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As social scientists, we are called to investigate society. A powerful component of understanding society can be found when researching the lives of children and youth. This volume provides a glimpse into these lives.
This volume critically examines the multiple and contested meanings of ideal citizenship and reveal how children and youth craft active citizenship as they encounter and respond to the various institutions and organizations designed to encourage their civic and political development.
This volume seeks to directly address the problems and pitfalls that often accompany researching children and youth in today’s society. This volume addresses participatory and feminist ethnographic approaches, digital mining, children’s agency, and navigating IRBs. Themes of space, location, and identity run throughout this volume.
This book presents a novel study of children's compulsory productive educational labour in modern and modernizing societies under globalization, and the implications for such matters as children's everyday lives, relationships and rights, international legal instruments, relevant analytical notions (including 'slavery'), and sociological analysis.
Doris Bühler-Niederberger, Johanna Mierendorff, Andreas Lange Debatten um soziale Problemlagen konzentrieren sich seit geraumer Zeit v- stärkt auf die nachwachsende Generation, insbesondere auf Kinder. Neue - mut, Arbeitsmarktentwicklungen und deren Folgen, neue Formen privaten - bens, Wandel der Geschlechterrollen, Migration und kulturelle Vielfalt oder aber die angenommenen sozialen Folgen des demographischen Wandels – alles das wird in seinen Auswirkungen auf Kinder und Kindheit diskutiert, bekommt damit als „Zukunft der Gesellschaft“ eine besondere Dramatik und verlangt Reaktionen. In diesem Prozess politischer und gesellschaftlicher „Reaktion“ geht es zum einen darum, für K...
This volume brings together the most recent and cutting edge research on the understanding of education. It focuses on the lived experience of the students in the context of different educational institutions. In doing so, it unravels layers of inequalities in the understanding of education.
This volume of examines the role of technology in the lives of children and adolescents. Topics addressed include: cyberbullying, video games and aggressive behavior, online gaming and the development of social skills, sexuality, child pornography, virtual communities for children, social networking and peer relations, and other related issues.
Internationally, linguistic diversity is at its highest to date. With increasing numbers of children learning additional languages, it is important to understand the nature of the social relationships that children are experiencing. This volume features the rich, varied and complex aspects of children's friendships in multilingual settings.
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This volume maps the ways that children and young people are considered victims or perpetrators by their societies and consequently the ways that their societies react. The chapters analyse a variety of phenomena in different countries of the Global North and South.