Childhood - Anthropology Products

Edited by Steven F. Arvizu, Marietta Saravia-Shore

Originally published in 1992. This book advocates and demonstrates the benefits of an anthropological approach that recognizes the centrality of culture in the educational process. This approach encompasses knowledge and understanding of other cultures’ patterns of interaction, values, institutions…

Paperback – 2019-06-01 
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Routledge Library Editions: Literacy

Edited by Marit Skivenes, Karl Harald Søvig

Societies and states are at a crossroad in how children are treated and how their rights are respected and protected. Children´s new position and their strong rights create tensions and challenge the traditional relationships between family and the state. The United Nations Convention on the Rights…

Hardback – 2019-03-14 
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Routledge Research in International Law

By Elly Thomas

Play and the Artist’s Creative Process explores a continuity between childhood play and adult creativity. The volume examines how an understanding of play can shed new light on processes that recur in the work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi. Both artists’ distinctive engagement with popular…

Hardback – 2019-02-25 
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Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

Edited by John Horton, Michelle Pyer

The very notions of childhood and youth are intimately connected to contemporary norms, practices and spaces of care, caring and care-giving. The provision of care is widely figured as both the primary responsibility of parents, carers and practitioners who work with children and young people, and…

Paperback – 2019-01-17
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Routledge Spaces of Childhood and Youth Series

Edited by Audra A. Diptee, David V. Trotman

Atlantic Childhoods in Global Contexts explores childhood and youth in the Global South. The term childhood often conjures images of innocence, vulnerability and the need for protection, but this book suggests that, in colonial contexts, these images need to be re-examined. In fact, as the articles…

Paperback – 2019-01-03
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By George E. Dickinson, Brenda S. Sanders

With a rapidly aging population throughout the world, the issue of larger percentages of older adults has repercussions for both policy and the job market. Whether a university student about to seek a full-time job or a caregiver for an older person, Aging in the Family should enhance the reader’s…

Paperback – 2018-11-16
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By John Newson, Elizabeth Newson

Edited by Peter Barnes, Susan Gregory

This book is about the lives of 11-year-old children growing up in a Midlands city in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Based on interviews with their parents, it describes family life at the time, as well as the experiences, hopes and concerns of the children as they themselves become adolescents. The…

Paperback – 2018-10-18
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Edited by Kate Gleeson, Timothy Willem Jones

In recent years the sexual abuse of children in religious institutions has gripped the Western world, as churches, governments and civil society attempt to come to terms with the magnitude of widespread historical abuses. Questions continue to be asked about why it is that perpetrators were able to…

Hardback – 2018-10-02
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Edited by Hasina Banu Ebrahim, Auma Okwany, Oumar Barry

The importance of early childhood care and education (ECCE) in the lives of very young children is gaining increasing attention around the globe and yet there is a persistent lack of diverse knowledge perspectives on this critical phase. This stems from dominant Eurocentric framings of…

Hardback – 2018-09-19
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EECERA Collection of Research in Early Childhood Education

Edited by Andrée-Anne Cormier, Christine Sypnowich

In making the argument for the remedy of inequality, contemporary political philosophers often emphasize the arbitrariness of disadvantage, stressing how one’s lot in life is to a significant extent determined by the circumstances of one’s birth, that is, in which family, and in what part of the…

Hardback – 2018-09-18
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By Elee Kirk, Will Buckingham

Children are one of the major audiences for museums, but their visits are often seen solely from the point of view of museum learning. In Snapshots of Museum Experience, Will Buckingham draws upon Elee Kirk’s research amongst child visitors to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, to…

Hardback – 2018-06-21
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Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Edited by Chris Pascal, Tony Bertram, Marika Veisson

Change is now a dominant feature of early childhood systems around the globe and many countries are currently facing significant economic, social and political developments that bring additional challenges that teaching and learning practices need to be able to respond to in a positive and…

Hardback – 2018-06-14
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EECERA Collection of Research in Early Childhood Education