1st Edition

Growing Up in a Changing Society

Edited By Ronnie Carr, Paul Light, Martin Woodhead Copyright 1991
376 Pages
by Routledge

376 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

The final reader in the Child Development in Social Context series shows how the study of child development is inevitably bound up in more ephemeral cultural ideas about the nature and needs of children and in the educational practices that rise from these ideas. Some readings point to the dangers which can arise from the meeting of science and cultural values, using for illustration studies of... Read more
Part 1: Concepts of Childhood, Concepts of Parenthood Part 2: Frameworks for Child Care Part 3: Expectations in Early Education Part 4: Pupil Perspectives on Classrooms and Playgrounds Part 5: Gender, Race and the Experience of Schooling

Biography

Martin Woodhead, Paul Light, Ronnie Carr