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Children as Social Butterflies
Navigating Belonging in a Diverse Swiss Kindergarten
Rutgers University Press
Children as Social Butterflies offers an analysis of how children negotiate social belonging. Ursina Jaeger followed the children of a kindergarten class in a stigmatized and diverse neighborhood for several years, both inside and outside of school. Along the vivid insights into the children's everyday lives, she examines how social differentiation is learned in diverse societies.
China's Left-Behind Children
Caretaking, Parenting, and Struggles
By Xiaojin Chen
Rutgers University Press
Paying special attention to the seventy million children left behind by internal migrants in rural China, this book investigates the role of parental migration and the left-behind status of their children in shaping family dynamics and the children’s general wellbeing, including school performance, delinquency, resilience, feelings of ambiguous loss, and other psychological problems.
- Copyright year: 2024
Tiakina te Pā Harakeke
Ancestral Knowledge and Tamariki Wellbeing
Edited by Jenny Lee-Morgan and Leonie Pihama
HUIA, HUIA Publishers
- Copyright year: 2023
The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps
Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century
By Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson
Rutgers University Press
The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps explores how ideals considered progressive in the 1940s and 1950s had to be reconfigured to respond to shifts in culture and society as well as to new understanding of race and ethnicity, social class, gender, and sexual identity through a study of the popular Farm & Wilderness camps. To illustrate this change, Emily Abel and Margaret K. Nelson draw on over forty interviews with former campers, archival materials, and their own memories. This book tells a story of progressive ideals, crisis of leadership, childhood challenges, and social adaptation in the quintessential American summer camp.
- Copyright year: 2024
Between Self and Community
Children’s Personhood in a Globalized South Korea
By Junehui Ahn
Rutgers University Press
Between Self and Community investigates the early childhood socialization process in a rapidly changing, globalizing South Korea. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in a South Korean preschool, it examines how both children and teachers interactively navigate, construct, and reconstruct their own multifaceted and sometimes conflicting models of “a good child” amid Korea’s shifting educational and social contexts.
- Copyright year: 2023
Children of the Rainforest
Shaping the Future in Amazonia
Rutgers University Press
Children of the Rainforest explores the lives of Matses children growing up in a time of radical change in Amazonia. Using visual and participatory methods, the book explores ethnographically how children’s imaginations, play, and shifting desires are powerful catalysts of social change, which shape the future of their society and of Amazonia at large.
- Copyright year: 2023
Children of the Rainforest
Shaping the Future in Amazonia
Rutgers University Press
Children of the Rainforest explores the lives of Matses children growing up in a time of radical change in Amazonia. Using visual and participatory methods, the book explores ethnographically how children’s imaginations, play, and shifting desires are powerful catalysts of social change, which shape the future of their society and of Amazonia at large.
- Copyright year: 2023
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on Pedagogical Playgrounds
Concordia University Press
- Copyright year: 2022
When Are You Coming Home?
How Young Children Cope When Parents Go to Jail
Rutgers University Press
When Are You Coming Home? answers questions about how young children cope when parents go to jail. Told through the real stories of children, caregivers, and parents navigating parental incarceration, this book delves into the nuances that comprise children’s well-being and family relationships. In doing so, it calls out contextual vulnerabilities while emphasizing resilience processes that shape how children make sense of being separated from parents and await their likely reunification.
- Copyright year: 2023
Into the Jungle!
A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II
By Jimmy Kugler; Edited by Michael Kugler
University Press of Mississippi
An exploration of the experiences of war through the comics of an American youth
Boy and Girl Tramps of America
By Thomas Minehan; Introduction by Susan Honeyman
University Press of Mississippi
A thorough and honest picture of Depression-era young people forced to ride the rails
Global Child
Children and Families Affected by War, Displacement, and Migration
Rutgers University Press
Global Child highlights the unique features of participatory, arts-based, and socio-ecological approaches to studying war-affected children and families, demonstrating the collective strength as well as the limitations and the ethical implications of such research. Building on work across the Global South and the Global North, this book aims to deepen an understanding of this tri-pillared approach, and the potential for this methodology to contribute to improved practices in working with war-affected children and their families.
- Copyright year: 2023
A World of Many
Ontology and Child Development among the Maya of Southern Mexico
By Norbert Ross
Rutgers University Press
A World of Many explores the world-making efforts of Tzotzil Maya children from two different localities within the municipality of Chenalhó, Chiapas. It shows that as they create their worlds, children create themselves as distinct human beings, being differently in their world.
- Copyright year: 2023
Small Bites
Biocultural Dimensions of Children's Food and Nutrition
By Tina Moffat
UBC Press
Small Bites travels the globe to show how biology and culture influence how children eat, and how child nutrition can be made more equitable and sustainable.
- Copyright year: 2022
What the Children Said
Child Lore of South Louisiana
University Press of Mississippi
A deep exploration of children's play and its impact on learning race, history, and sexuality
Vicious Infants
Dangerous Childhoods in Antebellum U.S. Literature
University of Massachusetts Press
- Copyright year: 2021
Revolutions at Home
The Origin of Modern Childhood and the German Middle Class
University of Massachusetts Press
- Copyright year: 2021
Playing with History
American Identities and Children’s Consumer Culture
By Molly Rosner
Rutgers University Press
Examining cultural products geared towards teaching children American cultural identity, Playing With History highlights the changes and constancies in depictions of American identity since the advent of modern consumer society. The book examines political and ideological messages sold to children throughout the twentieth century through toys, dolls, books, and amusement parks.
- Copyright year: 2021
Life in a Cambodian Orphanage
A Childhood Journey for New Opportunities
Rutgers University Press
Combining detailed observations of children's daily life in a Cambodian orphanage with follow-up interviews of the same children after they have grown and left, this book shows how orphanages can be configured to meet children's developmental needs, providing evidence that they are not always bleak sites of deprivation and despair.
- Copyright year: 2021
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