The Palgrave handbook of childhood studies / edited by Jens Qvortrup, William A. Corsaro and Michael-Sebastian Honig.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Qvortrup, Jens
Corsaro, William A.
Honig, Michael-Sebastian, 1950-
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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Physical Description:xiv, 452 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Handbook of childhood studies.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Why social studies of childhood? : an introduction to the handbook / Jens Qvortrup, William A. Corsaro and Michael-Sebastian Honig
  • Childhood as a structural form / Jens Qvortrup
  • Agency / Allison James
  • Child development and the development of childhood / Martin Woodhead
  • How is the child constituted in childhood studies? / Michael-Sebastian Honig
  • Method and methodology in childhood research / Andreas Lange and Johanna Mierendorff
  • The evolution of childhood in Western Europe, c.1400-c.1750 / Harry Hendrick
  • Transitions to modernity / John Gillis
  • Institutionalization as a secular trend / Helga Zeiher
  • Pluralisation of family forms / An-Magritt Jensen
  • Generational order / Leena Alanen
  • Generational relations at family levey / Berry Mayall
  • Children, generational relations and intergenerational justice / Thomas Olk
  • Collective identities / Heinz Hengst
  • Children's bodies / Laura Fingerson
  • Policies in early childhood education and care : potentialities for agency, play and learning / Gunilla Dahlberg
  • Localities : a holistic frame of reference for appraising social justice in children's lives / John McKendrick
  • Children as problems, problems of children / Katherine Brown Rosier
  • Childhood : leisure, culture and peers / Ivar Frønes
  • From child labour to working children's movements / Olga Nieuwenhuys
  • Peer culture / William A. Corsaro
  • Play and games / Ann-Carita Evaldsson
  • Children as consumers / Daniel Thomas Cook
  • Children and television / David Buckingham
  • Children and digital media : online, on site, on the go / Kirsten Drotner
  • Children's rights as human rights : reading the UNCRC / Michael Freeman
  • Interests in and responsibility for children and their life-worlds / Doris Bühler-Niederberger and Heintz Sünker
  • Transnational mobilities and childhoods / Adrian Bailey
  • Closing the gap between rights and the realities of children's lives / Natalie Hevener Kaufman and Irene Rizzini.