
Four years Old in an Urban Community
John and Elizabeth Newson investigate the upbringing of seven hundred Nottingham children as they reach the age of four. Parents are interviewed in their homes with a realistic yet human approach and the minimum of technical jargon, and the open-ended questions allow them to produce ''a detailed and descriptive study of how parents do in fact treat their children and - equally important - how chil...
John and Elizabeth Newson investigate the upbringing of seven hundred Nottingham children as they reach the age of four. Parents are interviewed in their homes with a realistic yet human approach and the minimum of technical jargon, and the open-ended questions allow them to produce ''a detailed and descriptive study of how parents do in fact treat their children and - equally important - how chil...