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An introduction to childhood studies / edited by Mary Jane Kehily.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2004Description: xi, 196 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0335212670
  • 9780335212675
  • 0335212689
  • 9780335212682
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Introduction to childhood studies.DDC classification:
  • 305.231 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ767.9 .I58 2004
Contents:
1. Understanding childhood: an introduction to some key themes and issues / Mary Jane Kehily -- Part 1. Historical Approaches to Childhood : -- 2. The historical construction of childhood / Diana Gittins -- 3. Children's literature and childhood / Peter Hunt -- 4. Innocence and experience: a historical approach to childhood and sexuality / Mary Jane Kehily and Heather Montgomery -- Part 2. Sociocultural Approaches to Childhood : -- 5. Constructing childhood sociologically / Chris Jenks -- 6. Developmental psychology and the study of childhood / Valerie Walkerdine -- 7. New media, new childhoods? Children's changing cultural environment in the age of digital technology / David Buckingham -- Part 3. Policy Perspectives on Childhood : -- 8. , Promoting better childhoods: constructions of child concern / Wendy Stainton Rogers -- 9. Children's rights: international policy and lived practice / Rachel Burr -- 10. Childhood and the law: In whose 'best interests'? / Daniel Monk.
Summary: This introductory textbook brings together key themes in the area of childhood studies to provide an introduction to students and practitioners working in this field. Written by experts from across a range of disciplines, each chapter offers a broad-based and accessible insight into childhood and analyzes new ways of researching and theorizing about children and childhood. For undergraduate and postgraduate students of childhood studies, education, and social sciences.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Understanding childhood: an introduction to some key themes and issues / Mary Jane Kehily -- Part 1. Historical Approaches to Childhood : -- 2. The historical construction of childhood / Diana Gittins -- 3. Children's literature and childhood / Peter Hunt -- 4. Innocence and experience: a historical approach to childhood and sexuality / Mary Jane Kehily and Heather Montgomery -- Part 2. Sociocultural Approaches to Childhood : -- 5. Constructing childhood sociologically / Chris Jenks -- 6. Developmental psychology and the study of childhood / Valerie Walkerdine -- 7. New media, new childhoods? Children's changing cultural environment in the age of digital technology / David Buckingham -- Part 3. Policy Perspectives on Childhood : -- 8. , Promoting better childhoods: constructions of child concern / Wendy Stainton Rogers -- 9. Children's rights: international policy and lived practice / Rachel Burr -- 10. Childhood and the law: In whose 'best interests'? / Daniel Monk.

This introductory textbook brings together key themes in the area of childhood studies to provide an introduction to students and practitioners working in this field. Written by experts from across a range of disciplines, each chapter offers a broad-based and accessible insight into childhood and analyzes new ways of researching and theorizing about children and childhood. For undergraduate and postgraduate students of childhood studies, education, and social sciences.

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