Conflicts in childhood / edited by Miriam Damrow and Helen Hearn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Damrow, Miriam, editor.

Hearn, Helen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2014]

Summary:

Childhood is not merely a simple developmental stage prior to adulthood but rather a complex, changeable concept that is of interest and debated by international scholars from diverse disciplinary fields. One emerging debate is the perceived conflicts in childhood. Some of these are from adults representations of children, for example in literature, law and education to the practical and relational conflicts children experience at school and at home between peers, siblings and others. This volume presents a collection of these conflicts in childhood from interdisciplinary perspectives. Consideration is given to children’s rights and freedom, childhood relationships, gender, children’s representation in media and policies and politics about children.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Miriam Damrow and Helen Hearn

International Institutions Guarding the Rights of the Child / Marta Prucnal-Wójcik

The Right of the Child To Be Heard and the Question of Maturity: A Recursive Approach to Participation / Daniel Stoecklin and Jennifer Caseldine-Bracht

Socialization and Freedom: The Problem of Childhood in the Cases of Peter Pan, Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland and the Chinese Fantasy Monkey / Shiqin Chen

‘Surfeits of Pathological Piety’: Defining and Denying Childhood in Early Children’s Literature / Richard C. Burke

Contemporary Policy: Children and Young People’s Workforce in Crisis as Schools are Directed to Return to So-Called Traditional Educational Values / Doug Martin and Ally Dunhill

Oversized Loads: Children Parentification in Low-Income Families and the Underlying Parent-Child Dynamics / Li Ping Chee and Esther C. L. Goh

When Does Childhood End? / Marit Netland

Child Protection and Children’s Sexuality in Germany / Miriam K. Damrow

Girls’ Relationships with Others at Primary and Secondary School: How They Affect Bullying and Coping Strategies Used / Helen Hearn

‘Miss in Her Teens’: Parenting Adolescent Gentlewomen in Eighteenth-Century England and Virginia / Cathleene B. Hellier

Children’s Socialization in the Lithuanian Family: Gender and Religious Identities / Rasa Račiūnaitė-Paužuolienė

An Exploratory Study on Parents’ Relationship with Siblings of Children with Autism / Gina W. L. Chan and Esther C. L. Goh

The Role of Children’s Agency in the Dynamics between Parents and Their Children diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) / Hui Mei Wong and Esther C. L. Goh

Sexual and Physical Defiance in Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John / Noora Shamsi Bahar

Portrait of the Child as a Young Artist / Wendy C. Turgeon

Sensei in the Picture: Teachers and Pupils in Japanese School Album Photographs (1942-2010) / Aurore Montoya

Looking through Landscapes of Technology: Impact of Virtual Worlds in Children's Lives / Abílio Oliveira , Ricardo Dias and Bráulio Alturas

We Need to Talk about Ambivalence toward the Child in Contemporary Literary Fiction: A Case Study of Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk about Kevin and Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child / Elizabeth Jackson.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-395-1

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848883956 DOI