1st Edition

Rethinking Children as Consumers The changing status of childhood and young adulthood

Edited By Cyndy Hawkins Copyright 2017
194 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

Children are significant consumers of services such as health, welfare, educational institutions and the environment. Alongside this, the marketization of childhood means that children are exposed to advertising and marketing through a wide range of media on a daily basis. Examining key debates on children’s power, status and citizenship issues, it considers the wider implications of how... Read more

1. Introduction: Children, young people and their changing status in society

Cyndy Hawkins

2. Diverse consumers

Catherine Gripton and Val Hall

3. Children as consumers of early years services

Victoria Brown, Moira Moran and Annie Woods

4. Children and young people as health consumers

Sharon Vesty and Lorna Wardle

5.Environmental consumers

Cyndy Hawkins

6. Brand consumers

Cyndy Hawkins

7. Consumption, identity and young people

Mark Weinstein

8. Young people as consumers- the construction of vulnerability amongst consumers of higher education

Phil Mignot

9. Young people and democratic citizenship

Jason Wood

10. Rethinking children as consumers

Edited by Cyndy Hawkins

Biography

Cyndy Hawkins is Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies and Education Studies at Nottingham Trent University, UK.