Exploring Childhood and Youth

This exciting new book illustrates and analyses the complexities of children and young people¿s everyday lived experiences throughout childhood. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it provides theoretical frameworks and case studies to critically examine assumptions in the field and explore emerging perspectives.

List of contents

1. Fluid identities 2. Understanding the Unborn (or Becoming a Child) 3. Critical mental health 4. Everyday experiences of food 5. Everyday violence 6. Spaces for learning 7. Play 8. Young people, children and voluntourism 9. Experiences of poverty 10. How gender hurts, how gender matters 11.: Disability 12. Inequalities in further and higher education 13. The history of disabilities 14. Changing environments: plastic childhoods

About the author

Victoria Cooper is Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies at The Open University, UK and is former Co-Director of the Children’s Research Centre. She is particularly interested in issues of identity, research methods, and children and young people's experiences living with a family health crisis.
Naomi Holford is Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies at The Open University, UK, and specialises in the area of gender, sexuality and class in childhood and youth.

Summary

This exciting new book illustrates and analyses the complexities of children and young people’s everyday lived experiences throughout childhood. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it provides theoretical frameworks and case studies to critically examine assumptions in the field and explore emerging perspectives.

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Holford Cooper
• Assisted by: Victoria Cooper (Editor), Cooper Victoria (Editor), Naomi Holford (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9780367485443
• ISBN: 978-0-367-48544-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, HEALTH & FITNESS / General, HEALTH & FITNESS / Children's Health, Personal & public health, Health & personal development, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Pre-school & kindergarten, Personal and public health / health education, Pre-school and kindergarten, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Health & Sexuality