Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Children's Studies

Conducting ethnographic fieldwork with children presents anthropologists with particular challenges and limitations, as well as rewards and insights.

Children: Ethnographic Encounters presents ten vivid accounts of researchers' experiences of working with children across a variety of cultural contexts. Part of the Ethnographic Encounters series, the book offers honest reflections on successes as well as failures and shows that in all cases - even those that 'failed' - anthropologists can learn something about children's position in their social...

This book aims to further academic debate within the leisure and tourism studies community about the role of families in contemporary life and the experiences of families and their children in the leisure environment. It is based on the recognition of the diverse nature of the family in the contemporary era and the position of children in families and society in general as active and knowing social agents rather than as passive objects. The family is on the one hand our first community with its own special kind of human attachment and on the other a little world on which the larger society...

Responding to security scholars puzzling dearth of attention to children and childhoods, the contributors to this volume reveal the ways in which they not only are already present in security discourses but are actually indispensable to them and to the political projects they make possible. From zones of conflict to everyday life contexts in the (post)industrial Global North, dominant ideas about childhood work to regulate the constitution of political subjects whilst variously enabling and foreclosing a wide range of political possibilities. Whether on the battlefields of Syria, in the...

This volume contributes to the ongoing interdisciplinary controversies about the moral, legal and political status of children and childhood. It comprises essays by scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds on diverse theoretical problems and public policy controversies that bear upon different facets of the life of children in contemporary liberal democracies. The book is divided into three major parts that are each organized around a common general theme. The first part ("Children and Childhood: Autonomy, Well-Being and Paternalism") focusses on key concepts of an ethics of...

Every person has a story. Embodied in every story are narratives of pain and suffering as well as narratives of strength and resilience. This book guides therapists through the nine-step process of helping inner city youth tell their stories. Storiez unabashedly incorporates principles of social work practice into its theory and application. Ingrained in this intervention are the social work principles of the client's right to self-determination, a strengths-based perspective, individual empowerment, and cultural sensitivity.

Stories. Every one of us has them. Stories of joy. Stories of sadness. Stories of pain. Stories of strength. Stories of wanting to quit. Stories of refusing to give up. Storiez is a process that helps you work with your therapist to talk about your life experiences. Using this book as a tool, your therapist will help you talk about your thoughts and feelings during positive and negative life events. Telling your story will help you organize the things (good and bad) that you have been through. It will help you share your story, think about your story, and figure out how you can shape your...

Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon and Andrew Fitz-Gibbon have cared for more than 100 children in a foster care career spanning more than three decades. They developed a method, "loving nonviolent re-parenting," to best care for foster children. "Re-parenting" represents the complex task of caring for children who have been parented already, often inadequately, and mostly involving physical, emotional, and/or systemic violence.

Welcoming Strangers analyses the violence foster children suffer and raises ethical questions--why violence is morally problematic, what philosophers have said about...

Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon and Andrew Fitz-Gibbon have cared for more than 100 children in a foster care career spanning more than three decades. They developed a method, "loving nonviolent re-parenting," to best care for foster children. "Re-parenting" represents the complex task of caring for children who have been parented already, often inadequately, and mostly involving physical, emotional, and/or systemic violence.

Welcoming Strangers analyses the violence foster children suffer and raises ethical questions--why violence is morally problematic, what philosophers have said about...

Das gesellschaftlich verbreitete und groe Interesse an einem Leben als Aussteiger behandelt Sascha Bachmann erstmals soziologisch, und widmet sich somit der Frage: "Was ist mit denen, die es durchziehen?" Auf der Basis empirischer Untersuchungen verschiedener Falle und unter der Verwendung der Zivilisationstheorie von Norbert Elias entwickelt der Autor eine erste Theorie zum Phanomen der Zivilisationsflucht - sowie eine Kritik der darin angestrebten Form der Selbstverwirklichung.

Karin Sauer und Hartmut Schonherr beleuchten zunachst Hintergrunde und Entwicklungen der religiosen Landschaft in der Bundesrepublik. Sie zeigen sowohl religionssoziologische Faktoren als auch entwicklungspsychologische Aspekte auf, die Jugendliche durch "Sekten" ansprechbar machen konnen. Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit eroffnen die Autoren unterrichtliche Perspektiven zur Praventionsarbeit im Religionsunterricht an berufsbildenden Schulen. Dabei geht es nicht vorrangig um Krisenintervention, sondern um padagogische Ansatze und didaktische Handreichungen zur mundigen Auseinandersetzung mit...