Author: Willem Van Vliet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Children and Young People's Participation and Its Transformative Potential
Author: E.K.M. Tisdall
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137316543
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book explores children and young people's involvement in public action. The contributors consider the potential of children and young people's participation to be transformative.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137316543
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book explores children and young people's involvement in public action. The contributors consider the potential of children and young people's participation to be transformative.
Narrating Childhood with Children and Young People
Author: Lisa Moran
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030556476
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
This volume draws together scholarly contributions from diverse, yet interlinking disciplinary fields, with the aim of critically examining the value of narrative inquiry in understanding the everyday lives of children and young people in diverse spaces and places, including the home, recreational spaces, communities and educational spaces. Incorporating insights from sociology, geography, education, child and youth studies, social care, and social work, the collection emphasises how narrative research approaches present storytelling as a universally recognizable, valuable and effective methodological approach with children and young people. The chapters points to the diversity of spaces and places encountered by children and young people, considers how young people ‘tell tales’ about their lives and highlights the multidimensionality of narrative research in capturing their everyday lived experiences.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030556476
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
This volume draws together scholarly contributions from diverse, yet interlinking disciplinary fields, with the aim of critically examining the value of narrative inquiry in understanding the everyday lives of children and young people in diverse spaces and places, including the home, recreational spaces, communities and educational spaces. Incorporating insights from sociology, geography, education, child and youth studies, social care, and social work, the collection emphasises how narrative research approaches present storytelling as a universally recognizable, valuable and effective methodological approach with children and young people. The chapters points to the diversity of spaces and places encountered by children and young people, considers how young people ‘tell tales’ about their lives and highlights the multidimensionality of narrative research in capturing their everyday lived experiences.
Space, Place and Environment
Author: Karen Nairn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789814585903
Category : Children and youth
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789814585903
Category : Children and youth
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Young People's Environments
Author: Willem Van Vliet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Young People and New Media
Author: Sonia Livingstone
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761964674
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
We can no longer imagine leisure, or the home, without media and communication technologies, and for the most part, we would not want to. Yet as worldwide the television screen in the family home is set to become the site of a multimedia culture integrating telecommunications, broadcasting, computing and video, many questions arise concerning their place in our daily lives. Young People and New Media offers an invaluable up-to-date account of children and young people's changing media environment at the end of the twentieth century. By locating the insights drawn from a major empirical research reported in Young People, New Media within a survey of the burgeoning but fragmented research literature on ne
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761964674
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
We can no longer imagine leisure, or the home, without media and communication technologies, and for the most part, we would not want to. Yet as worldwide the television screen in the family home is set to become the site of a multimedia culture integrating telecommunications, broadcasting, computing and video, many questions arise concerning their place in our daily lives. Young People and New Media offers an invaluable up-to-date account of children and young people's changing media environment at the end of the twentieth century. By locating the insights drawn from a major empirical research reported in Young People, New Media within a survey of the burgeoning but fragmented research literature on ne
Links Between Environment, Health and Play
Playwork
Author: Tina Farrow
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435452162
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This book provides you with all the underpinning knowledge for the S/NVQ in Playwork Level 2. Written by experienced Playwork tutors and assessors who have helped candidates achieve their S/NVQ award, it provides everything students need to support their practical work with children and young people. Full coverage of the 2002 standards.
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435452162
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This book provides you with all the underpinning knowledge for the S/NVQ in Playwork Level 2. Written by experienced Playwork tutors and assessors who have helped candidates achieve their S/NVQ award, it provides everything students need to support their practical work with children and young people. Full coverage of the 2002 standards.
Children's Health and Wellbeing in Urban Environments
Author: Christina R. Ergler
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317167651
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
How children experience, negotiate and connect with or resist their surroundings impacts on their health and wellbeing. In cities, various aspects of the physical and social environment can affect children’s wellbeing. This edited collection brings together different accounts and experiences of children’s health and wellbeing in urban environments from majority and minority world perspectives. Privileging children’s expertise, this timely volume explicitly explores the relationships between health, wellbeing and place. To demonstrate the importance of a place-based understanding of urban children’s health and wellbeing, the authors unpack the meanings of the physical, social and symbolic environments that constrain or enable children’s flourishing in urban environments. Drawing on the expertise of geographers, educationists, anthropologists, psychologists, planners and public health researchers, as well as nurses and social workers, this book, above all, sees children as the experts on their experiences of the issues that affect their wellbeing. Children’s Health and Wellbeing in Urban Environments will be fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in cultural geography, urban geography, environmental geography, children’s health, youth studies or urban planning.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317167651
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
How children experience, negotiate and connect with or resist their surroundings impacts on their health and wellbeing. In cities, various aspects of the physical and social environment can affect children’s wellbeing. This edited collection brings together different accounts and experiences of children’s health and wellbeing in urban environments from majority and minority world perspectives. Privileging children’s expertise, this timely volume explicitly explores the relationships between health, wellbeing and place. To demonstrate the importance of a place-based understanding of urban children’s health and wellbeing, the authors unpack the meanings of the physical, social and symbolic environments that constrain or enable children’s flourishing in urban environments. Drawing on the expertise of geographers, educationists, anthropologists, psychologists, planners and public health researchers, as well as nurses and social workers, this book, above all, sees children as the experts on their experiences of the issues that affect their wellbeing. Children’s Health and Wellbeing in Urban Environments will be fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in cultural geography, urban geography, environmental geography, children’s health, youth studies or urban planning.
Children and Young People's Participation in Decision Making on the Environment, Sustainable Development, and the Countryside
Growing Up Resilient
Author: Tatyana Barankin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780888685049
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Resilience is a much-talked-about topic these days. The view that resilience is an important aspect of mental well-being has been gaining attention among health professionals and researchers. Tatyana Barankin and Nazilla Khanlou draw from the latest research and theoretical developments on resilience in children and youth and present it in a way that is relevant for a diverse audience, including parents, educators, health care providers, daycare workers, coaches, social service providers, policy makers and others. Among the unique contributions of this book is that the authors consider the development of resilience at three levels. Growing Up Resilient explores the individual, family and environmental risk and protective factors that affect young people's resilience: individual factors: temperament, learning strengths, feelings and emotions, self-concept, ways of thinking, adaptive skills, social skills and physical health family factors: attachment, communication, family structure, parent relations, parenting style, sibling relations, parents' health and support outside the family environmental factors: inclusion (gender, culture), social conditions (socio-economic situation, media influences), access (education, health) and involvement. Tips on how to build resilience in children and youth follow each section. The ability for children and youth to bounce back from today's stresses is one of the best life skills they can develop. Growing Up Resilient is a must-read for adults who want to increase resilience in the children and youth in their lives.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780888685049
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Resilience is a much-talked-about topic these days. The view that resilience is an important aspect of mental well-being has been gaining attention among health professionals and researchers. Tatyana Barankin and Nazilla Khanlou draw from the latest research and theoretical developments on resilience in children and youth and present it in a way that is relevant for a diverse audience, including parents, educators, health care providers, daycare workers, coaches, social service providers, policy makers and others. Among the unique contributions of this book is that the authors consider the development of resilience at three levels. Growing Up Resilient explores the individual, family and environmental risk and protective factors that affect young people's resilience: individual factors: temperament, learning strengths, feelings and emotions, self-concept, ways of thinking, adaptive skills, social skills and physical health family factors: attachment, communication, family structure, parent relations, parenting style, sibling relations, parents' health and support outside the family environmental factors: inclusion (gender, culture), social conditions (socio-economic situation, media influences), access (education, health) and involvement. Tips on how to build resilience in children and youth follow each section. The ability for children and youth to bounce back from today's stresses is one of the best life skills they can develop. Growing Up Resilient is a must-read for adults who want to increase resilience in the children and youth in their lives.