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The editor of this volume takes on the challenging task of presenting an encompassing view of childbirth in America from an anthropological perspective.

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This comprehensive reference analyzes psychological and anthropological studies concerning child and adolescent development across cultures, digging into often-forgotten topics like street children, child soldiers, and parenting in war-torn countries.

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This comprehensive reference analyzes psychological and anthropological studies concerning child and adolescent development across cultures, digging into often-forgotten topics like street children, child soldiers, and parenting in war-torn countries.

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This engagingly written compendium is packed with humorous, dramatic, surprising, and inspiring facts about the past, present, and future of children and childhood.

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A study that critically examines the basis for the belief that compulsory education is a necessary social good. It also addresses whether adulthood should be conceived as an entirely separate realm from childhood.

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Philosophical accounts of childhood have tended to derive from Plato and Aristotle, who portrayed children as unreasonable and incomplete in terms of lacking formal and final causes and ends. This title examines the idea that compulsory education is a social good, and that adulthood and childhood should be considered as entirely separate realms.

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Experts from across disciplines join forces here to focus attention on current American culture and the devastating effects it is having on its children.

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This accessible, informative book will help teachers, parents, and practitioners make sense of current issues and controversies surrounding childhood disabilities.

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This work is an important new edition of a classic study-one of the few exhaustive examinations of childhood sexual abuse available-with 40 percent new material.

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All children have the right to play and it is important that childcare practitioners promote and value this right. This book is suitable for students of the Diploma for Home-based Childcare, and for practising nannies who are looking for fresh ideas and advice on how to encourage the learning of children in their care through play.

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Child-rearing, as a basic function of society, provides an opportunity for comparative study of two very different societies in this work, a revision of Xiao's (sociology, Central Washington U.) doctoral thesis. Following an examination of the literature, Xiao defines her theoretical foundation she

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The volume was inspired by the Children and Anthropology conference at the 14th International Congress of Anthropology and Ethnological Sciences, which was held at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, in July of 1998.

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This book helps educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle.

Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators is the first book to show the connection between accepted educational theories and chess.

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The study of children outside of psychological constructs is gaining significance. Designed for students at many levels as well as general readers, this title provides a narrative history of key topics in the contexts of the lives of children and youth in the United States and around the world.

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The increasing reliance of our educational system on standardized tests has precipitated a national debate. This book makes a scholarly contribution to the debate by using the methods of discourse analysis to examine not only representative material from reading tests but also children's responses to it.

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This volume is a contribution to the debate on the reliance of the education system on standardized tests. It uses the methods of discourse analysis to examine not only material from reading tests but also children's responses to it. It also explores the role of culture in shaping children's understanding.

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Draws on international case studies, including India, South Africa and the Caribbean, to explore everyday childhood in relation to employment, religion, policing, war and migration. >

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Explores everyday childhood in relation to employment, religion, policing, war and migration, drawing on children's experiences in a variety of contexts and countries.

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Television is often cited as a cause of violent crime or behaviour. Usually, this connection is made in the context of the behaviour of young people - as another way of blaming them for the broader ills of society. It is rare, however, for even a single reference to television to be included in the index of reports on juvenile crime.

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Exploring the global dimensions of children at risk, this book discusses the notion of children's rights, and the claim that every child has a right to a cultural identity. It reveals how children's everyday lives and futures are often the stakes in battles that adults wage over definitions of cultural identity and state cultural policies.

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Addresses the tendency for children to be regarded as problems to be solved.