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Discrimination

Christia Spears Brown

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Discrimination Introduction Discrimination is remarkably complex. At its most simple, discrimination involves harmful actions toward others bec...

Disney, Walt

Brenda Ayres

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-04-22

Walt Disney Introduction Walt Disney was born in Chicago on 5 December 1901, the youngest of four sons, with a sister to follow. In 1906 the f...

Early Childhood

Glenda MacNaughton

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Early Childhood Introduction Early childhood is the period of childhood between birth and eight years of age. While the provision of targeted e...

Education

Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Education Introduction Colloquially, “education” usually means “schooling,” and thus this bibliography focuses on schooling, although it will b...

Environment, Children and the

Louise Chawla, Debbie Flanders Cushing, Laura Healey Malinin, Illène Pevec, Willem van Vliet, Kelly Zuniga

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Children and the Environment Introduction Children and the environment cover a broad, interdisciplinary field of research and practice. The soc...

Eugenics

Kieron Sheehy

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-05-28

Eugenics Introduction Charles Darwin (b. 1809–d. 1882) published On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871). These texts in...

Female Genital Cutting

Elizabeth Heger Boyle

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-05-28

Female Genital Cutting Introduction Female genital cutting (FGCs; also known as female circumcision or female genital mutilation) affects milli...

Feral and "Wild" Children

Michael Newton

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-05-28

Feral and “Wild” Children Introduction The term feral children has been taken as applying to those who have endured three very different kinds...

Food

Deborah Albon

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-02-26

Food Introduction The area of “children and food” contains work from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, dietetics, and...

Freud, Anna

Nick Midgley

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-05-28

Anna Freud Introduction Anna Freud (b. 1895–d. 1982) was a child analyst and the youngest daughter of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanal...

Freud, Sigmund

Todd Dufresne

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-05-28

Sigmund Freud Introduction Sigmund Freud was born in Moravia (now the Czech Republic) on 6 May 1856, spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria...

Friends and Peers: Psychological Perspectives

Barry Schneider

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-04-22

Friends and Peers: Psychological Perspectives Introduction In the first years of the formal study of psychology, from the late 19th century th...

Gay and Lesbian Parents

Anna Malmquist, Karin Zetterqvist Nelson

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-05-28

Gay and Lesbian Parents Introduction Research on gay and lesbian parenthood is diverse, covering a wide range of topics approached from differ...

Gender and Childhood

Anna Mae Duane

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-08-29

Gender and Childhood Introduction The organization of this bibliography reflects the evolving, often contradictory state of scholarly work on ...

Globalization

Elizabeth Chin

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-04-22

Globalization Introduction Globalization is generally defined as a set of processes and contexts emerging out of the nexus of capitalism, tech...

Hall, G. Stanley

Don Romesburg

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-05-28

G. Stanley Hall Introduction Granville Stanley Hall (b. 1844–d. 1924) was arguably the father of developmental psychology in the United States...

Hispanic Childhoods (U.S.)

Alejandro E. Brice

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-04-22

Hispanic Childhoods (United States) Introduction Hispanics, or Latinos (these two terms are used interchangeably throughout this article), are...

History of Childhood in America

Susan Miller

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

History of Childhood in America Introduction The history of childhood and youth is a relatively new field in American history that has grown e...

Infancy and Ethnography

Tobias Hecht

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Infancy and Ethnography Introduction The study of infancy remains mostly the province of the specialists: developmental psychologists, pediatri...

Labor, Child

Mary Lorena Kenny

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Child Labor Introduction Approaches to research on child labor and the development of appropriate action to combat it have shifted in the past ...

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