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Japan, Childhood in
Kristin Williams
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Childhood in JapanIntroductionThis bibliography will introduce major sources on Japanese childhood studies, with an emphasis on sources in English. Fo...
Juvenile Detention in the US
Yvette R. Harris
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Juvenile Detention in the US Introduction According to statistics released by the US Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Del...
Key, Ellen
Hedda Jansson, Luisa Ceccarelli
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
Ellen KeyIntroductionEllen Key (1849–1926) was a Swedish teacher, adult educator, philosopher, writer, and social and peace activist who claimed freed...
Klein, Melanie
Malby Oliver
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
Melanie KleinIntroductionMelanie Klein (b. 1882–d. 1960) proposed a revolutionary way of thinking about children and child psychoanalysis that led to ...
Labor, Child
Mary Lorena Kenny, Kathie Carpenter
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Child LaborIntroductionApproaches to research on child labor, and the development of appropriate action to combat it, have shifted in the past few dec...
Latin America
Tobias Hecht
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Latin America Introduction Children in Latin America have gradually come to attract the attention of researchers from a number of fields. Histo...
Learning to Write
Lan Zhang, Rebecca Treiman
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Learning to WriteIntroductionLearning to write, at both the levels of single words and sentences, is an important objective of literacy instruction. A...
Learning, Language
Amy Paugh
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Language Learning Introduction The study of language learning is central to understanding how children learn to communicate and become competen...
Legends, Contemporary
Elizabeth Tucker, Joel Best
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Contemporary Legends Introduction Contemporary legends (sometimes called urban legends or simply legends) are stories that spread primarily th...
Literary Representations of Childhood
Monica Flegel
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Literary Representations of ChildhoodIntroductionThe increased prominence of child studies has led to the recognition that categories of age, alongsid...
Literature, Children's
Peter Hunt
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Children’s Literature Introduction The study of children’s literature as an academic discipline has developed since the 1980s from its roots i...
Love and Care in the Early Years
Geoff Taggart
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Love and Care in the Early YearsIntroductionIt is widely recognized that children who encounter sensitive and responsive interactions in their setting...
Magazines for Teenagers
Elizabeth Lovegrove
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Magazines for TeenagersIntroductionAlmost since the beginning of the periodical press, there have been publications targeted specifically at children,...
Maltreatment, Child
Jill E. Korbin, Kathryn Maguire-Jack, James C. Spilsbury
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Child MaltreatmentIntroductionChild maltreatment has been described throughout history and across cultures. The term “maltreatment” has come to includ...
Marxism and Childhood
Heather Brown
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Marxism and ChildhoodIntroductionWithin Marxism, there are a number of diverse traditions and viewpoints rather than a single framework. The concept o...
Masculinities/Boyhood
Diederik Janssen
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Masculinities/BoyhoodIntroductionThe intersecting of masculinity studies and childhood studies since the 1990s has been expansive. Questions of gender...
Material Cultures of Western Childhoods
Sharon Brookshaw
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Material Cultures of Western ChildhoodsIntroductionThe word “material” in material culture refers to a broad range of objects classified as “artifacts...
Mead, Margaret
Virginia Yans, Ji-Hye Shin
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2020-06-24
Margaret MeadIntroductionMargaret Mead (b. 1901–d. 1978), one of the 20th century’s most accomplished and controversial anthropologists, pioneered mod...
Media Culture, Children's
Chris Richards, Rebekah Willett
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Children’s Media Culture Introduction The nature of childhood has been widely debated in a variety of academic fields—history, sociology, psyc...
Medieval and Anglo-Saxon Childhoods
Sally Crawford
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2014-02-25
Medieval and Anglo-Saxon Childhoods Introduction Medieval childhood has been a growing area of interest and research since the mid-20th centur...
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