Childhood Studies - A - Oxford Bibliographies
Addams, Jane
Virginia Yans, Ji-Hye Shin
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Jane Addams Introduction Jane Addams (b. 1860–d. 1935), along with Ellen Gates Starr, was cofounder of Chicago’s Hull-House, a model American ...
Adolescence and Youth
Helena Helve
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Adolescence and Youth Introduction Social-science and humanistic research has focused mainly on young people in the United States and western E...
Adolescent Consent to Medical Treatment
Emma Cave
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Adolescent Consent to Medical Treatment Introduction Subject to certain exceptions, (e.g., emergency treatment), clinicians need a valid conse...
Adoption and Fostering
Rachael Stryker
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Adoption and Fostering Introduction Adoption and fostering are any customary or optional procedures for taking as one’s own a child of other pa...
Advertising and Marketing, Psychological Approaches to
Brian Young
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Psychological Approaches to Advertising and Marketing Introduction The relationship between advertising/marketing and children has been explor...
Africa
Kristen Cheney
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Africa Introduction Research on children and youth in Africa has played a formative role in the advancement of theories in child development, i...
After-school Hours and Activities
Hilary Levey Friedman
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
After-School Hours and Activities Introduction Beginning in the late 19th century, compulsory education had important consequences for the A...
Animals, Children and
Gail F. Melson
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Children and Animals Introduction The study of children’s development traditionally has focused on children’s relationships with other humans....
Animations, Comic Books, and Manga
Robert S. Petersen
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Animations, Comic Books, and Manga Introduction Comic scholarship emerged out of several different arenas, each with its own distinct style an...
Anthropology of Childhood
Heather Montgomery
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Anthropology of Childhood Introduction Children and childhood have long been studied in social and cultural anthropology and have been central ...
Archaeology of Childhood
Suzanne Spencer-Wood
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Archaeology of Childhood Introduction The archaeology of children and childhood developed from 1980s feminist critiques of the neglect of wome...
Ariès, Philippe
Colin Heywood
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Philippe Ariès Introduction It is common currency today that childhood is an invention of modern society, that parents during the medieval per...
Attachment in Children and Adolescents
Jean Mercer
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Attachment in Children and Adolescents Introduction The term “attachment” is used to describe aspects of intense, intimate emotional relations...
Australia, History of Adoption and Fostering in
Shurlee Swain
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
History of Adoption and Fostering in Australia Introduction Known initially as boarding-out, foster care was the preferred method of care for ...
Best Interest of the Child
Johanna Schiratzki
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Best Interest of the Child Introduction The study of the principle of the best interests of the child—or with notions used synonymously in the...
Boy Scouts/Girl Guides
Jay Mechling
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Boy Scouts/Girl Guides Introduction The rise of organizations created by adults for children and youth was made possible by several historical...
Bronfenbrenner, Urie
Jonathan Tudge
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Urie Bronfenbrenner Introduction Urie Bronfenbrenner (b. 1917–d. 2005) was born in Russia but moved to the United States at age six. In an aut...
Child Beauty Pageants
Hilary Levey Friedman
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Child Beauty Pageants Introduction Child beauty pageants are one of the most controversial and vilified of all children’s activities. While ad...
China, Japan, and Korea
Vanessa L. Fong
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
China, Japan, and Korea Introduction Sociologists, anthropologists, and historians have focused on diversity, inequality, and historical transf...
Class
Gillian Evans
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Class Introduction Social class is not generally studied in terms of childhood, but there are good reasons for doing so. A significant proportio...
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