Age groups and generations

The importance of high quality early childhood education is now universally recognised, and this quality crucially depends upon the practitioners who work with our young children, and their deep understanding of how children develop and learn.

In Bureaucratic Manoeuvres, John Grundy examines profound transformations in the governance of unemployment in Canada.

This book contests the idea that lesbian and gay categories are disappearing, and that sexuality is becoming fluid, by showing how young people use them in a world in which heterosexuality is privileged.

In diesem Buch zum Thema Lebensqualität im Alter wird ein inter- und trans-disziplinärer Ansatz gewählt, um neue Einsichten zu vermitteln.

Systematische Menschenrechtsverletzungen an Kindern und Jugendlichen standen bis in jüngerer Zeit auf der Tagesordnung in Heimen des Staates, der Länder und katholischer Orden in ganz Österreich.

In the light of the complex demographic shifts associated with late modernity and the impetus of neo-liberal politics, childhood continues all the more to operate as a repository for the articulation of diverse social and cultural anxieties.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with 15-22 year old straight and gay male athletes in both the United States and the United Kingdom, this book explores how jocks have redefined heterosexuality, and no longer fear being thought gay for behaviors that constrained men of the previous generation.

The Neuroscience of Cocaine: Mechanisms and Treatment explores the complex effects of this drug, addressing the neurobiology behind cocaine use and the psychosocial and behavioral factors that impact cocaine use and abuse.

These volumes offer an in-depth analysis of youth sexualities as they shape and are shaped by public feelings and by American social, cultural, and political contexts.

Whether you're planning for or already living in retirement, there's a lot that goes into making the most of every day.

In Exiled Home, Susan Bibler Coutin recounts the experiences of Salvadoran children who migrated with their families to the United States during the 1980-1992 civil war.

From Cameron Diaz, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Body Book, comes a fresh, personal, and authoritative examination of the art and science of growing older and a roadmap for abundant health and resilience as we age.

Die vielfältigen Problemlagen der großen Anzahl von Jugendlichen, die außerhalb ihrer Herkunftsfamilie in Wohngruppen leben, erfordern ein pädagogisches Betreuungskonzept, das fachlich fundiert und menschlich zugewandt den jungen Menschen ein Zuhause auf Zeit bietet.

This book brings together a collection of critical essays that challenge the existing dogma of leisure as an unmitigated social good, in order to examine the commodification and marketisation of leisure across a number of key sites.

Childhood is a socially constructed state that can differ significantly from culture to culture and period to period.

This book offers an original empirical study into the gendered and sexual experiences of Iranian Muslim women going through menopause.

This book provides an overview of the dominant philosophical approaches and practices in handling status offenders--those children who habitually resist the control of their parents and schools, who run away from home, who drink and stay out after curfew.

The concept of a single condition known as 'autism' is quickly becoming outdated, and is now understood to be an umbrella term for a variety of predominantly genetic conditions.

In this thought-provoking text, a collection of respected authors with a wealth of academic and practice experience come together to challenge some of the prevailing ideas serving as the foundation for the current child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) structure.

Drawing on current scholarship and research by authors with experience of a range of International contexts who are experts in their field, this accessible guide focuses on approaches that encourage spiritual, physical, mental and emotional development in children.

Scholars from a range of different disciplines explore how best to implement children''s rights.

The politics of old age in the twenty first century is contentious, encompassing ideological debates about the rights and welfare entitlements of individuals in later life.

In order to achieve the best outcomes for all children and young people, schools must work in partnership with students, parents, other professionals and the wider community.

Follow nine young people as they move from racially isolated elementary and middle schools to a diverse - yet internally segregated - neighborhood high school.

Based on extensive clinical research, this book sheds new light onto how Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) can be used with older adults as an effective complementary intervention, identifying specific ways in which MBSR programmes can be adapted and fine-tuned to meet the needs of this group.

Youth and the future What will become of today's young people in Australia, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America?

The needs for and the benefits of holistic health care--care that extends to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of individuals--have been well known for 2,500 years or so.

An up-to-date, theoretically informed study of male, in-group, street-aligned, youth language practice in various urban centres in Africa.

Globalization defines our era.

This book explores and expounds upon questions of paradox and contradiction in theology with an emphasis on recent contributions from analytic philosophical theology.

Flynn contributes to the emerging field of childhood studies in the Hebrew Bible by isolating stages of a child's life, and through a comparative perspective, studies the place of children in the domestic cult and their relationship to the deity in that cult.

This landmark resource investigates and documents current and predicted trends regarding the experiences of grandparents in the United States and abroad.

What 'kind' of community is demanded by a problem like dementia?

While categorization has always been one of the primary focuses of the social sciences, recent trends within these disciplines have tended to categorize various behaviours as disorders.

Not since the 1960s have the activities of resistance among lower- and working-class youth caused such anxiety in the international community.

This book sheds critical light on the routinely debated issue of how to create sustainable, equitable and meaningful partnerships between visual art organisations and youth organisations.

Educating students with disabilities is a team process.

The first comprehensive look at the global dilemma of child migrationWhy, despite massive public concern, is child trafficking on the rise?

This book is designed to foster quality care to home care recipients.

In this vivid ethnography, Jessaca B.

How do young people participate in democratic societies?

This book focuses on the concept of subjective views of aging.

The story of fatherlessness is being written into the heart of this generation.

In the 1950s and 1960s, images of children appeared everywhere, from movies to milk cartons, their smiling faces used to sell everything, including war.

Der wissenschaftliche Fortschritt ist unaufhaltsam.

Across the metropole, the colonies, and the wider eighteenth-century world, French children and youth participated in a diverse set of state-building initiatives, social reform programs, and imperial expansion efforts.

Explores how global youth push the boundaries of standard language and exploit the potential of their multilingual repertoires online.