Environment In The Lives Of Children And Families

Author : Phoenix, Ann,Boddy, Janet,Catherine Walker,Uma Vennam
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781447339199

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Environment in the Lives of Children and Families by Phoenix, Ann,Boddy, Janet,Catherine Walker,Uma Vennam Pdf

This new Policy Press Short presents innovative international research into how the term "environment" is understood within families and how that plays out in everyday lives. Based on a study that involved creative qualitative work with families in India and the United Kingdom, it shows how environmental practices are negotiated in families, and how they relate to values, identities, and society. Through that analysis, we begin to see the ways in which families and childhood are constructed as sites for intervention in debates about climate change.

Author : James Garbarino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351528962

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Children and Families in the Social Environment by James Garbarino Pdf

The first edition of this volume successfully applied Bronfenbrenner's "micro-systems" taxonomy to childrearing and family life. Emphasizing how forces in the environment influence children's behavior, Garbarino has staked out an intermediate position between the psychoanalytic and the systems approach to human development. Taking cognizance of new research and of changes in American society, Garbarino has once again carefully analyzed the importance of children's social relationships. For this wholly revised second edition, he has incorporated a greater emphasis on ethnic, cultural, and racial issues.

Author : Ann Phoenix,Janet Boddy,Catherine Walker,Uma Vennam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Children and the environment
ISBN : 1447339223

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Environment in the Lives of Children and Families by Ann Phoenix,Janet Boddy,Catherine Walker,Uma Vennam Pdf

This title presents innovative international research into how the term 'environment' is understood within families and how that plays out in everyday lives. Based on a study that involved creative qualitative work with families in India and the United Kingdom, it shows how environmental practices are negotiated in families, and how they relate to values, identities, and society. Through that analysis, we begin to see the ways in which families and childhood are constructed as sites for intervention in debates about climate change.

Author : Phoenix, Ann,Boddy, Janet
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781447339205

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Environment in the lives of children and families by Phoenix, Ann,Boddy, Janet Pdf

Available Open Access under CC-BY licence. How do environmental policies link to dynamic and relational family practices for children and parents? This Policy Press Short presents innovative cross-national research into how ‘environment’ is understood and negotiated within families, and how this plays out in everyday lives. Based on an ESRC study that involved creative, qualitative work with families in India and the UK who live in different contexts, this book illuminates how environmental practices are negotiated within families, and how they relate to values, identities and society. In doing so, it contributes to understanding of the ways in which families and childhood are constructed as sites for intervention in climate change debates. In an area that is increasingly of concern to governments, NGOs and the general public, this timely research is crucial for developing effective responses to climate change.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Supporting the Parents of Young Children
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309388573

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Parenting Matters by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Supporting the Parents of Young Children Pdf

Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.

Author : James Garbarino
Publisher : Aldine De Gruyter
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0202360806

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Children and Families in the Social Environment by James Garbarino Pdf

The first edition of this widely adopted, interdisciplinary text successfully applied Bronfenbrenner's "micro-systems" taxonomy to child rearing and family life. Emphasizing how forces in the environment of individual children influence their behavior, Garbarino and his associates have staked out a position intermediate between the psychoanalytic and the systems approach to human development. Taking cognizance of new research and of changes in American society over the past decade, Garbarino and his colleagues have once again carefully analyzed the importance of children's social relationships. For this wholly revised second edition, they have incorporated a greater emphasis on ethnic, cultural, and racial issues. They have also furnished a new bibliography that takes account of the burgeoning research in the field.

Author : Claire Freeman,Paul Tranter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136539701

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Children and their Urban Environment by Claire Freeman,Paul Tranter Pdf

In our fast-changing urban world, the impacts of social and environmental change on children are often overlooked. Children and their Urban Environment examines these impacts in detail, looking at the key activities, spaces and experiences children have and how these can be managed to ensure that children benefit from change. The authors highlight the importance of planners, architects and housing professionals in creating positive environments for children and involving them in the planning process. They argue that children‘s lives are becoming simultaneously both richer and more deprived, and that, despite apparently increasing wealth, disparities between children are increasing further. Each chapter includes international examples of good practice and policy innovations for redressing the balance in favour of child supportive environments. The book seeks to embrace childhood as a time of freedom, social engagement and environmental adventure and to encourage creation of environments that better meet the needs of children. The authors argue that in doing so, we will build more sustainable neighbourhoods, cities and societies for the future.

Author : Institute of Medicine,National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Evaluation of Children's Health
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309166607

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Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth by Institute of Medicine,National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Evaluation of Children's Health Pdf

Children's health has clearly improved over the past several decades. Significant and positive gains have been made in lowering rates of infant mortality and morbidity from infectious diseases and accidental causes, improved access to health care, and reduction in the effects of environmental contaminants such as lead. Yet major questions still remain about how to assess the status of children's health, what factors should be monitored, and the appropriate measurement tools that should be used. Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health provides a detailed examination of the information about children's health that is needed to help policy makers and program providers at the federal, state, and local levels. In order to improve children's health-and, thus, the health of future generations-it is critical to have data that can be used to assess both current conditions and possible future threats to children's health. This compelling book describes what is known about the health of children and what is needed to expand the knowledge. By strategically improving the health of children, we ensure healthier future generations to come.

Author : Arland Thornton
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472067583

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The Well-being of Children and Families by Arland Thornton Pdf

An interdisciplinary examination of how well American families and children are faring at the start of the third millennium

Author : JoAnn Louise Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Families
ISBN : CORNELL:31924001858954

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Family Life Space by JoAnn Louise Robinson Pdf

Author : Lisa Sontag-Padilla,Rachel M. Burns,Regina A. Shih,Laurie Thayer Martin,Frances A. Tylavsky,Anita Chandra
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Urban Child Institute CANDLE Study by Lisa Sontag-Padilla,Rachel M. Burns,Regina A. Shih,Laurie Thayer Martin,Frances A. Tylavsky,Anita Chandra Pdf

This report describes the study design and summary data from the first year of data collection for the Urban Child Institute Conditions Affecting Neurocognitive Development and Learning in Early Childhood Study: participant demographics, prenatal and birth measures; child and family health and nutrition; mothers' mental and behavioral health; and cognitive performance, psychosocial measures, and biological samples for mothers and children.

Author : Debi Gliori
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781408839362

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The Trouble With Dragons by Debi Gliori Pdf

NOMINATED FOR THE KATE GREENAWAY MEDAL _______________ 'Gently introduces pre-schoolers to global warming ... It ends with the reassuring hope that we can change and make our world better' - National Geographic 'Delightfully illustrated' - The Sunday Telegraph _______________ From the author of the bestselling No Matter What comes a cautionary tale for readers young and old about the use and misuse of the planet - featuring dragons! The world is populated by some beastly dragons who care nothing for how much they pollute the oceans, chop down the trees, gobble up all the food and use everything up without stopping to think. Those dragons need to wake up to what they are doing to their world before it is too late ... An energy-filled picture book that addresses concerns about the environment in the most child-centric and delightful way possible. _______________ 'Tackles global warming for pre-schoolers: no easy task but beautifully done as an allegory of wasteful dragons who heat the world by breathing fire' - Sunday Express magazine Brilliantly read by Emilia Fox. Please note that audio is not supported by all devices, please consult your user manual for confirmation.

Author : Sandra Feinberg,Joan F. Kuchner,Sari Feldman
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Children's libraries
ISBN : 0838907369

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Learning Environments for Young Children by Sandra Feinberg,Joan F. Kuchner,Sari Feldman Pdf

The vision of Learning Environments for Young Children: Rethinking Library Spaces and Services is about learning, families, and community, where the public library presents a community-based educational setting in which librarians serve as educators, guides, coaches, and facilitators of lifelong, active learning; access for children to enriching, satisfying, and developmentally appropriate resources and learning opportunities; diverse collections, programs, and technical resources for young children and the adults in their lives; programs and resources that encourage children's focused participation, creativity, critical thinking, cooperation, and problem solving; and a nonjudgmental, integrated, and interdisciplinary approach to lifelong learning, developing the whole person, child or adult. Included in Learning Environments for Young Children are field-tested measuring instruments that you and your staff can use to conduct a qualitative assessment of your library's children's services. These ready-to-use forms will help you collect information that will highlight the importance of early childhood services in presentations to funding sources, trustees, and other key stakeholders.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264914117

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Changing the Odds for Vulnerable Children Building Opportunities and Resilience by OECD Pdf

This report analyses the individual and environmental factors that contribute to child vulnerability. It calls on OECD countries to develop and implement cross-cutting well-being strategies that focus on empowering vulnerable families; strengthening children’s emotional and social skills; strengthening child protection; improving children’s health and educational outcomes; and reducing child poverty and material deprivation.

Author : Miriam K. Rosenthal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317782292

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An Ecological Approach To the Study of Child Care by Miriam K. Rosenthal Pdf

A new type of childhood is experienced these days by many children in industrial societies that provide child care services. The studies summarized in this book stem from a conceptual model based on an ecological approach to the study of development. The family day care system in Israel is presented as a "case study" for the discussion of issues derived from this conceptual model -- issues which are of central concern to the investigation of child care in any society. This book establishes how historical and socio-economic processes: *influence the values and goals set by the society for its children, and its social policy concerning child care service; *are interpreted by parents and early childhood educators; *relate to different definitions of "quality care." Unique in its integrative analysis of the daily experiences of infants and toddlers in family day care, this volume examines cultural and social policy issues, family background and parental beliefs, caregiver's background and beliefs, the nature of the child care environment, and the child's personal characteristics. Its "theoretical" and "applied" orientation is important to researchers interested in the study of out-of-home-care for young children, as well as educators, developmental psychologists, sociologists, and social workers interested in the study of environmental influences on the child development. The ecological model and the applied implications of the study are of special relevance to practitioners in the field of early childhood.