Learning from the children : childhood, culture and identity in a changing world /
Imprint: | New York : Berghahn Books, 2012. |
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Description: | xii, 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | New directions in anthropology ; v. 35 New directions in anthropology ; v. 35. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8860816 |
Summary: | 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. |
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Physical Description: | xii, 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780857453259 (hardback : alk. paper) 0857453254 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780857453266 (ebook) 0857453262 (ebook) |