Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Children's Studies

The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of childhood in the West from antiquity to the present day. By broadly incorporating the research in the field of Childhood Studies, the book explores the major advances that have taken place in the past few decades in this crucial field.

The volume is composed of three parts. The first part explores childhood from the Ancient World through to the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe. The second part examines the fundamental aspects of childhood and the life...

Since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) children s rights have assumed a central position in a wide variety of disciplines and policies. This handbook offers an engaging overview of the contemporary research landscape for those people involved in the theory and practice of children s rights.

The volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to children s rights to children s rights, as well as key thematic issues in children s rights at the intersection of global and local concerns. The main approaches and topics within the volume are:

• Law,...

Father Involvement in Canada brings together more than a dozen leading scholars of fatherhood issues to examine the roles of Canadian fathers from many angles. Looking at the experiences of fathers from different ethnicities, ages, marital statuses, gender partnering, and economic brackets, the authors examine issues such as the impact of poverty, access to paternity leave, and the availability of support from social institutions.

In this book Chris Jenks looks at what the ways in which we construct our image of childhood can tell us about ourselves. After a general discussion of the social construction of childhood, the book is structured around three examples of the way the image of the child is played out in society:

• the history of childhood from medieval times through the enlightenment 'discovery' of childhood to the present
• the mythology and reality of child abuse and society's response to it
• the 'death' of childhood in cases such as the James Bulger murder in which the child...

• John Locke's writings on children
• Philippe Aries's Centuries of Childhood
• children's moral and legal rights
• a child's right to vote and to sexual choice
• parental rights to...

The Sesame Effect details the wide-ranging work of Sesame Workshop and its productions across the world. With an emphasis on impact and evidence from research on projects in low- and middle-income countries, the book tells the stories behind the development of an international family of Muppet characters created for the locally produced adaptations of Sesame Street.

Each chapter highlights the educational message of international co-productions and presents the cultural context of each project. Readers will understand the specific needs of children living in a given...

Der vorliegende Band beschaftigt sich zum einen mit der Reduktion des Essens auf eine naturwissenschaftliche Perspektive und moralisches Gebot und hebt zum anderen die kulturelle und soziale Bedeutung hervor.

Seit der Entstehung der Ernahrungswissenschaft Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts haben wir uns daran gewohnt, von Vitaminen, Proteinen und Kohlehydraten zu sprechen. Wir betrachten Lebensmittel aus naturwissenschaftlicher Sicht, losen sie in einzelne Bestandteile auf und quantifizieren diese, um festzustellen, wie viel wir von welchem Inhaltsstoff zu uns nehmen mussen, um uns gesund zu...