Childhood - Anthropology Products

By Sheila Greene, Elizabeth Nixon

This novel book approaches the topic of children’s agency from a fresh perspective, emphasising what psychological and developmental science can bring to a debate which has been dominated by sociology and anthropology. It reviews research on agency from family, school and wider society domains,…

Paperback – 2018-11-30 
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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 – 2018-10-29 
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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 – 2018-10-12 
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Edited by Hasina Banu Ebrahim, Auma Okwany, Oumar Barry

The importance of early care and education 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 early childhood research, and…

Hardback – 2018-10-08 
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Routledge 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 – 2018-10-08 
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By Myisha Priest

This book explores the ways that figures of Black children and writing for them articulate complex and contested notions of justice arising from the entanglements of black freedom and black subjection, articulations made material in spectacular performances on the political stage. Connecting…

Hardback – 2018-08-31 
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Children's Literature and Culture

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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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education

By Marjorie Harness Goodwin, Asta Cekaite

Embodied Family Choreography documents the lived and embodied practices employed to establish, maintain, and negotiate intimate social relationships in the family, examining forms of control, care, and creativity. Making use of the extensive video archives of family interaction in the US and Sweden…

Hardback – 2018-04-05
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Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis

Edited by Jennifer Miskec, Annette Wannamaker

This is the first volume to consider the popular literary category of Early Readers – books written and designed for children who are just beginning to read independently. It argues that Early Readers deserve more scholarly attention and careful thought because they are, for many younger readers,…

Paperback – 2018-02-12
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Children's Literature and Culture

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…

Hardback – 2017-11-24
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Routledge Library Editions: Literacy

By Jacqueline Reid-Walsh

Movable books are an innovative area of children’s publishing. Commonly equated with spectacular pop-ups, movable books have a little-known history as interactive, narrative media. Since they are hybrid artifacts consisting of words, images and movable components, they cross the borders between…

Hardback – 2017-09-29
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Children's Literature and Culture