Translating Childhoods
Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture
The Nurture of Nature
Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55
This book explores how antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity shaped the history of summer camps.
Uprooted
The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917
Some 80,000 British children - many of them under the age of ten - were shipped from Britain to Canada in the 50 years following Confederation in 1867. How did this come about?
Designing Modern Childhoods
History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children
Growing Girls
The Natural Origins of Girls' Organizations in America
Susan A. Miller explores these girls' organizations that sprung up in the first half of the twentieth century from a socio-historical perspective, showing how the notions of uniform identity, civic duty, "primitive domesticity," and fitness shaped the formation of the modern girl.
People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia
Contributors contemplate the evolution of child protection policy and practice in BC, addressing political influences on structural arrangements, cultural traditions of First Nations clients, and establishing community control over services.
Protecting Aboriginal Children
This is the first book to document emerging practice in Aboriginal communities and describe child protection practice simultaneously from the point of view of the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal social worker.
Armies of the Young
Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism
Rethinking Childhood
In Rethinking Childhood, twenty contributors, coming from the disciplines of anthropology, government, law, psychology, education, religion, philosophy, and sociology, provide a multidisciplinary view of childhood by listening and understanding the ways children shape their own futures. Topics include education, poverty, family life, divorce, neighborhood life, sports, the internet, and legal status.
At Play in Belfast
Children's Folklore and Identities in Northern Ireland
Peer Power
Preadolescent Culture and Identity
American Childhood
Risks and Realities
Professional Child and Youth Care, Second Edition
The book covers a spectrum of key concerns within the field of child and youth care in Canada, and presents an analysis that spans a variety of program areas.