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The Well-Being, Peer Cultures and Rights of Children
Author(s): Loretta Bass (Author)
- Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
- Publication Date: August 14, 2014
- Language: English
- Print length: 352 pages
- ISBN-10: 1784413267
- ISBN-13: 9781784413262
Book Description
This volume is comprised of empirical research and theoretical papers within three key areas, namely children’s well being, children and youth peer cultures, and the rights of children and youth. These empirical studies include children’s voices and experiences from four continents (Asia, Europe, North America and South America) and a range of methodological and theoretical orientations. A clear connection to social policy at a national and international level is made in many of these studies. Topics are wide-ranging and include: Praetorian militarization; school mobility; math and reading achievement gaps; dating and the developmental discourse in a summer camp; and, school and social exclusion for urban young people. Altogether, these studies highlight how structure and culture both limit and enable the life chances of children, how children interpret and construct their social relations and environments, and how children view themselves as well as how others view the rights of children. This volume is a further example of how the “Sociological Studies of Children and Youth” series successfully showcases major strands of current thinking on children and youth in our world today.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Bass (U. of Oklahoma) and Kinney (Central Michigan U.) present the 14th volume in the series Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, collecting theoretical papers and empirical research in three separate areas of study: children’s well-being, children and youth peer cultures, and the rights of children and youth. Specific topics include children’s experiences of foster care in the United States, math and reading achievement as outcome measures of well-being, how students construct attentiveness in first-grade classrooms, dating and development discourse in a middle school summer camp in the southern US, the problem with current US federal guidelines on parental consent in child research, and political and legal effects of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Latin America. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. –Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR
About the Author
Loretta E. Bass – University of Oklahoma, USA
David A. Kinney – Central Michigan University, USA
David A. Kinney – Central Michigan University, USA
