Childhood Today

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4739-8936-8
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 470 g

"This is an urgently needed book that explores a number of different concepts of childhood in 21st century. The book throughout considers enduring topics and new concepts of childhood, and initiates a number of questions that students of education, childhood and early childhood studies can engage as lines of inquiries. The book offers a multidisciplinary approach of the child today, that influences practice, policy, and education, and offers diverse dimensions to provoke our thinking." - Dr. Ioanna Palaiologou, Institute of Education, University College London

How we understand what ‘childhood’ means in today’s society is constantly changing, and the rate of this change is unprecedented. This new edited book explores what it really means to be a child of the 21st century, and how we as professionals, researchers, parents and adults can understand an environment seemingly in constant flux.

Each chapter seeks to explore and problematise some of the different ‘labels’ that we give to children in an attempt to understand their contemporary experiences. From the Regulated Child to the Stressed Child to the Poor Child the book covers a wide array of key issues in contemporary childhood, including obesity, risk, special needs, wellbeing and poverty.

The pace of change in childhood can be daunting but this book helps students, practitioners and researchers to explore and understand the variety of issues affecting children in the UK and all over the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Owen, Alex

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Kindergarten & Vorschule

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction - Alex Owen
2. The Cotton Wool Child - Zoi Nikiforidou

3. The Selfish Child - Jim Stack

4. The Universal Child - Theodora Papatheodorou
5. The SEN/D Child - Marie Caslin

6. The Regulated Child - Carol Aubrey, Carolyn Blackburn, Charlotte Jones & Rosemarie Lowe
7. The Stressed Child - Nina Sajaniemi

8. The Political Child - Sue Cronin, Ged Mulhaney & Michelle Pearson

9. The Natural Child - Harriet Pattison
10. The Poor Child - Babs Anderson & Alex Owen
11. The Fat Child - Laura Waite& Erin Pritchard

Über Autor(innen)

Owen, Alex
Alex Owen is Head of the Department and Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood at Liverpool Hope University. Her research focuses on the impact of poverty upon young children’s current life experience and future life chances. She is a Senior Fellow of the HEA and Vice-Chair of Governors at a local primary school.