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Key concepts in childhood studies / Allison James and Adrian James.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Los Angeles, [Calif.] ; London : SAGE, 2008.Description: vi, 152 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781412908795:
  • 9781412908788:
  • 1412908795 (m)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.23
Contents:
Age -- Agency-- Best interests -- Child -- Child-focused Research -- Child-friendly -- Childho Childhood Studies -- Children's Voices -- Citizenship -- Competence -- Cultural Politics of Childhood -- Cultural Relativism -- Delinquency -- Developmental Psychology -- Disappearance or Loss of Childhood -- Diversity -- Ethnicity -- Family -- Friendship -- Futurity -- Gender -- Generation -- Health -- Innocence-- Interpretive Reproduction -- Minority Group Status -- Nature vs. Nurture -- Needs -- Parenting -- Participation -- Peer Group -- Play -- Poverty -- Protection -- Representation -- Rights -- Schooling and Schools -- Sexual Abuse -- Social Actor-- Social Construction -- Social World -- Socialisation -- Spaces for Childre and Children's -- Spaces -- Standpoint -- Street-children -- Structure -- Vulnerability -- Welfare -- Working Children -- Youth.
Summary: 'This is a superb introduction to the fascinating field of childhood studies. A series of well chosen entries provide concise summaries of key ideas, and accessible introductions to some highly complex issues. The authors brilliantly weave together their different themes with their use of cross-referencing, so that the whole is even richer than the individual parts. I would recommend it to any beginning student of Childhoods Studies, as well as more advanced ones' - Nigel Thomas, Professor of Childhood & Youth Research, University of....
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 305.23 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Checked out 27/08/2020 69737
General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 305.23 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Checked out 27/08/2020 69738
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 305.23 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 65792

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Includes bibliographical references.

Age -- Agency-- Best interests -- Child -- Child-focused Research -- Child-friendly -- Childho Childhood Studies -- Children's Voices -- Citizenship -- Competence -- Cultural Politics of Childhood -- Cultural Relativism -- Delinquency -- Developmental Psychology -- Disappearance or Loss of Childhood -- Diversity -- Ethnicity -- Family -- Friendship -- Futurity -- Gender -- Generation -- Health -- Innocence-- Interpretive Reproduction -- Minority Group Status -- Nature vs. Nurture -- Needs -- Parenting -- Participation -- Peer Group -- Play -- Poverty -- Protection -- Representation -- Rights -- Schooling and Schools -- Sexual Abuse -- Social Actor-- Social Construction -- Social World -- Socialisation -- Spaces for Childre and Children's -- Spaces -- Standpoint -- Street-children -- Structure -- Vulnerability -- Welfare -- Working Children -- Youth.

'This is a superb introduction to the fascinating field of childhood studies. A series of well chosen entries provide concise summaries of key ideas, and accessible introductions to some highly complex issues. The authors brilliantly weave together their different themes with their use of cross-referencing, so that the whole is even richer than the individual parts. I would recommend it to any beginning student of Childhoods Studies, as well as more advanced ones' - Nigel Thomas, Professor of Childhood & Youth Research, University of....

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