Childhood Today

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

"This is an urgently needed book that explores a number of different concepts of childhood in 21st century. The book throughout considers enduring topics and new concepts of childhood, and initiates a number of questions that students of education, childhood and early childhood studies can engage as lines of inquiries. The book offers a multidisciplinary approach of the child today, that influences practice, policy, and education, and offers diverse dimensions to provoke our thinking." - Dr. Ioanna Palaiologou, Institute of Education, University College London

How we understand what ‘childhood’ means in today’s society is constantly changing, and the rate of this change is unprecedented. This new edited book explores what it really means to be a child of the 21^st century, and how we as professionals, researchers, parents and adults can understand an environment seemingly in constant flux.

Each chapter seeks to explore and problematise some of the different ‘labels’ that we give to children in an attempt to understand their contemporary experiences. From the Regulated Child to the Stressed Child to the Poor Child the book covers a wide array of key issues in contemporary childhood, including obesity, risk, special needs, wellbeing and poverty.

The pace of change in childhood can be daunting but this book helps students, practitioners and researchers to explore and understand the variety of issues affecting children in the UK and all over the world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-08-21
Mått:170 x 242 x 14 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:160
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9781473989368

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Alex Owen is Head of the Department and Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood at Liverpool Hope University. Her research focuses on the impact of poverty upon young children’s current life experience and future life chances. She is a Senior Fellow of the HEA and Vice-Chair of Governors at a local primary school.

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This is an urgently needed book that explores a number of different concepts of childhood in 21st century. The book throughout considers enduring topics and new concepts of childhood, and initiates a number of questions that students of education, childhood, and early childhood studies can engage as lines of inquiries. Structured around eleven chapters this book addresses contemporary and traditional constructions of childhood and approaches issues around the child, bringing to life theoretical perspectives and liking them to practice with interesting case studies. Important key debates such as the snowflake generation, politics, poverty, equality, and obesity are related to the impact of constructing our views of the child in today’s society. The book offers a multidisciplinary approach of the child today that influences practice, policy, & education and offers diverse dimensions to provoke our thinking. Throughout the book , the high quality chapters help students to understand and question complex issues in childhood that are linked with social problems experienced by children that children themselves and professionals are facing today. Critical and equally helpful, this book is an important contribution of alternative viewing of the child which demonstrates how childhood is constructed today. This book will be necessary reading for all studying childhood and all professionals involved with children as it offers different perspectives for studying children and childhood and discusses child related situations that need special consideration.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction - Alex Owen2. The Cotton Wool Child - Zoi Nikiforidou 3. The Selfish Child - Jim Stack 4. The Universal Child - Theodora Papatheodorou5. The SEN/D Child - Marie Caslin 6. The Regulated Child - Carol Aubrey, Carolyn Blackburn, Charlotte Jones & Rosemarie Lowe7. The Stressed Child - Nina Sajaniemi 8. The Political Child - Sue Cronin, Ged Mulhaney & Michelle Pearson 9. The Natural Child - Harriet Pattison10. The Poor Child - Babs Anderson & Alex Owen11. The Fat Child - Laura Waite& Erin Pritchard