The groundbreaking classic detailing Margaret Mead's first field work at age 23,establishing Meads core insights into childhood and culture that challenged and changed our view of life.
The new memoir from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo - playful, provocative and original, it's her deeply personal take on striving for a life of her own'When it comes to spinning light and shadow on the complexities of living, loving and language, Xiaolu Guo is one of the most valuable writers in the world' DEBORAH LEVYThe world can seem strange and lonely when you step away from your family and everything you have tried to call your own.
Learning to care for a baby monkey and a chameleon, growing giant vegetables, meeting Pygmies in the jungle, finding the source of the Nile that Davidson and Stanley once searched for, sleeping in the open of the Serengeti prairie, and hiking around the rim of a volcano were some of the rare activities that Marilyn Kellum Barr describes that she experienced while living in Burundi, Africa as she attended schools there and in Kenya in the 1960's.
In the making of the modern Nordic states in the first half of the twentieth century, elementary education was paramount in creating a notion of citizenship that was universal and equal for all citizens.
The rise in popularity of South Korean entertainment and culture began and is promoted as an official policy of the Korean government to revive the country's economy.
In the making of the modern Nordic states in the first half of the twentieth century, elementary education was paramount in creating a notion of citizenship that was universal and equal for all citizens.
This book draws on Trevor's experience in both Christian and secular organisations to look at different patterns for leadership and he explains the necessity for every leader to model a clear strategy for their work.
El entrenamiento en habilidades emocionales para jóvenes es una propuesta que pretende ser una guía para fortalecer el proceso de crecimiento de los jóvenes no solo acompañándolos a ellos, sino además acompañando con herramientas específicas a los adultos, quienes tienen la tarea de orientar las búsquedas de estos jóvenes en un contexto actual que es desafiante y está en constante cambio, con realidades cada vez más imprevisibles e incomprensibles.
Educación de la afectividad y sexualidad integral: horizontes y desafíos es un trabajo coral, que aporta saberes interdisciplinarios y experiencias, en torno a la temática, en función de ámbitos comunitarios (salud, educación, pastoral).
Das GlücksschmiedeKIDS-Entdeckerbuch beinhaltet zahlreiche Übungen und Hintergrundinformationen zur Förderung der Widerstandskraft in stürmischen Zeiten, basierend auf dem von der ZPP (Zentrale Prüfstelle für Prävention) zertifizierten Präventionsprogramm "GlücksschmiedeKIDS".
Ethics is the culmination of Dietrich Bonhoeffers theological and personal odyssey and one of the most important works of Christian ethics of the last century.
The purpose of this book is to present unpublished papers at the cutting edge of research on dialetheism and to reflect recent work on the applications of the theory.
This lively and engaging book, set in the historical context of centuries of migration and multilingualism in Berlin, explores the relationship between language and migration.
This volume explores the recent 'adolescent turn' in contemporary Latin American cinema, challenging many of the underlying assumptions about the nature of youth and distinguishing adolescence as a distinct and vital area of study.
This book examines how and why, in the context of International Relations, children's subjecthood has all too often been relegated to marginal terrains and children themselves automatically associated with the need for protection in vulnerable situations: as child soldiers, refugees, and conflated with women, all typically with the accent on the Global South.
This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics.
This book presents the original concept of the 'dispositif of age', combining post-Foucauldian analytics of the dispositif, discourse and governmentality with the historical semantics of Reinhart Koselleck to explore the functions of the notion of youth in the regulation of social life.
This book is the third in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics.
This book addresses gaps in our understanding of processes that underpin the making and circulation of children's screen contents across the Arab region and Europe.