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Informationen zum Autor Alex Owen is Head of the Department and Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood at Liverpool Hope University. Her research focuses on the impact of poverty upon young children’s current life experience and future life chances. She is a Senior Fellow of the HEA and Vice-Chair of Governors at a local primary school. Klappentext Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores what it means to be a 21st century child. Enduring topics as well as new concepts of childhood are unpicked to see how they influence practice, policy and education in an ever changing environment. Zusammenfassung Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores what it means to be a 21st century child. Enduring topics as well as new concepts of childhood are unpicked to see how they influence practice, policy and education in an ever changing environment. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction - Alex Owen 2. The Cotton Wool Child - Zoi Nikiforidou 3. The Selfish Child - Jim Stack 4. The Universal Child - Theodora Papatheodorou 5. The SEN/D Child - Marie Caslin 6. The Regulated Child - Carol Aubrey, Carolyn Blackburn, Charlotte Jones & Rosemarie Lowe 7. The Stressed Child - Nina Sajaniemi 8. The Political Child - Sue Cronin, Ged Mulhaney & Michelle Pearson 9. The Natural Child - Harriet Pattison 10. The Poor Child - Babs Anderson & Alex Owen 11. The Fat Child - Laura Waite& Erin Pritchard
List of contents
1. Introduction - Alex Owen
2. The Cotton Wool Child - Zoi Nikiforidou
3. The Selfish Child - Jim Stack
4. The Universal Child - Theodora Papatheodorou
5. The SEN/D Child - Marie Caslin
6. The Regulated Child - Carol Aubrey, Carolyn Blackburn, Charlotte Jones & Rosemarie Lowe
7. The Stressed Child - Nina Sajaniemi
8. The Political Child - Sue Cronin, Ged Mulhaney & Michelle Pearson
9. The Natural Child - Harriet Pattison
10. The Poor Child - Babs Anderson & Alex Owen
11. The Fat Child - Laura Waite& Erin Pritchard
Report
This is an urgently needed book that explores a number of different concepts of childhood in 21st century. The book throughout considers enduring topics and new concepts of childhood, and initiates a number of questions that students of education, childhood, and early childhood studies can engage as lines of inquiries. Structured around eleven chapters this book addresses contemporary and traditional constructions of childhood and approaches issues around the child, bringing to life theoretical perspectives and liking them to practice with interesting case studies. Important key debates such as the snowflake generation, politics, poverty, equality, and obesity are related to the impact of constructing our views of the child in today s society. The book offers a multidisciplinary approach of the child today that influences practice, policy, & education and offers diverse dimensions to provoke our thinking.
Throughout the book , the high quality chapters help students to understand and question complex issues in childhood that are linked with social problems experienced by children that children themselves and professionals are facing today. Critical and equally helpful, this book is an important contribution of alternative viewing of the child which demonstrates how childhood is constructed today. This book will be necessary reading for all studying childhood and all professionals involved with children as it offers different perspectives for studying children and childhood and discusses child related situations that need special consideration.
Dr. Ioanna Palaiologou 20170301
