Childhood Cultures In Transformation

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004445666

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Childhood Cultures in Transformation by Anonim Pdf

This book investigates and uncover paradoxes and ambivalences that are actualised when seeking to make the right choices in the best interests of the child. The 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child established a milestone for the 20th century. Many of these ideas still stand, but time calls for new reflections, empirical descriptions and knowledge as provided in this book. Special attention is directed to the conceptualisation of children and childhood cultures, the missing voices of infants and fragile children, as well as transformations during times of globalisation and change. All chapters contribute to understand and discuss aspects of societal demands and cultural conditions for modern-day children age 0–18, accompanied by pointers to their future. Contributors are: Eli Kristin Aadland, Wenche Bjorbækmo, Jorunn Spord Borgen, Gunn Helene Engelsrud, Kristin Vindhol Evensen, Eldbjørg Fossgard, Liv Torunn Grindheim, Asle Holthe, Liisa Karlsson, Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager, Jonatan Leer, Ida Marie Lyså, Elin Eriksen Ødegaard, Czarecah Tuppil Oropilla, Susanne Højlund Pedersen, Anja Maria Pesch, Karen Klitgaard Povlsen, Gro Rugseth, Pauline von Bonsdorff, Hege Wergedahl and Susanne C. Ylönen.

Author : Elin Eriksen Ødegaard,Jorunn Spord Borgen
Publisher : Brill
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9004433651

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Childhood Cultures in Transformation by Elin Eriksen Ødegaard,Jorunn Spord Borgen Pdf

The authors of Childhood Cultures in Transformation offers valuable examples, overviews and fresh critique after 30 years with the UNCRC in action. The book takes a Nordic glance and presents missing voices of children, young people, researchers and child experts.

Author : Stefan Faas,Dagmar Kasüschke,Elena Nitecki,Mathias Urban,Helge Wasmuth
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030271190

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Globalization, Transformation, and Cultures in Early Childhood Education and Care by Stefan Faas,Dagmar Kasüschke,Elena Nitecki,Mathias Urban,Helge Wasmuth Pdf

This edited volume provides a critical discussion of globalization and transformation, considering the cultural contexts of early childhood education systems as discourses as well as concrete phenomena and ‘lived experience.’ The book focuses on theoretical explorations and critical discourses at the level of education policy (macro), the level of institutions (meso), and the level of social interactions (micro). The chapters offer a wide range of interpretative, contextualized perspectives on early childhood education as a cultural construct.

Author : Marina Balina,Larissa Rudova,Anastasia Kostetskaya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000780727

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Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood by Marina Balina,Larissa Rudova,Anastasia Kostetskaya Pdf

Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood is a collection of multidisciplinary scholarly essays on childhood experience. The volume offers new critical approaches to Russian and Soviet childhood at the intersection of philosophy, literary criticism, film/visual studies, and history. Pedagogical ideas and practices, and the ideological and political underpinnings of the experience of growing up in pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union, and Putin’s contemporary Russia are central venues of analysis. Toward the goal of constructing the "multimedial childhood text," the contributors tackle issues of happiness and trauma associated with childhood and foreground its fluidity and instability in the Russian context. The volume further examines practices of reading childhood: as nostalgic text, documentary evidence, and historic mythology. Considering Russian childhood as historical documentation or fictional narrative, as an object of material culture, and as embodied in different media (periodicals, visual culture, and cinema), the volume intends to both problematize but also elucidate the relationship between childhood, history, and various modes of narrativity.

Author : Lynn M. Nybell,Jeffrey J. Shook,Janet L. Finn
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231141406

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Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation by Lynn M. Nybell,Jeffrey J. Shook,Janet L. Finn Pdf

Contributors analyze how economic, political, and cultural changes over the past several decades have reshaped the experiences and representations of children and youth in the United States. From publisher description.

Author : Julie C. Garlen,Lisa Farley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000191288

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The Child in Question by Julie C. Garlen,Lisa Farley Pdf

What is a child? The concept of childhood is so familiar that we tend to assume its universality. However, the meaning of childhood is always being negotiated, not only by the imaginations of adults, but also by nations, markets, history and children themselves. Yet, as much as the question is considered by the social world, the contributions in this book remind readers that children are also active, embodied, and inquiring agents engaged in figuring a relationship with that the world they inherit. This book’s unifying theme, "The child in question," emerges from an assertation that childhood has boundaries far more elastic than can be held by the familiar notion of the innocent child developing toward a heteronormative future. The title pays homage to the work of sociologist, Diana Gittins, who, over twenty years ago, asked how the shifting meanings of children and childhood impact the lives of children. The contributions of this book examine contemporary educational policy and practice, curriculum material, literary and visual representations, and teacher narratives to further probe how and why it matters that childhood, as a concept and experience, remains as multiple and elusive as ever. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Curriculum Inquiry.

Author : Susan S. Chuang
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739167069

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Immigrant Children by Susan S. Chuang Pdf

Over the past several decades, the demographic populations of many countries such as Canada as well as the United States have greatly transformed. Most striking is the influx of recent immigrant families into North America. As children lead the way for a 'new' North America, this group of children and youth is not a singular homogenous group but rather, a mosaic and diverse ethnic, racial, and cultural group. Thus, our current understanding of 'normative development' (covering social, psychological, cognitive, language, academic, and behavioral development), which has been generally based on middle-class Euro-American children, may not necessarily be 'optimal' development for all children. Researchers are widely recognizing that the theoretical frameworks and models of child development lack the sociocultural and ethnic sensitivities to the ways in which developmental processes operate in an ecological context. As researchers progress and develop promising forms of methodological innovation to further our understanding of immigrant children, little effort has been placed to collectively organize a group of scholarly work in a coherent manner. Some researchers who examine ethnic minority children tended to have ethnocentric notions of normative development. Thus, some ethnic minority groups are understood within a 'deficit model' with a limited scope of topics of interest. Moreover, few researchers have specifically investigated the acculturation process for children and the implications for cultural socialization of children by ethnic group. This book represents a group of leading scholars' cutting-edge research which will not only move our understanding forward but also to open up new possibilities for research, providing innovative methodologies in examining this complex and dynamic group. Immigrant Children: Change, Adaptation, and Cultural Transformation will also take the research lead in guiding our current knowledge of how development is influenced by a variety of sociocultural factors, placing future research in a better position to probe inherent principles of child development. In sum, this book will provide readers with a richer and more comprehensive approach of how researchers, social service providers, and social policymakers can examine children and immigration.

Author : An-Magritt Jensen,Lorna McKee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134471904

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Children and the Changing Family by An-Magritt Jensen,Lorna McKee Pdf

This timely and thought-provoking book explores how social and family change are colouring the experience of childhood. The book is centred around three major changes: parental employment, family composition and ideology. The authors demonstrate how children's families are transformed in accordance with societal changes in demographic and economic terms, and as a result of the choices parents make in response to these changes. Despite claims that society is becoming increasingly child-centred, this book argues that children still have little influence over the major changes in their lives. This book breaks new ground by researching family change from the child's point of view. Through combinations from childhood experts in Scandinavia, the UK and America, the book shows the importance of studying children's lives in families in order to understand how far children are active agents in contemporary society. Students of childhood studies, sociology, social work and education will find this book essential reading. It will also be of interest to practitioners in the social, child and youth services.

Author : Helen Schwartzman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461339380

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Transformations by Helen Schwartzman Pdf

Writing a book about play leads to wondering. In writing this book, I wondered first if it would be taken seriously and then if it might be too serious. Eventually, I realized that these concerns were cast in terms of the major dichotomy that I wished to question, that is, the very perva sive and very inaccurate division that Western cultures make between play and seriousness (or play and work, fantasy and reality, and so forth). The study of play provides researchers with a special arena for re-thinking this opposition, and in this book an attempt is made to do this by reviewing and evaluating studies of children's transformations (their play) in relation to the history of anthropologists' transformations (their theories). While studying play, I have wondered in the company of many individuals. I would first like to thank my husband, John Schwartzman, for acting as both my strongest supporter and, as an anthropological colleague, my severest critic. His sense of nonsense is always novel as well as instructive. I am also very grateful to Linda Barbera-Stein for her Sherlock Holmes style help in locating obscure references, checking and cross-checking information, and patience and persistence in the face of what at times appeared to be bibliographic chaos. I also owe special thanks to my teachers of anthropology-Paul J. Bohannan, Johannes Fabian, Edward T. Hall, and Roy Wagner-whose various orientations have directly and indirectly influenced the approach presented in this book.

Author : Roger M. Neustadter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Children
ISBN : 0820451657

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The Obvious Child by Roger M. Neustadter Pdf

Author : Karin Murris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317511687

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The Posthuman Child by Karin Murris Pdf

The Posthuman Child combats institutionalised ageist practices in primary, early childhood and teacher education. Grounded in a critical posthumanist perspective on the purpose of education, it provides a genealogy of psychology, sociology and philosophy of childhood in which dominant figurations of child and childhood are exposed as positioning child as epistemically and ontologically inferior. Entangled throughout this book are practical and theorised examples of philosophical work with student teachers, teachers, other practitioners and children (aged 3-11) from South Africa and Britain. These engage arguments about how children are routinely marginalised, discriminated against and denied, especially when the child is also female, black, lives in poverty and whose home language is not English. The book makes a distinctive contribution to the decolonisation of childhood discourses. Underpinned by good quality picturebooks and other striking images, the book's radical proposal for transformation is to reconfigure the child as rich, resourceful and resilient through relationships with (non) human others, and explores the implications for literary and literacy education, teacher education, curriculum construction, implementation and assessment. It is essential reading for all who research, work and live with children.

Author : Mariane Hedegaard,Elin Eriksen Ødegaard
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030362713

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Children's Exploration and Cultural Formation by Mariane Hedegaard,Elin Eriksen Ødegaard Pdf

This open access book examines the educational conditions that support cultures of exploration in kindergartens. It conceptualises cultures of exploration, whether those cultures are created through children’s own engagement or are demanded of them through undertaking specific tasks within different institutional settings. It shows how the conditions for children’s exploration form a web of activities in different settings with social relationships, local landscapes and artefacts. The book builds on the understanding of cultural traditions as deeply implicated in the developmental processes, meaning that local considerations must be reflected in education for sustainable futures. Therefore the book examines and conceptualises exploration and cultural formation through locally situated cases and navigates toward global educational concepts. The book provides different windows into how children may explore in everyday practice settings in kindergarten, and contributes to a loci-based, ecological, integral knowledge relevant for early childhood education.

Author : Roberta Wollons,Roberta Lyn Wollons
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780300077889

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Kindergartens and Cultures by Roberta Wollons,Roberta Lyn Wollons Pdf

At the turn of the nineteenth century, the German kindergarten - banned by the Prussian government as revolutionary - spread rapidly to nations around the globe, becoming at once a local and modernising institution. This book is a collection of case studies that describe the remarkable diffusion, adoption, and transformation of the kindergarten in eleven modern and developing nations. The contributors to the volume examine the process by which the idea of the kindergarten arrived and was adopted in these countries - a process that invariably demonstrated the immense power of local cultures, whether Christian, Buddhist, or Islamic, to respond to and reformulate borrowed ideas. Borrowing cultures do not engage in passive mimicry, the studies show, but recast ideas for their own purposes. Beginning with Germany, the chapters of this book follow the kindergarten idea as it passed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the United States, then England, Australia, Japan, China, Poland, Russia, Vietnam, Turkey, and Israel. The contributors examine such complex political, social, and cultural issues as the relationship of gender to national educational policies, the impact of mi

Author : Lynn M. Nybell,Jeffrey J. Shook,Janet L. Finn
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231518529

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Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation by Lynn M. Nybell,Jeffrey J. Shook,Janet L. Finn Pdf

Social workers today not only face competing claims concerning the rights and needs of children and youth, but they also confront contradictions between policy and practice. Social workers are expected to fight for the best interests of the child, even though financial support for children's welfare and education grows scarce. They are asked to save "children at risk," while, at the same time, they are urged to protect communities from "risky children"; and they are encouraged to "leave no child behind," while also implementing "zero tolerance" policies to keep educational environments free from troubled youth. A cutting-edge text that deals directly with the confusion and complexity of modern child welfare, Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation features contributions from a truly interdisciplinary group of practitioners, scholars, and activists. Examining the theoretical, political, and practical aspects of working with youth today, this volume breaks free from existing modes of thought and strategies of practice and prompts readers to critically reflect on accepted approaches and new possibilities of action. Contributors analyze how economic, political, and cultural changes over the last several decades have reshaped the experiences and representations of children and youth in the United States. They examine conceptions of troubled children and youth in contemporary policies and programs and assess why certain discourses about troubling youth are so compelling to professionals, policymakers, and the public. In conclusion, these skilled professionals explore the reinvention of social work policy and practice, including the need to forge relationships that respect the experiences, rights, and personhood of children and youth.

Author : Susan S. Chuang,Robert P. Moreno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0739123904

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Immigrant Children by Susan S. Chuang,Robert P. Moreno Pdf

This edited book focuses on immigrant and refugee children around the world and will provide readers with a richer and more comprehensive approach of how researchers, practitioners, and social policymakers can examine immigrant children and youth among ethnic minority families. Also, the chapters will focus on the various methodological advances used to explicitly investigate immigrant children and youth.