The Child in Society
- Hazel R Wright - Anglia Ruskin University, UK
The child has a very special place in society, and society defines and shapes childhood. Understanding childhood is essential to early years students and this book offers a great introduction.
Taking a thematic approach, chapters cover:
- Historical and Cultural Perspectives
- Policy and Economic Perspectives
- Psychological and Biological Perspectives
- Contemporary Views.
Each chapter prompts you to reflect on core issues and interrogate your practice and attitudes towards children in your care.
This fantastic foundation will help you to begin to understand the relationship between the child and society.
Particularly like the section on theorists - this would be very useful for first year students
Excellent informative easy to read book
This is a really valuable addition to the family of childhood studies textbooks. For our students this will offer them a range of truly multidisciplinary perspectives on childhood, which will enable them to deepen their insight and understanding of some of the key debates in the field.
This text embraces many of the topics in our Children and Society module. It is a very good resource for Childhood Practice students.
This book is highly suited to the subject Childhood, Culture and Society, it is written well and easy to understand.
Sample Materials & Chapters
C1. Moss, 'Memory, space and time...'
C1. O'Brien, 'The Nature of Childhood...'
C1. Schousboe, 'Local and global perspectives...'
C2. Hochschild, 'Cul-de-sacs...'
C2. Naterer & Godina, 'Bomzhi...'
C2. Worthman, 'The Ecology of human development...'
C3. Bailey et al. 'Coming of age...'
C3. Chamberlain 'Small worlds...'
C3. Little, 'Some Children matter...'
C4. Taylor, 'Reconceptualizing...'
C4. Vallgarda, 'Adam's escape...'
C4. wilson, 'Ye Heart of a father...'
C5. Burman, 'Deconstructing...'
C6. Farrell et al. 'Family change...'
C6. Moran-Ellis, 'Reflections on the sociology...'
C6. Smith, 'Producing governable subjects...'
C7. Campbell-Barr, 'Care and business...'
C7. Penn, 'International perspectives...'
C7. Saraceno, 'Childcare needs...'
C8. Linncove, 'does the age...'
C8. Merrell, 'What children know and can do..'
C8. Singh, 'Contexts of childhood play...'
C9. Hill, 'Endangered childhoods...'
C9. Katz, 'Cultural geographies...'
C9. Plowman, 'Using mobile phone...'
C10. Marsh, 'children as knowledge brokers...'
C10. Martins, 'The Dangers of the single story...'
C10. Selbie, 'Talking early childhood...'
References for journal articles accompanying The Child in Society
