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  • af Rachel Burr
    408,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Autobiography, Trauma, and Memory
    af Kate Douglas
    353,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Youth with Disabilities on the Cusp of Adulthood
    af Valerie Leiter
    430,95 kr.

  • - A Global History
     
    561,95 kr.

    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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    363,95 kr.

    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
    af Franziska Fay
    378,95 - 1.393,95 kr.

  • - A Childhood Journey for New Opportunities
    af Kathie Carpenter
    333,95 - 1.393,95 kr.

  • - Japan's Untold Story
    af Walter Hamilton
    548,95 - 1.844,95 kr.

  • - Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism
    af David M. Rosen
    462,95 kr.

    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
    af Hannah Dyer
    288,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

  • - Reciprocity and Respect among Young Men in Liberia
    af Abby Hardgrove
    364,95 - 1.163,95 kr.

    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
    af Jean Hunleth
    502,95 - 1.648,95 kr.

    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
    af Maria Kromidas
    441,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Primary Sources and Texts
     
    1.585,95 kr.

    Examines the theme of children in major religions of the world. This volume addresses a range of topics, from the sanctity of birth to a child's relationship to evil, showing that issues regarding children are central to understanding world religions and raising significant questions about our own conceptions of children.

  • - Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities
    af Amanda E. Lewis
    434,95 kr.

    This text takes the reader inside children's classrooms and reveals the lessons about race that are communicated there, both implicitly and explicitly. It examines how ideas about race and racial inequality take shape and are passed along in the classroom and schoolyard.

  • - African American Girls and Inner City Violence
    af Nikki Jones
    440,95 kr.

    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
    af Cindy Dell Clark
    410,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Laurie Schaffner
    455,95 kr.

    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
    af Laura Moran
    1.398,95 kr.

  • - Negotiating Young Lives and Health in New Zealand
    af Julie Spray
    376,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

  • - Understanding the Lives of Grandchildren Raised by Grandparents
    af Rachel E. Dunifon
    323,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

    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
     
    442,95 kr.

    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
    af Cindy Dell Clark
    323,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

  • - Education and Civic Identity in Transition
    af Michelle J. Bellino
    504,95 - 1.652,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Ingrid A. Nelson
    353,95 - 1.388,95 kr.

    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
    af Vera Lopez
    413,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

    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
    af Pamela Robertson Wojcik
    353,95 - 1.388,95 kr.

    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
    af Elzbieta M. Gozdziak
    428,95 - 1.645,95 kr.

    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
    af Susan A. Miller
    353,95 kr.

    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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