Children As Agents In Their Worlds

Author : Sheila Greene,Elizabeth Nixon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317233428

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Children as Agents in Their Worlds by Sheila Greene,Elizabeth Nixon Pdf

Are children the passive recipients of influence from their parents and from society? Is their development determined by their genes and their neurons, or do they have the capacity to think about and influence their own lives and the world around them? How does their interaction with their social and material worlds support or hinder agency? Are children agents, and what do we mean by agency? Children as Agents in Their Worlds aims to answer these questions through a critical psychological and relational approach, while referencing and critiquing a wide range of perspectives from other disciplines including sociology, anthropology and education. Greene and Nixon review the pioneering work of scholars of childhood studies and current post-human theories of agency and offer a developmental perspective on the emergence of the sense of agency and the exercise of agency in children. They discuss key themes including agency in families, agency within the school context and with peers, and children as agents in the wider public sphere. They explore agency and diversity, examining sex, age, genetic inheritance and contextual sources of difference, such as social class and geographical location. Offering a stronger theoretical base for research and policy, through a synthesis of both psychological and relational theories, Children as Agents in Their Worlds will be essential reading for students and professionals in developmental psychology, sociology and anthropology, as well as education, childhood studies, children’s rights and related fields.

Author : Sheila Greene,Elizabeth Nixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1315625911

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Children as Agents in Their Worlds by Sheila Greene,Elizabeth Nixon Pdf

Are children the passive recipients of influence from their parents and from society? Is their development determined by their genes and their neurons, or do they have the capacity to think about and influence their own lives and the world around them? How does their interaction with their social and material worlds support or hinder agency? Are children agents, and what do we mean by agency? Children as Agents in Their Worlds aims to answer these questions through a critical psychological and relational approach, while referencing and critiquing a wide range of perspectives from other disciplines including sociology, anthropology and education. Greene and Nixon review the pioneering work of scholars of childhood studies and current post-human theories of agency and offer a developmental perspective on the emergence of the sense of agency and the exercise of agency in children. They discuss key themes including agency in families, agency within the school context and with peers, and children as agents in the wider public sphere. They explore agency and diversity, examining sex, age, genetic inheritance and contextual sources of difference, such as social class and geographical location. Offering a stronger theoretical base for research and policy, through a synthesis of both psychological and relational theories, Children as Agents in Their Worlds will be essential reading for students and professionals in developmental psychology, sociology and anthropology, as well as education, childhood studies, children's rights and related fields.

Author : Christian Laes,Ville Vuolanto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317175506

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Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World by Christian Laes,Ville Vuolanto Pdf

Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World explores what it meant to be a child in the Roman world - what were children’s concerns, interests and beliefs - and whether we can find traces of children’s own cultures. By combining different theoretical approaches and source materials, the contributors explore the environments in which children lived, their experience of everyday life, and what the limits were for their agency. The volume brings together scholars of archaeology and material culture, classicists, ancient historians, theologians, and scholars of early Christianity and Judaism, all of whom have long been involved in the study of the social and cultural history of children. The topics discussed include children's living environments; clothing; childhood care; social relations; leisure and play; health and disability; upbringing and schooling; and children's experiences of death. While the main focus of the volume is on Late Antiquity its coverage begins with the early Roman Empire, and extends to the early ninth century CE. The result is the first book-length scrutiny of the agency and experience of pre-modern children.

Author : Deborah Levison,Mary Jo Maynes,Frances Vavrus
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030636326

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Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents by Deborah Levison,Mary Jo Maynes,Frances Vavrus Pdf

This textbook showcases innovative approaches to the interdisciplinary field of childhood and youth studies, examining how young people in a wide range of contemporary and historical contexts around the globe live their young lives as subjects, objects, and agents. The diverse contributions examine how children and youth are simultaneously constructed: as individual subjects through social processes and culturally-specific discourses; as objects of policy intervention and other adult power plays; and also as active agents who act on their world and make meaning even amidst conditions of social, political, and economic marginalization. In addition, the book is centrally engaged with questions about how researchers take into consideration children’s and young people’s own conceptions of themselves and how we conceptualize child and youth potentials for agency at different ages and stages of growing up. Each chapter discusses substantive research but also engages in self-reflection about methodology, positionality, and/or disciplinarity, thus making the volume especially useful for teaching. This book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including childhood studies, youth studies, girls’ studies, development studies, research methods, sociology, anthropology, education, history, geography, public policy, cultural studies, gender and women’s studies and global studies.

Author : United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210597524

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The State of the World's Children 2006 by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Pdf

This year’s report highlights the needs of the millions of children who have not been the beneficiaries of past gains, the ones who are excluded or ‘invisible’. As the world presses ahead with the strategies, initiatives and financing needed to realize the vision of the Millennium Declaration, it must not allow these children to be forgotten.

Author : Ben Kopp
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780985149000

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What Makes the World Turn by Ben Kopp Pdf

Author : Carol Bellamy
Publisher : UNICEF
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789280636338

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The State of the World's Children 2001 by Carol Bellamy Pdf

Drawing on reports from the world over, this details the lives of parents and daily caregivers who are striving, in the face of war and poverty, to protect the rights and meet the needs of young children from birth to the age of 3.

Author : Emanuela Guarcello,Abele Longo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000952926

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School Children as Agents of Change by Emanuela Guarcello,Abele Longo Pdf

This edited volume promotes the capacity for critical thinking and judgement in primary school-aged children in the face of the challenges that schools encounter in today’s society. Foregrounding critical thinking and judgement as essential capacities for children to develop, each chapter offers a space for reflection on the formation of the ability to think and judge in primary school. While presenting a robust conceptual and foundational framework, chapters focus on the educational-didactic practices deemed most authoritative due to their impact on, and their innovative qualities within, the educational landscape today. Themes affecting schools in both the global north and south are discussed, such as social relationships, children’s voices, life skills and digital education, well-being and health, as well as matters of social plurality, inequalities and discrimination, ecology, global economy and the decolonising of education from various international perspectives. Foregrounding real-world experience within the education system, this book will be of relevance to researchers, scholars and post-graduates in the fields of philosophy of education, moral education and child development. It will also be of interest to pre- and in-service primary education practitioners.

Author : Kieran Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000044645

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The Development of Child Protection Law and Policy by Kieran Walsh Pdf

This book examines how child protection law has been shaped by the transition to late modernity and how it copes with the ever-changing concept of risk. The book traces the evolution of the contemporary child protection system through historical changes, assessing the factors that have influenced the development of legal responses to abuse over a 130-year period. It does so by focussing on the Republic of Ireland where child protection has become emblematic of wider social change. The work draws on a wide range of primary and secondary sources including legislation, case law and official and media reports of child protection inquiries. It also utilises insights developed through an extensive examination of parliamentary debates on child protection matters. These materials are assessed through the lens of critical discourse analysis to explore the relationship between law, social policy and social theory as they effect child protection. While the book utilises primarily Irish sources, this multidisciplinary approach ensures the argument has international applicability. The book will be a valuable resource for all those with an interest in the development of child protection law.

Author : United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210597517

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The State of the World's Children 2005 by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Pdf

The 2005 edition of UNICEF’s State of the World’s Children focuses on how poverty, conflict and HIV/AIDS threaten the idea of childhood as a period of time for children to grow and develop to their full potential. In several regions and countries, some of the gains made since the adoption of the Convention on the rights of the child in 1989 are in danger of reversal. The rights of over 1 billion children are violated by being severely underserved of one or more of the basic services required to survive, grow and develop.

Author : Camilla Morelli
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978825239

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Children of the Rainforest by Camilla Morelli Pdf

Children of the Rainforest explores the lives of children growing up in a time of radical change in Amazonia. The book draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with the Matses, a group of hunter-gatherer forest dwellers who have lived in voluntary isolation until fairly recently. Having worked with them for over a decade, returning every year to their villages in the rainforest, Camilla Morelli follows closely the life-trajectories of Matses children, watching them shift away from the forest-based lifestyles of their elders and move towards new horizons crisscrossed by concrete paving, lit by the glow of electric lights and television screens, and centered around urban practices and people. The book uses drawings and photographs taken by the children themselves to trace the children’s journeys—lived and imagined—from their own perspectives, proposing an ethnographic analysis that recognizes children’s imaginations, play, and shifting desires as powerful catalysts of social change.

Author : Aida Orgocka,Christina Clark-Kazak
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118431528

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Independent Child Migrations: Insights into Agency, Vulnerability, and Structure by Aida Orgocka,Christina Clark-Kazak Pdf

Explore the complexities of international independent child migration. This volume gives particular focus to agency and vulnerability as central concepts for understanding the diverse experiences of children who have migrated alone. Combining perspectives from academics and practitioners, the volume is filled with thought-provoking insights into the nature of current programmatic interventions for independent child migrants. It further invites critical reflection on the complex socio-economic, political, and cultural contexts in which migration decisions are taken. Contributors recognize that independent child migrants, despite vulnerabilities, are active decision-makers in determining movement, responding to violent and discriminatory situations, resisting stereotypical assumptions, and figuring out integration and life choices as these are shaped by existing structural opportunities and constraints. This is the 136th volume in this series. Its mission is to provide scientific and scholarly presentations on cutting edge issues and concepts in child and adolescent development. Each volume focuses on a specific new direction or research topic and is edited by experts on that topic.

Author : John Reader
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334053644

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Crucible by John Reader Pdf

Crucible is the Christian journal of social ethics. It is produced quarterly, pulling together some of the best practitioners, thinkers, and theologians in the field. Each issue reflects theologically on a key theme of political, social, cultural, or environmental significance.

Author : Ursula Kilkelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351572071

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Children's Rights by Ursula Kilkelly Pdf

The articles in this volume shed light on some of the major tensions in the field of children?s rights (such as the ways in which children?s best interests and respect for their autonomy can be reconciled), challenges (such as how the CRC can be made a reality in the lives of children in the face of ignorance, apathy or outright opposition) and critiques (whether children?s rights are a Western imposition or a successful global consensus). Along the way, the writing covers a myriad of issues, encompassing the opposition to the CRC in the US; gay parenting: Dr Seuss?s take on children?s autonomy; the voice of neonates on their health care; the role of NGO in supporting child labourers in India, and young people in detention and more.

Author : Judith Dinham
Publisher : Cengage AU
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780170420594

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Delivering Authentic Arts Education 4e by Judith Dinham Pdf

This market-leading practical text helps student teachers develop their confidence, understanding and skills to effectively and authentically teach arts. With a strong balance between theory and practice, Delivering Authentic Arts Education outlines the true nature of the key learning area of arts education and its importance in the curriculum, emphasising the arts as forms of creative activity, meaning-making and expression in a cultural context. Initial chapters discuss how to recognise and build on existing artistic abilities and pedagogical skills, how to encourage children’s creativity, how to lead arts appreciation experiences, and the general principles of planning and assessment. Part 2 specifically examines the five arts areas: dance, drama, media arts, music and visual arts. The final part of the text, Units of Inquiry, contains valuable sample learning activities and resources that demonstrate how to plan an effective lesson within a unit of inquiry.