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Key Concepts in Childhood Studies

Second Edition

Allison James - University of Sheffield, UK
Adrian James - University of Sheffield, UK

Series:
SAGE Key Concepts series

Courses:
Social Work with Children and Families | Sociology of Childhood

July 2012 | 160 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

This book has already proved itself as a course adoption leader in Childhood Studies.

All of the strengths of the First Edition have been retained. The book is comprehensive and judged with the needs of students in mind. It is a model of clarity and precision and has been acknowledged as such in reviews and course feedback.

The new edition thoroughly revises old entries and adds new ones. The book is the most accessible, relevant student introduction to this expanding, interdisciplinary field.

It is an indispensable teaching text and an ideal prompt for researchers.

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Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

Age and Maturity

Agency

Best Interests

Child

Child-Focused Research /Research with Children

Child-Friendly

Childhood

Child Soldiers

Childhood Studies

Children as Consumers

Children as Researchers

Children's Voices

Citizenship

Competence

Cultural Politics of Childhood

Cultural Relativism

Delinquency

Developmental Psychology

Developmentalism

Disappearance or Loss of Childhood

Diversity

Ethnicity

Familialization

Family

Friendship

Futurity

Gender

Generation

Global Childhood

Health

Innocence

Internet and New Social Media

Interpretive Reproduction

Minority Group Status

Nature vs. Nurture

Needs

Neglect

Parenting

Participation

Peer Group

Play

Poverty

Protection

Representation

Resilience

Responsibility

Rights

Schooling and Schools

Sexual Abuse

Sexualization

Social Actor

Social Construction

Social World

Socialization

Spaces for Children and Children's Places

Standpoint

Street Children

Structure

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)

Vulnerability

Welfare

Work and Working Children

Youth

Helps students to understand some of the key terminology in an easy to read format.

Mrs Nikki Fairchild

Childhood Studies : Early Years, Chichester University

September 7, 2012

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Supportive to present issues.

Mrs Kelly Needham

CCLD / Health and Soical Care, South Leicestershire College

August 17, 2012

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