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Children and Globalization Multidisciplinary Perspectives

216 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

214 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

214 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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Globalization has carried vast consequences for the lives of children. It has spurred unprecedented waves of immigration, contributed to far-reaching transformations in the organization, structure, and dynamics of family life, and profoundly altered trajectories of growing up. Equally important, globalization has contributed to the world-wide dissemination of a set of international norms about... Read more

Introduction: Children and Globalization

Steven Mintz
Part I: Historicizing Global Childhood

1. "Modern" Childhoods: Adjustment, Variety and Stress

Peter N. Stearns

2. The New Disorders of Childhood: Historical Perspectives

Steven Mintz

3. Outside the Lines: Black Girls and Boys Learn About the Interconnected Worlds of Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century North America

Wilma King

Part II: Understanding Child Development in Global Contexts

4. The Private World of Women and Children: Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes in 19^th-Century Greater Syria

Fruma Zachs

5. "The Elephant in the Room is the Role Model": Managing the Paradox of Pregnancy in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Classroom

Orna Blumen with Elka Freedland
Part III: Recovering Children’s Agency

6. "Nothing Material Occurred": Toward Rethinking the History of Early American Girlhood, 1760-1830

Sharon Halevi

7. "To Find a Better Way to Live a Life in the World": An Auto-Ethnographic Exploration of an Ibasho Project with Chinese Immigrant Youth in the United States

Tomoko Tokunaga

8. Growing Gaps in Enacted and Ideational Independence

Yulia Chentsova Dutton and Derya Gürcan-Yildirim