Early Childhood Education and Care in a Global Pandemic is a book that highlights how the international early childhood education and care sector responded to the global COVID-19 pandemic. It shows the resiliency of the sector around the world as it grappled with a rapidly chang…
This study explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the 19th and 20th centuries. Adopting a chronological approach to a number of key themes and debates, Melanie Tebbutt compares and contrasts representations and lived experiences while emphasising diver…
In the 1960s and 70s, a new youth consciousness emerged in Western Europe which gave this period its distinct character. This volume demonstrates how international developments fused with national traditions, producing specific youth cultures that became leading trendsetters of …
This text works through common-sense understandings of young people's behaviours and the places they occupy. Drawing upon research from a range of contexts, the text demonstrates the complex ways in which young people creatively shape, contest and resist their engagements with d…
Where do children go and what do they do outdoors? How do they evaluate their own environment? What are their likes and dislikes? What would they like to see added or changed? How can the outdoor environment support healthy child development? How is the impact of the environment…
In this absorbing, clever and funny book, renowned psychotherapist Philippa Perry tells us what really matters and what behavior it is important to avoid - the vital dos and dont's of parenting. Instead of mapping out the 'perfect' plan, Perry offers a big-picture look at the el…
Dieses Buch verschafft einen Überblick über die verschiedenen Möglichkeiten, die Eingewöhnungsphase in der Kindertageseinrichtung optimal zu gestalten. Im Fokus: bindungstheoretische Grundlagen, die verdeutlichen wie verantwortungsvoll diese Aufgabe und wie sensibel diese Phase …
Gender and qualitative research
by Pilcher, Jane, Coffey, Amanda
fromCardiff papers in qualitative research
This work draws together contributions on the theme of gender. They all call on qualitative research methods and offer a variety of perspectives on masculinity and femininity. The book also provides a sociological picture of how research on gender contributes to understanding ge…
Peter Kelly and Annelies Kamp present an edited collection that explores the challenges and opportunities faced by young people in an often dangerous 21st century. In an increasingly globalised world these challenges and opportunities include those associated with widening inequ…
In this beautifully-argued book, Karen Cristensen and Ingrid Guldvik provide a comparatively-based insight to the historical context for public care work and show how migration policies, general welfare and long-term care policies (including the cash-for-care schemes) as well as…
Cristensen and Guldvik's Migrant Care Workers provides insight to the historical context for public care work and shows how migration policies, general welfare and long-term care policies as well as cultural differences in values in the UK and Norway set the context for how migr…
In this beautifully-argued book, Karen Cristensen and Ingrid Guldvik provide a comparatively-based insight to the historical context for public care work and show how migration policies, general welfare and long-term care policies (including the cash-for-care schemes) as well as…