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Acknowledgement of ReviewersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Childhood - November 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Book Review: Cassidy, C. (2007) Thinking Children. London and New York: Continuum. (196 pp.). ISBN 0826498183Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Childhood - November 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Melchiorre, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Book Review: De Block, Liesbeth and David Buckingham (2007) Global Children, Global Media: Migration, Media and Childhood. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (222 pp.). ISBN 0230506992Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Childhood - November 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Leinaweaver, J. B. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Forming Identities in Residential Care for Children: Manoeuvring between social work and peer groupsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article challenges the implicit understanding that social work is the primary source of identity transformation and that peer group interaction is mainly an obstacle to overcome. On the contrary, this article argues that learning about the social dynamics of the children’s group is a precondition for understanding how social work influences individual children. (Source: Childhood)
Source: Childhood - November 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Stokholm, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Children Representing Children: Participation and the problem of diversity in UK youth councilsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article is concerned with the relationship between children’s participation and the diversity of childhoods. While there are a number of different arrangements for encouraging children and young people to participate, the article focuses on a dominant mode of participation through which children are elected to represent the interests of other children within formal institutional structures. Drawing on empirical data from work with school and civic councillors in the UK, the article critically addresses two questions: what level of involvement do these child representatives have within their schools and communiti...
Source: Childhood - November 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Wyness, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

A Review of Children's Rights Literature Since the Adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the ChildEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Children’s rights have become a significant field of study during the past decades, largely due to the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in 1989. Today, scholarly work on children’s rights is almost inconceivable without considering the Convention as the bearer of the children’s rights debate. The goal of this article is to critically explore academic work on the UNCRC. By means of a discourse analysis of international literature, the article maps the academic discourse on children’s rights. Three themes are identified that predominate in the academic work ...
Source: Childhood - November 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Reynaert, D., Bouverne-de-Bie, M., Vandevelde, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Gaming and Territorial Negotiations in Family LifeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article examines territorial negotiations concerning gaming, drawing on video recordings of gaming practices in middle-class families. It explores how private vs public gaming space was co-construed by children and parents in front of the screen as well as through conversations about games. Game equipment was generally located in public places in the homes, which can be understood in terms of parents’ surveillance of their children, on the one hand, and actual parental involvement, on the other. Gaming space emerged in the interplay between game location, technology and practices, which blurred any fixed boundar...
Source: Childhood - November 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Aarsand, P. A., Aronsson, K. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Children's Actions when Experiencing Domestic ViolenceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The aim of this article is, by analysing children’s discourses, to investigate their actions or absence of actions during a domestic violence episode. The empirical data are recorded group therapy sessions and individual interviews with children who have grown up experiencing their fathers’ violence against their mothers. The analysis shows that the children’s stories contain two aspects of actions: one related to the actions during the ongoing episode, and one the child perceives as possible/ desirable for the future. The findings are discussed in the light of Lazarus and Folkman’s theory of coping...
Source: Childhood - November 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Overlien, C., Hyden, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

How Children with Parents Suffering from Mental Health Distress Search for 'Normality' and Avoid Stigma: To be or not to be . . . is not the questionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Using data from in-depth interviews with 20 children, this study finds that children with parents suffering from mental health distress struggle hard to present themselves as ‘normal’ and equal among their peer group. The study shows how they avoid stigma in their presentation of self in everyday life. All the children in this study, regardless of age or parents’ suffering, are active participants and impression managers in and of their own lives. The authors question whether their active responsibility for their own and their family’s well-being becomes too heavy a burden and should be moved from c...
Source: Childhood - November 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Haug Fjone, H., Ytterhus, B., Almvik, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Accountability in Family Discourse: Socialization into norms and standards and negotiation of responsibility in Italian dinner conversationsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article explores morality as situated activity and approaches the discursive practice of accountability in Italian family dinner conversations as an avenue for understanding the construction of moral behaviour in everyday interpersonal interaction. The article focuses in particular on vicarious accounts, namely accounts, or explanations, provided by parents for a child’s misbehaviour. It examines the multiple socializing functions that vicarious accounts accomplish and the different dimensions of responsibility that they mobilize. While scaffolding children’s participation in episodes of accountability, vi...
Source: Childhood - November 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Sterponi, L. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Editorial: Ratifying the Convention amidst the messy cultural politics of American childhoodsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Childhood - November 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Cook, D. T. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Book Review: Hill, M., Lockyer, A. and Stone, F. (eds.) (2007) Youth Justice and Child Protection. London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers (320 pp.). ISBN 184310279XEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Childhood - August 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Harrikari, T. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Research With Hospitalized Children: Ethical, methodological and organizational challengesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article reflects on the organizational, practical and ethical challenges that arose from a study that investigated hospitalized children’s experiences of consultation and decision-making. The data collection process was hampered by practical and organizational factors, which consequently led to carrying out more individual interviews than focus groups as planned. Some obstacles associated with the hospital environment were practical issues that could be resolved, in contrast to ethical issues such as consent, privacy, access and the role of gatekeepers. The function of gatekeepers generally and in the healthcare...
Source: Childhood - August 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Coyne, I., Hayes, E., Gallagher, P. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

No Place: Small children in Norwegian asylum-seeker reception centresEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Drawing on empirical material from fieldwork among young children living with their families in two Norwegian reception centres for asylum-seekers, this article compares their realities to the norms and realities for other children in Norway. Children’s spatial and social situations within the centres stand out in stark contrast to Norwegian childhood ideology and norms. The authorities explain the divergence in terms of migration management, and the spatiotemporal and social positions of ‘asylum-seekers’ in relation to those of ‘children’ within the nation-state are brought to the fore in the...
Source: Childhood - August 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Seeberg, M. L., Bagge, C., Enger, T. A. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Childhood Experiences: a Commitment To Caring and Care Work With Vulnerable ChildrenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article draws upon biographical interview material from a mixed-method British study of workers caring for vulnerable children: residential social workers, family support workers, foster carers and community childminders. It has two aims: (1) to identify the contexts — the particular events, circumstances and life course phases — that precipitated a move into their first occupation working with vulnerable children and young people; and (2) to analyse the main narrative resources that informants employed in explaining how they developed a commitment to care in general. It thereby suggests how workers are dr...
Source: Childhood - August 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Brannen, J., Mooney, A., Statham, J. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Between Consumerism and Protectionism: Attitudes towards children, consumption and the media in EstoniaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study measures attitudes towards children’s vulnerability or empowerment within consumer culture, based on data from a representative population survey (N = 1475) conducted in Estonia in 2005. The study use indices comprised of assessments of consumption practices and assertions pertaining to the ‘endangered vs empowered child’ debate in consumer and media studies. The results of the analysis show that consumerism and brand valuation are more strongly predicted by age and income and opinions about children’s vulnerability to advertising are mostly influenced by education and gender. Attitudes o...
Source: Childhood - August 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Keller, M., Kalmus, V. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Hearing Out Children's Narrative Pathways To Adulthood: Young people as interpreters of their own childhoods in diverging working-class Scottish communitiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article reports the findings from continued contact with participants of an ethnographic participatory research project. Longitudinal interviews emphasize the lasting influence of their experience of adults in primary school and the resulting constructions of learning relationships. Their perceptions of authority, discipline, violence and justice are portrayed as pivotal in these young people’s transitions to more mature identities. In the cluster of narratives the research discussion elicits, these themes interweave. The article demonstrates that understanding the significance and meaning of children’s pe...
Source: Childhood - August 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Cross, B. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Semantic Provisioning of Children's Food: Commerce, care and maternal practiceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Drawing upon in-depth interviews with mothers in the US about feeding their young children, this article examines how consumer culture — broadly construed — constitutes part of the indispensable context of mothering practices. The argument put forward is that mothers not only provide food and sustenance for their children, but necessarily encounter, engage with and make use of commercial meanings of foodstuffs as part and parcel of the caring work they accomplish while providing food and meals. The concept of ‘semantic provisioning’ is meant to capture the meaning-making labor of mothers as it arise...
Source: Childhood - August 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Cook, D. T. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Children's Participation in Decision-Making in the Philippines: Understanding the attitudes of policy-makers and service providersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article explores the ideas about children’s participation in decision-making held by government officials and non-government representatives engaged in promoting children’s participation in the Philippines. It suggests that the ideas that policy-makers and service deliverers hold about children’s participation are heterogeneous, diverse and complex. While adults’ attitudes are often presented as serious barriers to children’s participation, this study suggests that they are both obstructive and facilitative. A deeper understanding of the range of ideas held by adults, particularly policy-...
Source: Childhood - August 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Bessell, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Editorial: The global financial crisis and children's happiness: a time for re-visioning?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Childhood - August 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Morrow, V. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

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Source: Childhood - August 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Nieuwenhuys, O. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Book Review: Hungerland, B., Liebel, M., Milne, B. and Wihstutz, A. (eds) (2007) Working to Be Someone: Child Focused Research and Practice with Working Children. London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley. (268 pp.) ISBN 9781843105237Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Childhood - May 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Florencia Amigo, M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Book Review: Howell, Signe (2006) The Kinning of Foreigners: Transnational Adoption in a Global Perspective. New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books. (255 pp.). ISBN 1845451848Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Childhood - May 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Wang, L. K. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Standardized Individual Therapy: a Contradiction in Terms?: Professional principles and social practices in Danish residential careEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article explores a paradox that was identified during an ethnographic study of two Danish therapeutic residential institutions for children with emotional and behavioural problems. The key objective of these institutions is to provide specialized treatment for the individual child. However, the task of organizing everyday life for a group of troubled children is so demanding that little room is left for individualization. In practice, treatment takes the shape of a rather standardized package. Analysing individual treatment as a powerful kind of `institutional thinking', the authors delve into the meaning of an appare...
Source: Childhood - May 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Egelund, T., Bocker Jakobsen, T. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Welsh Children's Views On Government and ParticipationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Qualitative research from Wales sought to explore aspects of children's views on government and participation. The research project was conducted in 2001 with 105 children aged 8—11 from a diverse sample of schools across Wales. The article first reports the children's perspectives on different levels (and places) of government: the UK parliament and the Welsh Assembly. Second, there is discussion of how the children see government as affecting their lives. The third section of the article presents the children's views on the extent to which they should have a say in local and national political decisions, the exampl...
Source: Childhood - May 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Drakeford, M., Scourfield, J., Holland, S., Davies, A. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

The 2003 War in Iraq: An ecological analysis of American and Northern Irish children's perceptionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This research incorporated an ecological approach to examine American and Northern Irish children's understanding of the 2003 war in Iraq and the sources of information from which they acquired that understanding. Responses to interviews indicated that the children from the two countries had some common conceptions of and sources of information about the war. However, American and Northern Irish children also differed on several items, suggesting that the macrosystem (e.g. sociopolitical context) plays an important role in children's conceptions of the war. Additionally, the exosystem (media) also played an integral role, ...
Source: Childhood - May 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Blankemeyer, M., Walker, K., Svitak, E. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Building Groups and Independence: The role of food in the lives of young people in Danish sports centresEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article, based on an ethnographic study, examines the role of food in the social interaction of 11- to 17-year-old youths in sports centres in Denmark. The sports centres serve as a free space where young people receive no adult supervision. This is underlined by their understanding and use of food in this environment. Food serves as a medium that introduces occasions for getting together. The article analyses the social significance and symbolic meaning of food in children's and adolescents' peer culture. As everywhere in social life, rules of food choice and eating signal the meaning of social relations and social c...
Source: Childhood - May 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Sylow, M., Holm, L. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Pageant Princesses and Math Whizzes: Understanding children's activities as a form of children's workEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Organized children's activities qualify as children's work, in much the same way that school work does. Both produce transferable use value and create capital that contributes to the future production of goods and services. To illustrate this argument, this article draws on qualitative research primarily based on interviews with the parents of participants in two activities: child beauty pageants and academic enrichment classes. Despite considerable differences in the backgrounds of children who participate in these two types of activities, their parents converge in the reasons they give for enrolling their young children ...
Source: Childhood - May 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Levey, H. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Social Actors and Victims of Exploitation: Working children in the cash economy of Ethiopia's SouthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article explores the role of children in household livelihoods among the Gedeo ethnic community in Ethiopia. Three themes are discussed — reproductive activities, entrepreneurial work in marketplaces and sociospatial mobility — in the context of recent theoretical debates over children's agency and social competence. With shifts in rural livelihoods, children have developed new agentic and entrepreneurial skills in domestic work, trade and migration. This agency is negotiated in everyday life, but it is also structurally highly circumscribed. Situating children's work within post-rural economic development...
Source: Childhood - May 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Abebe, T., Kjorholt, A. T. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Between Intimacy and Intolerance: Greek Cypriot children's encounters with Asian domestic workersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article explores how Greek Cypriot elementary school children construct their identities in relation to Sri Lankan and Filipino women who come to Cyprus as domestic workers. The article focuses primarily on the views of children whose families employ these women; however, the views of children whose families do not employ domestic workers are also explored to illustrate how these women are popularly constructed in children's imaginations and in the absence of direct daily interaction with them. The study reveals that children access different cultural discourses and construct identities that are often ambivalent and c...
Source: Childhood - May 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Spyrou, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Editorial: Is there an Indian childhood?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Childhood - May 18, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Nieuwenhuys, O. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Book Review: Fingerson, L. (2006) Girls in Power: Gender, Body and Menstruation in Adolescence. Albany: State University of New York Press. (190 pp.). ISBN 0791468992. Pascoe, C.J. (2007) Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School. Berkeley: University of California Press. (227 pp.). ISBN 9780520252306Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Childhood - February 9, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: McNamee, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Children's Participation Rights in ResearchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article explores children's participation in research, from the perspectives of researchers who have conducted research with children. Researchers' reports, gained using an email interviewing method, suggest that children's participation rights are particularly compromised when the potential child participants are considered vulnerable and the topic of the research is regarded as sensitive. Such perceptions result in stringent gatekeeping procedures that prevent some children from participating in research. This article concludes that children should be viewed, not as vulnerable passive victims, but as social actors w...
Source: Childhood - February 9, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Powell, M. A., Smith, A. B. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Parent Participation At School: A research study on the perspectives of childrenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article argues that children should be approached as fully-fledged, active participants in their parents' participation process and that it is necessary to take account of the specific perspectives of children on this topic. (Source: Childhood)
Source: Childhood - February 9, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Vyverman, V., Vettenburg, N. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Presentation and Representation: Youth participation in ongoing public decision-making projectsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article draws on material from a case study of a group of young people involved in ongoing public decision-making in a local authority. The group of young people is compared to a political interest group and insights from the literature applied. It is argued that two of the strongest resources the group had to offer adult decision-makers were their ability to speak on behalf of other young people and to do this in acceptable ways. Looking in more depth at these two resources, it can be seen that both were actively constructed and contested by the adults and young people over time. Both resources can be seen as holding...
Source: Childhood - February 9, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Faulkner, K. M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Child Poverty in Portugal: Dimensions and dynamicsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study of child poverty presents a portrait of child poverty in Portugal, and offers important indicators for social policy design. (Source: Childhood)
Source: Childhood - February 9, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Bastos, A., Nunes, F. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

`Barter', `Deals', `Bribes' and `Threats': Exploring sibling interactionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article investigates forms of strategic interaction between siblings during childhood. The authors argue that these interactions, characterized by notions of reciprocity, equivalence and constructions of fairness, are worked out in relation to responsibility, power, knowledge and sibling status. Birth order and age are not experienced as fixed hierarchies as they can be subverted, contested, resisted and negotiated. To explore these issues, in-depth individual and group interviews were conducted with a sample of 90 children between the ages of 5 and 17, drawn from 30 families of mixed socioeconomic backgrounds in cent...
Source: Childhood - February 9, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: McIntosh, I., Punch, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

`I'm Just Me!': Children talking beyond ethnic and religious identitiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study is intended to expand knowledge of children's lives and experiences and would be useful for both teachers and other professionals working with children. (Source: Childhood)
Source: Childhood - February 9, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Moinian, F. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Freedom, Revolt and `Citizenship': Three pillars of identity for youngsters living on the streets of Rio de JaneiroEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article investigates the experiences, identities and aspirations of children and adolescents living on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, formed as they are around the conditions of exclusion, violence and discrimination. Significant here are experiences of revolta — revolt or rage — the aspiration for freedom through life on the street and the desire to be considered a citizen, like everyone else. The complexity of these experiences and aspirations in a society that continues to discriminate and curtail possibilities for social mobility are outlined. (Source: Childhood)
Source: Childhood - February 9, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Butler, U. M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Editorial: When a child is not a child, and other conceptual hazards of childhood studiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Childhood - February 9, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Cook, D. T. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

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Source: Childhood - December 12, 2008 Category: Child Development Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Book Review: Behera, Deepak Kumar (ed.) Childhoods in South Asia. Delhi: Pearson Education 2007. (356 pp.). ISBN 8131704157Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Childhood - December 12, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Balagopalan, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Book Review: Cheney, K.E. (2007) Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press. (299 pp.). ISBN 0226102483Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Childhood - December 12, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Guest, A. M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Book Review: Baraldi, Claudio (ed.) (2006) Education and Intercultural Narratives in Multicultural Classrooms. Rome: Offizina Edizioni. (204 pp.) ISBN 8860190146Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Childhood - December 12, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Devine, D. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Physical Restraint in Residential Childcare: The experiences of young people and residential workersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article presents the findings of a qualitative study that explores the experiences of children, young people and residential workers of physical restraint. The research identifies the dilemmas and ambiguities for both staff and young people, and participants discuss the situations where they feel physical restraint is appropriate as well as their concerns about unjustified or painful restraints. They describe the negative emotions involved in restraint but also those situations where, through positive relationships and trust, restraint can help young people through unsafe situations. (Source: Childhood)
Source: Childhood - December 12, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Steckley, L., Kendrick, A. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Learning or earning in the `smart state': Changing tactics for governing early childhoodEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article presents an analysis of how the discursive regimes of advanced liberalism, knowledge economies and lifelong learning have produced the conditions of possibility for the new preparatory year in Queensland's government schools. This analysis investigates what new tactics, strategies and practices this year of preparatory schooling enables. The emphasis on advanced liberal knowledge economies, and the changing political rationalities these economies produce, reveals new ways of thinking about workers and selves. Within these shifts, the author suggests that for early childhood education, the shape of the adult-to...
Source: Childhood - December 12, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Ailwood, J. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

`Cry and you cry alone': Timeout in early childhood settingsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article explores isolation in early childhood education settings in the context of historical and current theories of punishment. The authors conclude that although isolation was reinterpreted in the 20th century in relation to changing theories of learning, teaching and child development, its earlier meanings have endured. (Source: Childhood)
Source: Childhood - December 12, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Prochner, L., Hwang, Y. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Methodological Immaturity in Childhood Research?: Thinking through `participatory methods'Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article attempts to rethink such techniques in several ways. The authors argue that participatory approaches, in their insistence that children should take part in research, may in fact involve children in processes that aim to regulate them. Using examples drawn from their own work, the authors question whether participatory methods are necessary for children to exercise agency in research encounters. They conclude by suggesting that researchers working with children might benefit from an attitude of methodological immaturity. (Source: Childhood)
Source: Childhood - December 12, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Gallacher, L.-A., Gallagher, M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Conformity and Resistance in Self-Management Strategies of `Good Girls'Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article examines how girls manage challenging encounters with non-familial adults. Drawing on a subset of qualitative data collected as part of a larger ethnographic study, it examines the ways girls maintain a strong sense of self as a good person in the face of interpersonal challenge from these non-familial adults. The discourse of the `good girl' allows them to resist excessive demands of adults and provides opportunities to have fun. The importance of the parent—child relationship in terms of providing a safe context from which the girls can generate the good and bad girl facades is also highlighted. (Source: Childhood)
Source: Childhood - December 12, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Sanders, J., Munford, R. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Challenging Childhoods: Young people's accounts of `getting by' in families with substance use problemsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article reports on a qualitative study with young people who grew up in such families, exploring their accounts of their daily lives at home, school and leisure. The study focuses on the everyday interactions, practices and processes the young people felt helped them to `get by' in their challenging childhoods, showing how the protective factors thought to promote `resilience' were seldom in place for them unconditionally and without associated costs. (Source: Childhood)
Source: Childhood - December 12, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Backett-Milburn, K., Wilson, S., Bancroft, A., Cunningham-Burley, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals