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| Introduction |
An Introduction to Childhood Studies offers a wide-ranging and thought-provoking approach to the study of childhood, providing an important contribution to this burgeoning area of research and teaching. |
| About the book |
"This thoughtful book provides expert overviews of historical, sociological, psychological, cultural, legal and rights-informed approaches to childhood. Through these well written, readable chapters, students will be engaged with important debates in childhood studies, and led towards many ideas and problems for further investigation. This second edition includes new chapters arguing strongly for interdisciplinarity and for measured responses to the current `crisis' in UK childhoods." Berry Mayall, Institute of Education, University of London, UK An Introduction to Childhood Studies offers a wide-ranging and thought-provoking approach to the study of childhood, providing an important contribution to this burgeoning area of research and teaching. It brings together key themes in the area of Childhood Studies, providing a comprehensive and accessible introduction for students and practitioners, helping to answer questions such as:
Revised and updated throughout, the new edition includes:
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| About the author |
Mary Jane Kehily is Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies at the Open University, UK. |
| Table of contents |
The editor and contributors 1. Understanding childhood: an introduction to some key themes and issues Mary Jane Kehily 2. Childhood Studies: past, present and future Martin Woodhead SECTION ONE: Historical Approaches to Childhood 3. The historical construction of childhood Diana Gittens 4. Children's literature and childhood Peter Hunt 5. Innocence and experience: a historical approach to childhood and sexuality Mary Jane Kehily and Heather Montgomery SECTION TWO: Sociocultural Approaches to Childhood 6. Constructing childhood sociologically Chris Jenks 7. Developmental psychology and the study of childhood Valerie Walkerdine 8. New media, new childhoods? Children's changing cultural environment in the age of digital technology David Buckingham SECTION THREE: Policy Perspectives on Childhood 9. Promoting better childhoods: constructions of child concern Wendy Stainton Rogers 10. Children's rights in early childhoood Glenda MacNaughton and Kylie Smith 11. Childhood and the law: in whose `best interests'? Daniel Monk 12. The future of childhood: crisis, cyclical concern or accommodation Mary Jane Kehily |
