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1. Youth Studies: Keywords and Movements

   Edited by SUSAN TALBURT, NANCY LESKO

   Recent attention from the public, national governments, and international organizations to issues such as youth social exclusion, poverty, school underachievement, school violence, gang activity, sexuality, and youth’s interactions with media and the internet, have all contributed to Youth Studies...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-87412-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Peer Relationships in Early Childhood Education and Care

   Edited by Margaret Kernan, Elly Singer

   Peer Relationships in Early Childhood Education and Care brings together fresh perspectives and research about young children’s relationships. It examines children’s rights and well-being against a backdrop of increased social movement and migration, changing family structures and work practices,...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-57461-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth: Young Rural Lives

   Edited by Ruth Panelli, Samantha Punch, Elsbeth Robson

   This collection of international research and collaborative theoretical innovation examines the socio-cultural contexts and negotiations that young people face when growing up in rural settings across the world. This book is strikingly different to a standard edited book of loosely...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-88296-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Primary School in Japan: Self, Individuality and Learning in Elementary Education

   By Peter Cave

   The balance between individual independence and social interdependence is a perennial debate in Japan. A series of educational reforms since 1990, including the implementation of a new curriculum in 2002, has been a source of fierce controversy. This book, based on an extended, detailed study of...

   May 2009 | 978-0-415-54536-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Global Childhoods: Globalization, Development and Young People

   Edited by Stuart Aitken

   This astute book initiates a broad discussion from a variety of different disciplines about how we place children nationally, globally and within development discourses. Unlike other books of its kind, it does not seek to dwell solely on the abiding complexities of local comparisons. Rather, it...

   March 2009 | 978-0-415-49488-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Reconstructing Motherhood and Disability in the Age of "Perfect" Babies

   By Gail Landsman

   Examining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice, this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of "normal" and to establish a social environment in which the expression of full lives...

   2008 | 978-0-415-91789-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Children, Structure and Agency: Realities Across the Developing World

   By G.K. Lieten

   The child labour debate, the Child Rights Convention and the target of universal primary education in the Millennium Development Goals have drawn increasing attention to children in developing countries. Alongside, a debate has waged on the need for child participation and the appropriateness of...

   2008 | 978-0-415-98973-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Cultural Significance of the Child Star

   By Jane Catherine O'Connor

   The child star is an iconic figure in Western society representing a growing cultural trend which idolises, castigates and fetishises the image of the perfect, innocent and beautiful child. In this book, Jane O’Connor explores the paradoxical status of the child star who is both adored and reviled...

   2007 | 978-0-415-96157-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Childhood Studies: A Reader in Perspectives of Childhood

   Edited by Jean Mills, Richard Mills

   The nature of childhood, the consideration of whether a certain age denotes innocence or not, and the desire to teach good citizenship to our children are all issues commonly discussed by today's media. This book brings together a variety of perspectives on the study of childhood: how this has...

   1999 | 978-0-415-21415-5 | Paperback (Routledge)