This book investigates how constructed representations of the child have and continue to restrict children's opportunities to engage in moral discourses, and the implications this has on children's everyday experiences.
This book examines informal modes of learning in Greece from in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, set against the backdrop of Greek nationalist interests and agendas.
The first public orphanage in America, the Charleston Orphan House saw to the welfare and education of thousands of children from poor white families in the urban South.
The fundamental liberty of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children and handle their care, custody and management has been an enduring American tradition.
Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam chronicles and analyzes the most significant change for families in Vietnam's recent past - the transition to a market economy, referred to as Doi Moi in Vietnamese and generally translated as the "e;renovation"e;.
How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class familiesThe struggle to pay for college is a defining feature of middle-class life in America.
Largely concerned with Family Politics and Deception in northern North America and West-Central Africa, this book is intended mostly to provoke and enlighten.
Issues of gender, marriage and family are at the heart of the main cultural wars of our time and have led to a number of legal and societal reforms in many African countries.
Este es un libro que te invita a salir de la zona de confort, a incorporar herramientas que te ayuden a decidir lo que querés para vos y encontrar la energía para lograrlo.
Este libro constituye el punto de llegada de un largo proceso de indagación situado en una pequeña localidad de la provincia argentina de Entre Ríos: Pueblo Liebig.
Buenos amigos entre sí, los autores del presente volumen decidieron este encuentro cordial y afectuoso en un diálogo escrito que también es confrontación de ideas, acuerdos y desacuerdos sobre el hombre y la mujer, sus diferencias y semejanzas, el sexo, los roles, los cambios de los últimos tiempos, la pareja y su futuro.
Este libro expone los aportes de la Terapia Vincular-Familiar, desarrolla su marco teórico y el de las principales herramientas terapéuticas que la componen.
Desde una clara perspectiva contemporánea y de Derechos Humanos, este libro desafiante e innovador ofrece, por primera vez, una metodología especializada y exhaustiva para el abordaje de las adopciones: el modelo psicojurídico de los procesos adoptivos.
En este libro se comparten variadas experiencias sobre la enseñanza de los conocimientos espaciales y geométricos, particularmente aquellos relacionados con los cuerpos geométricos.
Esta obra describe la implementación de la perspectiva Montessori demostrando que la utopía es posible aun en un ámbito de pobreza, y que se puede trabajar en equipo con los recursos más limitados.
First Published in 1954, Prosperity and Parenthood is a study of Victorian middle-class ideas about the standard of living, marriage, and the responsibilities of family life.
This book discusses the popularity of temporary and child marriages in Iran and Afghanistan and explores their historical background and the reasons why they still persist today.
This book explores the identities, embodied experiences, and personal relationships of young people experiencing homelessness, and analyses these in relation to the material and symbolic position that youth homelessness occupies in modern societies.
This book presents a sociological account on marital dissolution that engages and extends theorisations on individualisation and the contemporary organisation of personal relationships to discuss how the experience of divorce might not be all debilitating but on the contrary, could provide opportunities for productivity, self-responsibility and relationship formation.
This volume offers a critical rethinking of the construct of youth wellbeing, stepping back from taken-for-granted and psychologically inflected understandings.
This book provides insightful sociological analyses of Japanese demography and families, paying attention not only to national average data, but also to regional variations and community level analyses.
The volume provides an overview of recent research (within geography and allied disciplines) around the overarching concept of 'safe and accessible places of encounter'.
This volume incorporates ground-breaking new academic perspectives on the contributions that children and young people make to societies around the world, with a particular focus on learning and work.
This volume brings together a range of contributions exploring the diverse ways in which children and young people experience movements, im/mobilities and journeys at different geographical scales and in different socio-spatial contexts.
This volume presents the innovative methodologies, tools and techniques, as well as the challenges and ethical complexities of doing geographies of young people.
This book provides an insightful sociological study of the declining Japanese population, using statistical analysis to establish the significance of municipal power using demographic data on national, regional, prefectural and municipal levels.
