This book explores how students in China vary in their understanding of careers upon arrival at college and how these initial differences develop into distinctive career preparation pathways.
This book addresses issues concerning five major categories of disadvantaged children, namely street children, children involved in trafficking, child labor, slum children, and children in institutional care, which apply to a large number of children around the world, including India.
The book approaches the topic of disability, inclusion and inclusive education in a holistic way including both academic and psycho-social perspectives.
This book provides an in-depth understanding of how children's development at different stages of their lives interfaces with the kind of education and support they need at school and home.
This book provides a broad survey of Chinese rural households at a time of rapid change in China s rural economy, examining the dual identity of households as consumers as well as producers of goods in terms of supply and demand.
This book provides a broad survey of Chinese rural households, examining ongoing changes in Chinese society and economy through the lens of the situation of rural families in China.
This collection of papers examines key ideas in cultural-historical approaches to children's learning and development and the cultural and institutional conditions in which they occur.
This book offers a much-needed analysis of how young people understand and navigate their lives as workers, family members and political actors in an era of uncertainty, Brexit and Trump.
This book invites readers to both reassess and reconceptualize definitions of childhood and pedagogy by imagining the possibilities - past, present, and future - provided by the aesthetic turn to science fiction.
Focusing on the two essential factors of the construction of risk, this book presents research revolving around the staging of and the coping with Internet addiction in China.
This book gathers international and interdisciplinary work on youth studies from the Global South, exploring issues such as continuity and change in youth transitions from education to work; contemporary debates on the impact of mobility, marginalization and violence on young lives; how digital technologies shape youth experiences; and how different institutions, cultures and structures generate a diversity of experiences of what it means to be young.
This book brings together Sociologists, Computer Scientists, Applied Scientists and Engineers to explore the design, implementation and evaluation of emerging technologies for older people.
This book investigates how rapid socio-political-economic change in China since 1949 has affected intergenerational relationships and practices in rural areas, specifically the care provided to elderly parents by their adult children.
This interdisciplinary book explores the affective dimensions of becoming a parent, traversing the life-cycle journey of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting.
This text addresses the Philippines' historical and contemporary reproductive politics, offering a timely insight into the rich reproductive lives of Filipinos.
This new book illustrates how Taiwanese lesbians negotiate their lives outside patriarchal families, while seeking varying ways to maintain working relationships with their families of origin, as their notion of family distinguishes them from same sex couples in other countries.
This book considers the changing nature of intimacy in contemporary China, providing a unique case study of romantic subjectivities in young people in the world's fastest growing economy.
This book challenges readers to recognise the conditions that underpin popular approaches to children and young people's participation, as well as the key processes and institutions that have enabled its rise as a global force of social change in new times.
This book is an ethnography of teachers and children in grades 1 and 2, and presents arguments about why we should take gender and childhood sexuality seriously in the early years of South African primary schooling.
This book presents an international research-based framework that has empowered parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to become critical decision makers to actively guide their child's learning and self-advocacy.
This book is a quantitative assessment of the challenges China faces as it tries to achieve the twin goals of mitigating the effects of population aging while containing the overall size of the population.
Contesting stereotypical and deterministic accounts of British South Asian Muslims (BrAsians), which have largely contributed towards the perpetuation of Islamophobia, this book analyses how the influence of parents, extended family, and community support and constrain the lives of a younger generation of amateur and professional boxers.
This book examines connections between policy contexts, school experiences and everyday activities of children growing up in the global city of Singapore.
Pensamientos Ambientales: Ideas libres un tanto razonadas de nuestro entorno", es una muestra clara de diversas visiones y maneras de comprender el entorno, en la cual los autores expresan su pensamiento frente a la compleja realidad ambiental, a veces de una forma lúdica, otras veces irónica, otras mayormente argumentativa, pero en todos los casos invitando al debate, a la reflexión y a la urgente acción y toma de decisiones en pro del ambiente y el sistema natural en general.
Con este tipo de coaching, infantil y juvenil, se trabaja la educación emocional de niños y jóvenes, la cual se ve afectada por múltiples factores, que los padres y madres no siempre son capaces de conducir (dificultades sociales, adaptación, rendimiento escolar, etc.
El texto hace un recorrido por la obra de Freud y de Lacan en cuanto a lo que refiere a la vida amorosa, a las relaciones de pareja, a lo que tanto hombre como mujer buscan en la pareja y da cuenta de como todo va mas alla de lo que simplemente de dice que se busca.
Este libro es una apuesta por comprender la realidad familiar que viven y generan las parejas del mismo sexo en diferentes horizontes de sus cursos de vida.
Este segundo libro conmemorativo de tres décadas de existencia de desarrollo familiar en Colombia, tiene como objetivo reconocer y construir a la apropiación de los significativos aportes realizados por la profesora Dalia Restrepo para sentar las bases de la nueva perspectiva académica disciplinar en el campo de familia u consolidar como una línea de pensamiento crítico, de saber y de acción desde la Universidad de Caldas.
"Esta obra se enmarca en la Ley de Víctimas, Ley 1448 del año 2011, y aborda específicamente los casos en que se presenta oposición de una víctima o de un sujeto vulnerable de especial protección frente a la reclamación de restitución de un predio por una víctima.
Esta obra es resultado de una revisión de los fallos de restitución proferidos desde el último trimestre del 2012 hasta las últimas que fueron publicadas del año 2014, que se hicieron públicos a través de los sitios de internet de la Unidad de Restitución de Tierras y del Consejo Superior de la Judicatura.
Entre las diversas profesiones que se ocupan de la amilia en el mundo, Trabajo Social presenta características que la distinguen y caracterizan su forma de aproximación a este fenómeno.
A partir del "giro cultural", los estudios sobre la familia han abordado problemáticas como: nuevos modos de vínculo y parentesco, otras prácticas de maternidad y crianza, procesos emergentes de socialización y educación de los hijos, arreglos inéditos en torno a la domesticidad y, con menos frecuencia, masculinidades alternativas.
En estos tiempos donde las redes sociales, el Internet, los juegos de video y los demás medios de comunicación vigentes, están a la orden de nuestros hijos desde que nacen, los padres necesitamos identificar y reconocer nuestro poder, que por encima de la cultura, la moda o la tecnología tenemos para influenciar y proyectar a nuestros hijos de acuerdo a lo que es realmente trascendente: Los valores y los principios morales.
