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Learning on the job : parenting in modern Ireland / edited by Colm O'Doherty and Ashling Jackson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cork, Ireland : Oak Tree Press , 2015.Description: xiv, 361 p. : charts ; 24 cm. ; pbkISBN:
  • 1781191875
  • 9781781191873
  • 9781781191873:
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 649.109417
Contents:
Holdings
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General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 649.109417 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 82148

Includes bibliographical references and index.

[Part 1: The social context of parenting in Ireland] Foreword / M. Daly -- Introduction / A. Jackson & C. O'Doherty -- A quiet revolution: modernity, social change and new parenting opportunities / A. Jackson -- Out with the old, in with the new: changing family patterns in Ireland / A. Jackson -- The value of parenting / C. O'Doherty -- Happy parenting / C. O'Doherty -- Supporting parents: evidence-informed and evidence-based policy and practice / S. Owens.

[Part 2: Discourse on parenting and emerging family issues] Parenting and children's development in Ireland: lessons from psychology / E. Nixon -- "You don't understand": navigating the parenting contours of adolescence / K. Leonard -- "There's an app for that!": parenting in a digital age / T. Farrelly -- Legal gaps impacting on children of lesbian, gay and bisexual parents in Ireland / A. I. Gowran -- Parenting alone in Contemporary Ireland / R. Crosse & M. Millar -- Parents with intellectual disability / A. M. Asgharian -- Grandchildcare: grandparents and childcare in Ireland / M. Share & L. Kerrins -- Fathers and parenting / C. Shaw, M. Lohan & N. Richardson -- Working on parenting / E. Lawlor -- Advancing parenting: a new perspective in parenting support / J. Kavanagh -- Parenting in a multicultural society: migrants and their experiences of parenting in Ireland / G. Cotter & O. Kolawole -- Foster parenting / D. Smith -- Conclusion: a new deal for parents, a new deal for society / C. O' Doherty & A. Jackson.

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