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Learning from the Children: Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World (New Directions in Anthropology)
Jacqueline Waldren
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Description for Learning from the Children: Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World (New Directions in Anthropology)
Hardcover. This book offers insights into the lives of children and youth in Britain, Japan, Spain, Israel/Palestine, Pakistan, and Ethiopia. Attention is focused on the child's perspective within the social-power dynamics involved in child-adult relations, which reveals the dilemmas of policy, planning, and parenting in a changing world. Editor(s): Waldren, Jacqueline; Kaminski, Ignacy-Marek. Series: New Directions in Anthropology. Num Pages: 206 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 416. Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World. Series: New Directions in Anthropology. 212 pages, 3 ills. Editor(s): Waldren, Jacqueline; Kaminski, Ignacy-Marek. This book offers insights into the lives of children and youth in Britain, Japan, Spain, Israel/Palestine, Pakistan, and Ethiopia. Attention is focused on the child's perspective within the social-power dynamics involved in child-adult relations, which reveals the dilemmas of policy, planning, and parenting in a changing world. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JHM. Dimension: 160 x 234 x 16. Weight: 416.
Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult–child power dynamics. As a result of the advances in technology and media as well as the effects of globalization, the transmission of social and cultural practices from parents to children is changing. Based on a number of qualitative studies, this book offers insights into the lives of children and youth in Britain, Japan, Spain, Israel/Palestine, and Pakistan. Attention is focused on the child’s perspective within the social-power dynamics involved in adult–child relations, which reveals the dilemmas of policy, planning and parenting in a changing world.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in Anthropology
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857453259
SKU
V9780857453259
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About Jacqueline Waldren
Jacqueline Waldren (1937-2021) was Research Associate, Lecturer and Tutor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and International Gender Studies and a member of Linacre College, University of Oxford. Her research on Europe included identity, gender, migration, tourism and lifestyle changes. Her publications include Insiders and Outsiders (1996), Tourists and Tourism (co-ed., 1997), Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development (co-ed., 2004) and many articles. She was Director of DAMARC, Deia Archaeological and Anthropological Museum and Research Centre in Mallorca, Spain.
Reviews for Learning from the Children: Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World (New Directions in Anthropology)
"This volume is an important contribution to the literature on children, their life worlds and child-parent interaction in multicultural settings. It is not entirely new that children have agency. The merit of the authors of this volume is that they are starting to address which strategies children may use both to strengthen and utilize this agency, and not the least point at limitations of agency."
Harald Beyer Broch, University of Oslo "Overall this is a strong volume with a coherent narrative and some very rich ethnography. I enjoyed reading it - all the contributors write well and have focused on the themes of the book. The links made between academic and practitioner work were very well done and the personal voices of the authors come through strongly. This is often an extremely hard task to pull off without becoming self-indulgent but in this case it worked very well."
Heather Montgomery, The Open University, UK
Harald Beyer Broch, University of Oslo "Overall this is a strong volume with a coherent narrative and some very rich ethnography. I enjoyed reading it - all the contributors write well and have focused on the themes of the book. The links made between academic and practitioner work were very well done and the personal voices of the authors come through strongly. This is often an extremely hard task to pull off without becoming self-indulgent but in this case it worked very well."
Heather Montgomery, The Open University, UK