Four years Old in an Urban Community

ISBN-13: 9780415417556 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 605 str.

John Newsom; Elizabeth Newson

Opis

First published in 1968, this book investigates the upbringing of seven hundred Nottingham children as they reach the age of four. Parents are interviewed in their homes with a human approach and the minimum of technical jargon.

Spis treści

1. Background and introduction

2. The child in his context

3. Focus on four-year-olds

4. Pressures for independence

5. Social learning and the control of aggression

6. Rights and privileges of property and play

7. Shared and private worlds

8. Mealtimes and manners

9. Must we to bed indeed?

10. Rituals and comfort habits

11. Coda to toilet training

12. Who told thee that thou wast naked?

13. Patterns of persuasion and compulsion

14. Verbalization and the question of truth

15. Satisfaction and doubt in the parental role

O autorze

John Newson, Elizabeth Newson