This thesis explores young people's experiences of, and orientations towards, being and becoming. Using focus groups and interviews with participants aged between 11 and 15, the research investigates how young people form a sense of who they are and who they can become in terms …
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Discipline and Development is based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork with families and in primary schools in a Moroccan village near Fez. I examine the everyday lives of children and youth, situated in the context of uneven state development of this region. In carefully an…
Describes what life was life for nineteenth-century American children, exploring their role in the labor force, the impact changing policies on education and child labor had on their lives, and what they did for fun.
This thesis constitutes an interpretive ethnography of children’s educational experiences in rural Rwanda. It advances a theoretical argument for conceptualizing subjectivity, one which attends to how impersonal forces of political economy and history converge to inform children…
Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children and the effects of air pollution exposure on asthma and respiratory health in children have been a growing concern over recent decades. Although a number of epidemiological studies have been carried out in this field, these h…
The level of brutality and violence against children abducted and forcefully conscripted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda pricked the conscience of humanity. The suffering of the people in northern Uganda was described by Jan Egeland, the former United Nati…
The literature review revealed co-morbidity between adverse childhood experiences, adult psychopathology and alcohol dependence, although causality was questionable due to multiple variables. The current study used 54 clients at the acute end of the spectrum of severe alcohol de…
The authors of this book examine the political issues surrounding childhood, including law making, social policy, government provision & political activisim. It will be a highly pertinent text for students and teachers in higher education.
My dissertation examines the economic links between people's experiences in early and later-life. It offers new empirical evidence on the effect of income in infancy on later-life outcomes, and investigates the performance and econometric properties of the linking tools often us…
Chronic stressors and complex trauma impact the neurobiological development of children, subsequently affecting the utilization of executive functioning. These skills are instrumental in the implementation of self-regulatory learning strategies necessary for academic success. Th…
This article examines the history of music and arts integration on childhood-age learning processes, with emphases on the cognitive and educational benefits of music. The researcher proposes the question, “What role does music play in a typical elementary classroom?” and investi…
Children are important members of society. Their membership as participants in humanity has gotten lost at times throughout history. Children have a particular type of dependency in relationships with the adults around them. This means that adults need to understand children in …
Background: Infectious diarrhea is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in children living in developing regions of the world. However, the temporal distribution and mechanisms underlying fluctuations in diarrhea incidence are largely unknown. We sought to model all ca…
Despite Nigeria's adoption of the World Health Organization's Expanded Programme on Immunization, many children remain unvaccinated. Data from the 2008 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey revealed DPT3 and OPV3 coverage below 40%. The purpose of this quantitative study was to …
This study investigates infancy and childhood at Kellis 2, a Roman period cemetery (ca. A.D. 50-450), Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, using a bioarchaeological approach emphasizing the integration and interpretation of data from textual, archaeological, environmental, and biological sourc…
The qualitative research approach and life story interview method was used to describe the significant live events of five adults who experienced domestic violence during their childhood and adolescence. The participants were three women and two men who ranged between 23 to 61 y…
This research explores the socially embedded experiences of four adults who migrated in childhood and maintain their mother tongue while acquiring and appropriating a second language and way of being in the world. The participants in this inquiry, from Somalia, Peru, Hong Kong a…
Background: The problem of overweight and obese children now constitutes a global burden, with high prevalence rates being reported in many transitional societies. Children in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are 1.8 times more obese than those in the United States and, by age 18,…