriously ill and demonstrates why understanding children's care is crucial for global health policy.

  • - Transforming Racial Baggage
    av Maria Kromidas
    443 - 1 621,-

    Cosmopolitanism - the genuine appreciation of cultural and racial diversity - is often associated with adult worldliness and sophistication. Yet, as this innovative new book suggests, children growing up in multicultural environments might be the most cosmopolitan group of all.

  • - African American Girls and Inner City Violence
    av Nikki Jones
    443,-

    Shows the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. This title presents an account of how African American girls negotiate schools and neighborhoods governed by the so-called 'code of the street' - the form of street justice that governs violence in distressed urban areas.

  • - Children Coping with Chronic Illness
    av Cindy Dell Clark
    383,-

    The author's 46 interviews with the families of children with chronic illness gives an understanding of how the children comprehend their illnesses and how parents struggle daily to care for their kids while trying to give them a ""normal"" childhood.

  • av Laurie Schaffner
    455,-

    Focuses on the girls' experiences of violence and the inequities of the criminal justice system. Offering a critical assessment of what she describes as a gender-insensitive juvenile justice system, the author takes us inside female detention centers and explores the worlds of those who are incarcerated.

  • - Refugee Youth and the Pursuit of Identity
    av Laura Moran
    1 739,-

  • - Negotiating Young Lives and Health in New Zealand
    av Julie Spray
    474 - 1 795,-

  • - Understanding the Lives of Grandchildren Raised by Grandparents
    av Rachel E. Dunifon
    414 - 1 621,-

    Today, approximately 1.6 million American children live in what social scientists call ""grandfamilies" - households in which children are being raised by their grandparents. In You've Always Been There for Me, Rachel Dunifon uses data gathered from grandfamilies in New York to analyse their unique strengths and distinct needs.

  • - History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children
     
    443,-

    In industrialized democracies, a broad consensus developed that children should not work, but rather learn and play in settings designed and built with these specific purposes in mind. Here, the authors extract common threads in children's understandings of their material worlds, and show how the experience of modernity varies for young people.

  • - American Holiday Symbolism Among Children and Adults
    av Cindy Dell Clark
    406 - 1 739,-

  • - Education and Civic Identity in Transition
    av Michelle J. Bellino
    504 - 1 581,-

    In the aftermath of armed conflict, how do new generations of young people learn about peace, justice, and democracy? Michelle J. Bellino describes how, following Guatemala's civil war, adolescents at four schools in urban and rural communities learn about their country's history of authoritarianism and develop civic identities within a fragile postwar democracy.

  • av Ingrid A. Nelson
    410 - 1 621,-

    Increasingly, educational researchers and policy-makers are finding that extracurricular programmes make a major difference in the lives of disadvantaged youth. Why Afterschool Matters closely follows ten Mexican American students who attended the same extracurricular programme in California, then chronicles its long-term effects on their lives, from eighth grade to early adulthood.

  • - Girls, Parents, Drugs, and Juvenile Justice
    av Vera Lopez
    475 - 1 621,-

    Focuses on the lives of sixty-five drug-using girls in the juvenile justice system who grew up in families characterized by parental drug use, violence, and child maltreatment. Vera Lopez situates girls' relationships with parents who fail to live up to parenting norms and examines how these relationships change over time and contribute to the girls' drug use and involvement in the justice system.

  • - Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction
    av Pamela Robertson Wojcik
    410 - 1 621,-

    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, even as it goes against the grain of social reality.

  • - Reimagining Survivors
    av Elzbieta M. Gozdziak
    443 - 1 581,-

    Trafficked children are portrayed by the media - and even by child welfare specialists - as hapless victims who are forced to migrate from a poor country to the United States, where they serve as sex slaves. But as Elzbieta M. Gozdziak reveals in Trafficked Children in the United States, the picture is far more complex.

  • - The Natural Origins of Girls' Organizations in America
    av Susan A. Miller
    410,-

    In the early years of the twentieth century, Americans began to recognize adolescence as a developmental phase distinct from both childhood and adulthood. This title explores the girls' organizations that sprang up in the first half of the twentieth century from a socio-historical perspective.

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