Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Children's Studies

This straightforward reference surveys the knowledge base on homeless, runaway, and thrown-away children and adolescents and makes concrete recommendations for policy and practice. It is a comprehensive volume, that covers new state legislation in the U.S. dealing with runaway and homeless youth. The book's ecological approach grounds readers in the demographics of this diverse population, family and other risk factors for leaving home (and alternative arrangements such as foster care), and the survival skills homeless young people use to sustain themselves. Chapters cover a gamut of...

Focusing on the lives and loves of eight unforgettable youth, No House to Call My Home traces their efforts to break away from dangerous sex work and cycles of drug and alcohol abuse, and, in the process, to heal...

Tackling issues such as nutrition, sexual health, disability and substance misuse, the book provides an in-depth examination of the key concepts and...

Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt, dass und wie sich der biographisch-personenbezogene Ansatz als eine neue politikdidaktische Lehr-Lern-Strategie begrunden lasst. Gezeigt wird ferner, dass sich als Folge und Voraussetzung dieser Begrundung gleichermaen ein neues politikdidaktisches Forschungs- und Arbeitsfeld zu konstituieren hat: die politikdidaktische (Auto-)Biographieforschung. Sodann werden am Beispiel der ehemaligen DDR wesentliche, der mit diesem Feld verbundenen Arbeitsschritte prasentiert, deren Ergebnisse schlielich in Biographien als der materiellen...

In this book, Faye Woods explores the raucous, cheeky, intimate voice of British youth television. This is the first study of a complete television system targeting teens and twenty somethings, chronicling a period of significant industrial change in the early 21st century. British Youth Television offers a snapshot of the complexities of contemporary television from a British standpoint -- youth-focused programming that blossomed in the commercial expansion of the digital era, yet indelibly shaped by public service broadcasting, and now finding its feet on proliferating platforms....

Children must learn to pick themselves up, brush themselves off, and bounce back. How do you allow for the physicality required to build resilience why you are tasked with children's safety? This guide provides the tools and strategies for creating a culture of resilience, including families in the process, and keeping safety front-of-mind.

• Examine common safety concerns and how to address and prepare for them
• Learn how to work with families and build a trusting relationship around children's physical development
• Consider legal concerns regarding licensing...

Welche Positionierungsraume offnet und schliet das Genderregime Schule und wie gehen SchulerInnen damit um? Diesen Fragen gehen Monika Jackle, Sandra Eck, Meta Schnell und Kyra Schneider nach und zeigen, wie Judith Butlers theoretische Ausarbeitungen zu Subjektivation und Anerkennung in konkrete qualitative Forschungspraktiken ubertragbar sind. Die Forschungsergebnisse beleuchten, welche Geschlechterfiguren fur die SchulerInnen vorstellbar sind und wie diese prozessiert werden, welche Positionierung die Befragten bezuglich dieser Geschlechterfiguren einnehmen und welche subjektiven...

This book explores what it is like to be involved in contemporary open adoption, characterised by varying forms of contact with birth relatives, from an adoptive parent point of view.

The author s fine-grained interpretative phenomenological analysis of adopters accounts reveals the complexity of kinship for those whose most significant relationships are made, unmade and permanently altered through adoption. MacDonald distinctively connects adoption to wider sociological theories of relatedness and personal life, and focuses on domestic non-kin adoption of children from state care,...