Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about Nations and National Groups

ISBN-13: 9781841693019 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 332 str.

Martyn Barrett; Luciano Arcuri; Mark Bennett

Opis

Describes how people's subjective sense of national identity and attitudes towards countries and national groups develop through the course of childhood and adolescence. This book offers a review of the research which has been conducted into children's attitudes towards, and emotional attachment to, their own country and national group.

Spis treści

Preface. On Children, Nations and National Groups. Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about Countries Construed as Geographical Territories. Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about the State Construed as an Organised Political Community. Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about Nations and States Construed as Historical and Cultural Communities. Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about the People who Belong to Different National and State Groups. The Development of Children's Subjective Identification with their own Nation and State. Theoretical Accounts of How Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about Nations and National Groups Develop. References. Index.

O autorze

Martyn Barrett is Professor of Psychology at the University of Surrey. He has worked extensively on the development of language and on children's drawings. More recently he has been working on national and ethnic enculturation in childhood and adolescence, the development of prejudice and stereotyping in children and adolescents, and acculturation processes in ethnic minority individuals.