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The Obvious Child: Studies in the Significance of Childhood
ISBN: 9780761843658 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is divided into two sections: the transformation of the child in society, which examines how childhood has changed in important areas of social life, and the transformation of the child in contemporary culture, which examines important areas of contemporary culture in which images and the status of childhood have become significant.
This book is divided into two sections: the transformation of the child in society, which examines how childhood has changed in important areas of soc...
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358,01 |
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The Obvious Child: Studies in the Significance of Childhood
ISBN: 9780761843665 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is divided into two sections: the transformation of the child in society, which examines how childhood has changed in important areas of social life, and the transformation of the child in contemporary culture, which examines important areas of contemporary culture in which images and the status of childhood have become significant.
This book is divided into two sections: the transformation of the child in society, which examines how childhood has changed in important areas of soc...
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198,36 |
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Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture
ISBN: 9780813545226 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though the dynamics of immigrant family life has gained attention from scholars, little is known about the younger generation, often considered "invisible." Translating Childhoods, a unique contribution to the study of immigrant youth, brings children to the forefront by exploring the "work" they perform as language and culture brokers, and the impact of this largely unseen contribution.
Skilled in two vernaculars, children shoulder basic and more complicated verbal exchanges for non-English speaking adults. Readers hear, through children's own words, what it means be "in the middle"... Though the dynamics of immigrant family life has gained attention from scholars, little is known about the younger generation, often considered "invis...
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604,74 |
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Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture
ISBN: 9780813545233 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though the dynamics of immigrant family life has gained attention from scholars, little is known about the younger generation, often considered "invisible." Translating Childhoods, a unique contribution to the study of immigrant youth, brings children to the forefront by exploring the "work" they perform as language and culture brokers, and the impact of this largely unseen contribution.
Skilled in two vernaculars, children shoulder basic and more complicated verbal exchanges for non-English speaking adults. Readers hear, through children's own words, what it means be "in the middle"... Though the dynamics of immigrant family life has gained attention from scholars, little is known about the younger generation, often considered "invis...
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149,97 |
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The Rights of the Child and the Changing Image of Childhood
ISBN: 9780792312505 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book Philip E. Veerman presents and discusses milestones in the evolution of children's rights, as well as the work of a number of important pioneers in this field in order to examine whether the concept of childhood has changed in our century. With Samuel Shye's Systemic Quality of Life Model' as a conceptual framework and uniform standard, more than forty Declarations and Conventions are analysed and compared. Veerman thus unfolds an exciting picture of the changing image of childhood, starting at the beginning of this century and culminating in the United Nations Convention on the...
In this book Philip E. Veerman presents and discusses milestones in the evolution of children's rights, as well as the work of a number of important p...
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1266,31 |
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Youth
ISBN: 9780745640952 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This accessible book takes a fresh and original approach to the concept of youth, placing changes in the social construction of "youth" within a more general story of the rise and fall of grand theory in social science. Gill Jones evaluates the current relevance of these wider social theories to understanding youth in late modernity in the light of key examples of empirical work on young people. Individual chapters are organized around the themes of action, identity, transition, inequality and dependence - conceptual themes which cross-cut young people's lives. The book considers the validity...
This accessible book takes a fresh and original approach to the concept of youth, placing changes in the social construction of "youth" within a more ...
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87,03 |
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Youth
ISBN: 9780745640945 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This accessible book takes a fresh and original approach to the concept of youth, placing changes in the social construction of "youth" within a more general story of the rise and fall of grand theory in social science. Gill Jones evaluates the current relevance of these wider social theories to understanding youth in late modernity in the light of key examples of empirical work on young people. Individual chapters are organized around the themes of action, identity, transition, inequality and dependence - conceptual themes which cross-cut young people's lives. The book considers the validity...
This accessible book takes a fresh and original approach to the concept of youth, placing changes in the social construction of "youth" within a more ...
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cena:
254,63 |
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Children, Food and Identity in Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780230575998 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the significance of food practices for childhood identities, from early babyhood to middle childhood and teenage years. It examines how children and families negotiate food and eating practices; what influence the media has on these; the role institutions play; and how far class and ethnicity shape the food that children eat.
This book explores the significance of food practices for childhood identities, from early babyhood to middle childhood and teenage years. It examines...
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cena:
402,53 |
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Contested Bodies of Childhood and Youth
ISBN: 9780230201385 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Demonstrating the contested and differentiated nature of childhood and youth embodiment, this bookresponds to political and media discourses that stigmatise 'unruly' youthful bodies, by combining the critical analysis of imagined and disciplined youthful bodies with a focus on young people's lived and performed, embodied subjectivities."
Demonstrating the contested and differentiated nature of childhood and youth embodiment, this bookresponds to political and media discourses that stig...
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201,24 |
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The New British: The Impact of Culture and Community on Young Pakistanis
ISBN: 9780754640479 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing empirical evidence on the lives of young British-born Pakistanis, The New British also reveals fascinating insights into the Pakistani community more generally. Using Bradford as a case study, Ikhlaq Din focuses on the relationship between young boys and girls, their parents, and the Pakistani community. He discusses various issues that are important to young people, such as: their experience of school; their aspirations; their identity; their attitude to community; their relationships with parents; the tensions between Islam and popular culture and the role Islam plays in the wider...
Providing empirical evidence on the lives of young British-born Pakistanis, The New British also reveals fascinating insights into the Pakistani commu...
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725,69 |
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The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market: Early Childhood Education and Care
ISBN: 9780230579323 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives in institutions in Europe. In uniting recent social childhood research, welfare perspectives and historical and comparative approaches, the book explores institutionalization as a feature of the modern child's life.
This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives in institutions in Europe. In...
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201,24 |
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Belonging to Puerto Rico & America: New York Puerto Rican Children's Developing Conceptualization of Their Own Cultural Group
ISBN: 9781606924938 / Angielski / Twarda / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on a study which investigates the developing conceptualisation of 24 first, third, and fifth-grade New York Puerto Rican children of their own cultural group, this title provides the notion that children are developing a conceptualisation of a cultur
Based on a study which investigates the developing conceptualisation of 24 first, third, and fifth-grade New York Puerto Rican children of their own c...
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356,42 |
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Whose Childhood Is It?: The Roles of Children, Adults and Policy Makers
ISBN: 9781441173577 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this book is to promote a thoughtful engagement with key issues and theories that inform our understanding of childhood. Readers will enjoy, and be provoked by, a sophisticated analysis of the role and function of childhood in twenty-first century Britain, which can be used as a springboard for further enquiry and exploration. Two intertwined themes permeate the text: - Children's sense of self and adults' temporal and cultural fabrications of childhood, and the articulation of these with policy and provision for young children. - Young children and... The purpose of this book is to promote a thoughtful engagement with key issues and theories that inform our understanding of childhood. Readers wil... |
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1226,84 |
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Childhood Socialization
ISBN: 9780202303369 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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222,50 |
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Kids Online: Opportunities and Risks for Children
ISBN: 9781847424396 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the internet and new online technologies are becoming embedded in everyday life, there are increasing questions about their social implications and consequences. Children, young people, and their families tend to be at the forefront of new media adoption, benefiting from early experiences to the new opportunities afforded by the internet, mobile and broadband content, online games, and peer-to-peer technologies. However, they also encounter a range of risky or negative experiences for which they may be unprepared. These risks, the everyday contexts in which they occur, and the ways in...
As the internet and new online technologies are becoming embedded in everyday life, there are increasing questions about their social implications and...
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cena:
432,86 |
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Contemporary Slavery: Researching Child Domestic Servitude
ISBN: 9780761845126 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates child domestic servitude in Ghana, showing the process of the children's recruitment into domestic servitude, revealing their working conditions, and detailing the methods of compensation. It seeks to answer the question of whether child domestic servants are contemporary slaves.
This book investigates child domestic servitude in Ghana, showing the process of the children's recruitment into domestic servitude, revealing their w...
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cena:
183,84 |
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The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion
ISBN: 9780226475394 / Angielski / Twarda / 1144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion offers both parents and professionals access to the best scholarship from all areas of child studies in a remarkable one-volume reference. Bringing together contemporary research on children and childhood from pediatrics, child psychology, childhood studies, education, sociology, history, law, anthropology, and other related areas, The Child contains more than 500 articles--all written by experts in their fields and overseen by a panel of distinguished editors led by anthropologist Richard A. Shweder. Each entry provides a concise... The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion offers both parents and professionals access to the best scholarship from all areas of child studies in... |
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407,40 |
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Protecting Children from Child Protective Services
ISBN: 9781418437039 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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49,09 |
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Children at Risk: The Precarious State of Children's Well-Being in America
ISBN: 9781412810760 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The desire for our children to be free from want and danger and to be able to enjoy their youth in innocence would seem to be universal. Conventional wisdom says that parents in every socio-economic level of society share the dream of preserving their children's innocence. All want to provide a childhood and adolescence that shelters and protects children from the harshness of life and nurtures them until they are able to withstand the onslaught of reality. One need only look at troubled areas of the world, such as Northern Ireland, parts of the Middle East, or any number of other... The desire for our children to be free from want and danger and to be able to enjoy their youth in innocence would seem to be universal. Convention... |
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701,49 |
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Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States
ISBN: 9780822960294 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Current global estimates of children engaged in warfare range from 200,000 to 300,000. Children's roles in conflict range from armed and active participants to spies, cooks, messengers, and sex slaves. Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States examines the factors that contribute to the use of children in war, the effects of war upon children, and the perpetual cycle of warfare that engulfs many of the world's poorest nations. The contributors seek to eliminate myths of historic or culture-based violence, and instead look to common traits of chronic poverty and vulnerable...
Current global estimates of children engaged in warfare range from 200,000 to 300,000. Children's roles in conflict range from armed and active partic...
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cena:
249,28 |