Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Children's Studies

Adoption has long been a controversial subject in the United States as well as in other western countries, but never more so than in the past three decades. Why that is and how public attention affects the decisions made by those who arrange, legalize, and experience adoptive kinship constitutes the subject of this book. Adoption, the author argues, touches on major preoccupations we all have: who we are; why we are what we are; the balance of "nature" and "culture" in self-definition; the conflict between individual rights and social order.

The problematic nature of adoption in...

Recent work on children's digital cultures has identified a range of literacies emerging through children's engagement with new media technologies. This edited collection focuses on children's digital cultures, specifically examining the role of play and creativity in learning with these new technologies.

The chapters in this book were contributed by an international range of respected researchers, who seek to extend our understandings of children's interactions with new media both within and outside of school. They address and provide evidence for continuing debates around the...

Palestinian children and young people living both within and outside of refugee camps in the Middle East are the focus of this book. For more than half a century these children and their caregivers have lived a temporary existence in the dramatic and politically volatile landscape that is the Middle East. These children have been captive to various sorts of stereotyping, both academic and popular. They have been objectified, much as their parents and grandparents, as passive victims without the benefit of international protection. And they have become the beneficiaries of numerous...

Die aktuelle Ausgabe des Jahrbuchs Jugendforschung beschaftigt sich im ersten seiner Schwerpunkte mit der Bedeutung der Jugendphase fur die spatere Erwachsenenbiografie. Auf der Basis von - teilweise mehrere Jahrzehnte umspannenden - Langsschnittstudien wird empirisch der Frage nachgegangen, wie aussagekraftig Daten aus der Jugendphase tatsachlich fur das spatere Leben als Erwachsener sind. Wahrend mit Blick auf die Jugend in der Offentlichkeit immer wieder problematisches Verhalten Jugendlicher - wie etwa Gewalt, Alkohol oder Risikoverhalten - akzentuiert wird, setzt das Jahrbuch...