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Children these days /
What is it like to be a child growing up in Britain these days? Is it a happy time, or is there too much to worry about? What are the best and worst aspects of being a child today? Children these days draws on the accounts of over two thousand children, and five hundred adults, to examine the presen...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; CHILDREN THESE DAYS; Contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; ONE
- Perceptions of childhood; Constructing childhood; Distinctions between childhood and adulthood; Images of childhood; The rest of the book; TWO
- Collecting the evidence; The school survey; The school survey; Untitled; THREE
- What's it like being a child?; Happy childhoods?; Worries and concerns; The best and worst things about being a child or young person; Summary; FOUR
- Growing up, becoming an 'adult'; Physical and biological maturity; In the eyes of the law; The notion of 'competence' or 'capacity'
- At what age?Do children grow up too quickly?; Making decisions; Summary; FIVE
- Influences, controls and protection; Models of child development; Families, friends and the media; Adults' views on young people's behaviour; Discipline and punishment; A dangerous environment?; So, are parents over-protective?; Have things changed?; Summary; SIX
- Status and respect; The meaning of parenthood; Children's views on their parents; Is respect mutual?; Taking children's and young people's views into account; Adults' tolerance of young people's clothes and hairstyles; Summary.
- SEVEN
- Getting along togetherA context of unease; Patterns of contact between adults, children and young people; Spending time together; The quality of relationships; Do older and younger generations talk to each other?; Do older and younger generations listen to each other?; Adults' attitudes to their own and other people's children; Summary; EIGHT
- A child-friendly society?; Changes in both directions; Are adults friendly and welcoming?; Are children made welcome in public places?; Children in neighbourhoods; Growing up in England; Adults' views on whether England is child friendly.
- Young people's portrayal in the mediaDo adults really prefer their pets?; Summary; NINE
- Making things better for children and adults; The school survey and young people's concerns; Adults' priorities; Making lives easier and happier; Summary; TEN
- Findings and messages; Children want to be children; Growing up and growing independence; Protection and freedom; Behaviour and its control; The public presentation of childhood; A question of 'respect'; The generation game; Children are not all the same; England could be more child friendly; Meeting the challenges; References; Index.