Author: Maestas, Nicole / Gaillot, Sarah Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This report presents results from a multisite, quantitative evaluation of the international Spirituality for Kids (SFK) after-school program. Despite its name, SFK is a nonreligious program that seeks...
Author: Zimmer, Ron / Gill, Brian / Booker, Kevin Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Implementing Standards-Based Accountability (ISBA) study was designed to examine the strategies that states, districts, and schools are using to implement standards-based accountability under the ...
Author: Bourdillon, Michael Publisher: Weaver Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the context of AIDS and a declining economy, one strategy for children to ensure their own livelihood is to engage in domestic employment. Here, Michael Bourdillon presents the findings of research...
Author: Jenks, Chris Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Childhood offers a greater appreciation of the social factors that make up our knowledge of children and childhood. Viewing childhood from a social constsructionist perspective, it gives a critical fr...
Author: Laoire, Caitriona Ni / Carpena-Mendez, Fina / Tyrrell, Naomi Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Challenging dominant adult-centric perspectives on contemporary global migration flows and presenting understandings of the lives of migrant children and young people from their own experiences, this ...
Author: Chisholm, Lynne Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The English language version of proceedings of a bilateral UK/FRG conference held at Philipps Universitaet, Marburg. The theme of this conference was the examination of childhood and youth as life-sta...
Author: Jenks, Chris Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Childhood" offers a greater appreciation of the social factors that make up our knowledge of children and childhood. Viewing childhood from a social constructionist perspective, it gives a critical f...
Description: It is increasingly clear that children and the youth today play a significant role in the labour process in Africa. But, to what extent is this role benign? And when and why does this role become expl...
Author: Ansell, Nicola Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This text considers such issues as education, child labour, street children, child soldiers, refugees, child slaves, the impact of environmental change and hazards on children and how children can be ...
Author: Archard, David Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: David Archard offers the first serious and sustained philosophical examination of both the modern and historical concept of childhood, surveying arguments for and against the rights of children.
Author: Larkin, Ralph W. Publisher: Temple University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: On April 20, 1999, two Colorado teenagers went on a shooting rampage at Columbine High School. That day, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed twelve fellow students and a teacher, as well as wounding ...
Author: Douglas, Kate Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The late 1990s and early 2000s witnessed a surge in the publication and popularity of autobiographical writings about childhood. Linking literary and cultural studies, Contesting Childhood draws on a ...
Author: Molinas Vega, José R. / Barros, Ricardo Paes de Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region is making progress in opening the doors of development to all. But it still has a long way to go. At the current pace, it would take, on average, a gener...
Author: Karoly, Lynn A. / Kilburn, M. Rebecca / Cannon, Jill S. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Considers the potential consequences of not investing additional resources in children??s lives, the range of early intervention programs, the demonstrated benefits of interventions having high-qualit...
Author: Lovegrove, Emily Publisher: Accent Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Dr Emily Lovegrove, an expert on the psychology of bullying, has written this book to help both the children who are being bullied, and their parents. It is based on her research and work with many hu...
Author: Karoly, Lynn A. / Levaux, Hugh P. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: There is increasing evidence that the first few years after birth are particularly important in child development and present opportunities for enrichment but also vulnerabilities do to poverty and ot...
Author: Roberts, Donald F. / Foehr, Ulla G. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book reports the only national, random sample survey of US children and adolescents' use of all of the various media available to them conducted in at least the past 30 years. In addition to prov...
Description: Qatar has recently positioned itself to be a leader in education. Central to the country's efforts is the implementation of reforms to its K-12 education system. Central to the reform initiatives was ...
Author: Stecher, Brian M. / Epstein, Scott / Hamilton, Laura S. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Implementing Standards-Based Accountability (ISBA) study was designed to examine the strategies that states, districts, and schools are using to implement standards-based accountability under the ...
Author: Saunders, Bernadette J. / Goddard, Chris Publisher: Wiley Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Providing a wide spectrum of views, the authors explore the fine line between normalized physical punishment and illegal or unacceptable physical and emotional abuse of children. It builds on the emer...
Author: Karoly, Lynn A. / LaTourrette, Tom / Mosher, David E. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Facing mounting evidence that California has fallen behind on many key indicators of educational performance, policymakers and the public share considerable interest in exploring whether California sh...
Author: Subbarao, Kalanidhi Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: HIV/AIDS is generating a major humanitarian crisis for families in Sub-Saharan Africa. The number of children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS is expected to rise to 35 million by 2010. Rolli...
Author: Beresin, Anna R. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As children wrestle with culture through their games, recess itself has become a battleground for the control of children's time. Based on dozens of interviews and the observation of over a thousand c...
Author: Sher, Julian Publisher: Chicago Review Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Shocking and gritty, this collection contains firsthand accounts of terror and abuse from prostituted children-and the law enforcement officers and community activists working to save them. While deta...
Author: N/A Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Alan Prout discusses the place of children and childhood in late modernity. He argues that as the general social and economic climate has been increasingly dominated by uncertainty, so there appears t...
Author: Saval, Malina Publisher: Basic Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Male teenage cliques have come a long way since the days of the "Breakfast Club" and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," when most adolescents could be lumped together as either Jocks, Druggies, or Nerds....
Author: Ewumbue-Monono, Churchill Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This meticulous and comprehensive documentation of Cameroonian Youth Day Messages and leadership discourse on youth from 1949 - 2009 is a gold mine for researchers, historians and anyone interested in...
Author: Mwiturubani, Donald Anthony / Gebre, Ayalew Publisher: Codesria Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The five research reports that constitute this monograph are a fruit of the collaboration between the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in African (CODESRIA) and the Social Scienc...
Author: N/A Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Explores the social status of children, through consideration of their positioning in a range of social settings and in sociological theory.
Author: Arthur, Raymond Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Family Life and Youth Offending" examines the relationship between the causes of youth offending and the legal duty of the state to address those causes. In his globally relevant new study Arthur pro...
Author: Beresin, Anna R. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: As children wrestle with culture through their games, recess itself has become a battleground for the control of children's time. Based on dozens of interviews and the observation of over a thousand c...
Author: Moldawsky, Ayala Publisher: Contento De Semrik Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In The Little Volcano Inside, young readers can journey with Tal as he discovers the source of his explosive feelings, and comes to understand that he holds the power to control them. In this remarkab...
Author: N/A Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For many children and their families, life is hard, grim and short: the global statistics on children are truly appalling. While problems of childhood poverty are most widespread in developing countri...
