This anthology presents new research related to welfare state, child care policies and small children's every day lives in early childhood education and care in institutions in Europe. By uniting recent social childhood research, welfare perspectives as well as historical and co…
Based on the pioneering work of Mary D. Sheridan, Play in Early Childhood is a classic introductory text to play and development - key topics for all those who work with young children. Updated for a contemporary audience and fully evidence-based, it explains how children's play…
Includes the now classic analysis of how social class shapes parenting in unexpected fashion in white and African-American families. A decade after the original study, Lareau revisited the families to examine social class in the transition to adulthood. The second edition has 10…
In the light of the complex demographic shifts associated with late modernity and the impetus of neo-liberal politics, childhood continues all the more to operate as a repository for the articulation of diverse social and cultural anxieties. Since the Thatcher years, juvenile de…
En bog, som handler om forandringer, og om at turde være sig selv.
En bog, som handler om forandringer, og om at turde være sig selv
More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in cities. Here, Horschelmann and van Blerk provide a vivid picture of children and youths in the city, how they make sense of it and how they appropriate it through their social actions. C…
Explores the private struggle of adults who were raised by narcissistic parent. The author herself the child of a narcissist, reveals the unique ordeal faced by these adult children. Their stories tell of their efforts to free themselves from the web of their parents' distortion…
