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Book Synopsis Families Around the World by : Margriet Ruurs
Download or read book Families Around the World written by Margriet Ruurs and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This colorful cross section of families introduces readers to fourteen real children from around the world and the people they love the most, from Sanne in the Netherlands, who has two moms; to Gilad, whose parents and siblings live on a kibbutz with other families in Israel; to Ji Eun in South Korea, whose parents both work outside the home. An engaging book about different cultures and what they share: the importance of family, and the familiar ways people care for one another.
Download or read book Families written by Uwe Ommer and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portraits and profiles of children and their family life around the world.
Book Synopsis Strong Families Around the World by : John DeFrain
Download or read book Strong Families Around the World written by John DeFrain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strengths of families from culture to culture, when compared to each other, are remarkably similar and give us common ground around the world upon which to unite and develop mutual understanding. Strengths-Based Research and Perspectives: Strong Families Around the World, provides a conceptual framework for global family strengths, discussing the diverse strengths and challenges that families face regardless of location. This book presents 43 expert authors from 18 countries in all seven major areas in the world who explain what it means to be a family in the context of their country and the challenges their country faces in the world today. Focusing on the latest studies of similarities between strong families of different cultures, Strengths-Based Research and Perspectives: Strong Families Around the World presents a wide variety of disciplines, including family studies, family education, family therapy, modern languages, psychology, social work, sociology, cultural anthropology, and nursing. This insightful text centers on the Family Strengths Perspective, a paradigm that not only recognizes that there are problems in families today, but demonstrates clearly how these can be dealt with successfully. This valuable resource provides case study examples, quotations from literature and cultural mythology, tables, figures, and extensive references to give readers an in-depth understanding of the issues from strengths-based perspectives. Topics in Strengths-Based Research and Perspectives: Strong Families Around the World include: an introduction into the Family Strengths Perspective the International Family Strengths Model the propositions of the Family Strengths Perspective how the Family Strengths Perspective fits with other conceptual frameworks families from a global perspective a conceptual framework for understanding global family strengths and challenges Strengths-Based Research and Perspectives: Strong Families Around the World is useful as a text in marriage and family relationships classes, cross-cultural family patterns classes, strengths-based practitioner training classes, and family therapy and family educator training classes. This valuable resource will also be of great interest to family educators, family therapists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, and religious counselors.
Book Synopsis Families as We are by : Perdita Huston
Download or read book Families as We are written by Perdita Huston and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2001 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initimate interviews with family members capture the changes and challenges facing families worldwide.
Book Synopsis Families in Many Cultures by : Heather Adamson
Download or read book Families in Many Cultures written by Heather Adamson and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Studies.
Book Synopsis Around the World with the Percussion Family! by : Trisha Speed Shaskan
Download or read book Around the World with the Percussion Family! written by Trisha Speed Shaskan and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2011 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to percussion instruments.
Download or read book Material World written by Peter Menzel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photo-journey through the homes and lives of 30 families, revealing culture and economic levels around the world.
Book Synopsis Families in a Global Context by : Charles B. Hennon
Download or read book Families in a Global Context written by Charles B. Hennon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn what trends and factors are influencing families globally How are families the same or different around the world? Families in a Global Context puts the similarities and differences into perspective, presenting an in-depth comparative analysis of family life in 17 countries around the world. Contributors discuss different countries' family life by using a standard framework to review major influences and patterns. The framework allows readers to do comparative reflection across several countries on a variety of daily living elements, including social and economic forces such as urbanization and modernization, changes in gender/courtship/spousal patterns, and war. This book provides an informative illustration of current as well as future trends of family life worldwide. Each chapter in Families in a Global Context describes customary types of family patterns within each country’s social organization and culture. Important social, economic, political, and other trends are explored in detail, and major ethnic, religious, or other subcultures are noted emphasizing marriage and family patterns that differ from the more typical ones. The book is extensively referenced and includes tables to clearly present data. Countries explored in Families in a Global Context include: European countries of Wales, Sweden, Germany, Romania, and Italy African countries of Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Kenya Middle Eastern countries of Turkey and Iran Asian and Oceanian countries of India, China, the Philippines, and Australia Latin American countries of Brazil, Mexico, and Cuba Topics discussed for each country in Families in a Global Context include: demographics mate selection patterns with an emphasis on the dynamics of couple formation marital roles the place and role of children and parenting in families socialization for gender roles differences in education, employment, and other opportunities major stressors affecting families, coping, and adaptation aging and life expectancy issues and much more! Families in a Global Context is an insightful resource for researchers, educators, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students investigating comparative family topics of family life around the world and in cultural context.
Book Synopsis Families Around the World by : Clare Lewis
Download or read book Families Around the World written by Clare Lewis and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the rich diversity of family life around the world. Through simple text and stunning photographs, it introduces children to similarities found in families in different cultures, and honors differences.
Book Synopsis Families in Today's World by : David Cheal
Download or read book Families in Today's World written by David Cheal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international textbook designed as a quick introduction for students from around the world studying sociology of family, this text provides comprehensive coverage of the major topics in the sociology of family life. Written in an easy access style it opens with a chapter on defining family and family structures. It then moves on to discuss over a dozen major topics; from interaction and meaning in families to sexuality. David Cheal provides coverage of these topics by drawing on a variety of international material. Most of the studies focus on contemporary family life but Cheal also presents information on historical changes which have shaped family life as it is known today. This book an incredibly valuable teaching tool as it presents diversity in family patterns through thinking about family life from a global perspective.
Download or read book Up! written by Susan Hughes and published by Owlkids. This book was released on 2017 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world, little ones are carried in many different ways: in slings, on shoulders, in backpacks, on hips, in baskets, and in loving arms. Up!depicts ten places around the world, from Afghanistan to northern Canada, Peru to West Africa. In each place, a mom, dad, grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin, or sibling lovingly carries a baby. With various family configurations and settings ranging from a busy outdoor market to a high-rise apartment kitchen, the book wholeheartedly celebrates diversity. Gorgeous cut-paper collage art adds warmth and brightness, and brings the lyrical text to life. Repetition of the phrase "Upsy-daisy" on each spread lends familiarity, and reminds readers that love for a little one is a universal feeling.
Book Synopsis All Kinds of Families! by : Mary Ann Hoberman
Download or read book All Kinds of Families! written by Mary Ann Hoberman and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With irresistible, rollicking rhyme, beloved picture book author Mary Ann Hoberman shows readers that families, large and small, are all around us. From celery stalks to bottle caps, buttons, and rings, the objects we group together form families, just like the ones we are a part of. And, as we grow up, our families grow, too. Mary Ann Hoberman gives readers a sense of belonging in this all-inclusive celebration of families and our role in them.
Book Synopsis Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective by : Bron B Ingoldsby
Download or read book Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective written by Bron B Ingoldsby and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Book Synopsis Families Through Time by : Jeanne Dustman
Download or read book Families Through Time written by Jeanne Dustman and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this charming nonfiction book, beginning readers will learn about the ways families have stayed the same--and changed--over time. With its vivid and charismatic images of families throughout time, helpful text, and a table of contents, glossary, and index, children will be excited to learn about families from the past and will be inspired to compare them to families today.
Book Synopsis Handbook of World Families by : Bert N. Adams
Download or read book Handbook of World Families written by Bert N. Adams and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2004-11-11 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of World Families provides a cross-cultural perspective on the family by examining family life in 25 countries worldwide. The countries included in this volume are organized by six world regions including Africa, Asia/South Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and North America - offering readers the most thorough and balanced cross-cultural examination of world families available. Editors Bert N. Adams and Jan Trost, along with contributions by top family studies experts from around the world, ensure reliable, cutting-edge research and perspectives.
Book Synopsis Families of a New World by : Lynne Haney
Download or read book Families of a New World written by Lynne Haney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Prague to Tennessee to Brazil, it's hard to find a consensus on what constitutes an average family. In today's world, the nuclear family is rarely the standard family structure, if it ever was. Families of a New World brings together an important collection of original works to examine our understanding of family around the world and how that understanding is shaped by state policy. Using examples from both historical and modern countries around the world, essays demonstrate not only how state policies shape what the family should look and act like, but also how governments have appropriated and regulated an approved ideal of the family to further their own agendas.
Download or read book A Family from Iraq written by John King and published by Raintree. This book was released on 1998 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the activities of an extended family living on the outskirts of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, providing brief information about daily life and customs.
