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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Why Social Studies of Childhood? An Introduction to the Handbook
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Concepts of Childhood Studies
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Historical and Socio-Economic Contexts of Childhood
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Generational Relations
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Children’s Everyday Lives/The Local Framework
Reviews
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2010
'a very impressive collection that covers a breathtaking amount of ground" - Social Sciences Review
'The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies is...an excellent book...an indispensable working tool for (the next generation of) childhood researchers.' - Childhood
'a rich compendium of current research a journey through the highways and alleyways of a burgeoning area It is the kind of book I want handy as a reference for both teaching and research. An attractive anthology for use in a course on childhood at the advanced undergraduate or graduate levels, it provides multiple tools for navigating theoretical, methodological, and epistemological terrains of research in 'new' childhood studies.' - Sara Dorow, Canadian Journal of Sociology
'for everyone involved in child research this is a must' - Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association
'a very impressive collection that covers a breathtaking amount ofground' - Tom Cockburn, Sozialwissenschaftliche Literatur Rundschau
'The Handbook of Childhood Studies is an excellent resource: comprehensive in scope, interdisciplinary in content, well-chosen topics, with thoughtful essays by major figures in the field. It's a treasure!'
-Barrie Thorne, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, USA; co-editor of Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research
'This collection of essays covers an enormous range of topics on children and childhood and both reviews and extends the thinking within these sub-fiields.The Handbook of Childhood Studies is brimming full of insights and will help to shape theoretical and empirical agendas for researchers within the ever-broadening field of childhood studies.'
- Michael Wyness, Associate Professor in Childhood Studies, University of Warwick, UK
'The Handbook of Childhood Studies orchestrates the arrival, staying power, and significance of Childhood Studiesas a field. With a proliferation of creative ideas, a provocative and thoughtful organization ... the Handbook is deliciously kaleidoscopic - turn one way for rigorous yet consistently fresh views on a broad array of topics that shape the social studies of childhood, turn again and it sparks all kinds of questions and themes for future research'.
- Cindi Katz, Professor of Geography, Graduate Center, The City University of New York, USA
'This is a very significant book which assembles the work of many of the leading interdisciplinary figures in the field of childhood studies. The contents are well organised and the arguments both coherent and compelling. It will be difficult for any future scholar in this area of research to sidestep this major contribution to our understanding'
-Professor Chris Jenks, Vice Chancellor Brunel University, UK
“This wide-ranging volume will be an invaluable resource for practitioners, researchers and students in the social sciences and humanities who are interested in unsettling the demands of normative childhoods.” (Karen Wells, Birkbeck, University of London, UK)“With a host of international authors, this book invites us into the freedom to respond to the complexity of childhood and to do so with respect and wonder.” (Tanya Titchkosky, University of Toronto, Canada)
“The editors combine a profound understanding of the academic complexities and the practical ‘real life’ challenges that ‘trouble’ all scholarly studies that seek to build understand of the lives of disabled children.” (Luke Clements, University of Leeds, UK)
“This much awaitedhandbook carefully and critically traverses a range of areas in unprecedented and genuinely interdisciplinary ways.” (Shaun Grech, The Critical Institute, Malta)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies
Editors: Jens Qvortrup, William A. Corsaro, Michael-Sebastian Honig
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-27468-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-53260-1Published: 17 April 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-53261-8Published: 17 April 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-27468-6Published: 30 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 452
Topics: Sociology, general, Education, general, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Social Work, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging