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The Biologising Of Childhood
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Book Synopsis The Biologising of Childhood by : John R. Morss
Download or read book The Biologising of Childhood written by John R. Morss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990, this book looks at the history of developmental psychology in order to locate and evaluate the role played by biology in its most influential formulations. First Charles Darwin’s own writings on child development are examined. It is shown that Darwin endorsed such ideas as the ‘recapitulation’ of evolutionary ancestry in the developing child, even though this is inconsistent with his natural selection theory. The first great developmentalists – Hall, Baldwin, Freud – adopted and applied these non-Darwinian evolutionist ideas. The next generation – Vygotsky, Piaget, Werner – applied similar ideas in a variety of ways. Alongside this evolutionism, but interconnected with it, sensationist/empiricist forms of epistemology were directing developmentalists (from Rousseau onwards) to see the child as having to work himself out of sense-bound experience – to develop further and further from the ‘here-and-now’. Contemporary developmental theory retains these influences: biological approaches (ethological, psychobiological) remain pre-Darwinian in spirit; lifespan theories remain attached to biology; formal/cognitive approaches remain attached to sensationism. ‘Social context’ approaches are rather half-hearted, and it is only the social-constructionist orientation which seems to offer a real alternative to biology. Major conclusions are stated in chapter ten, which includes a re-evaluation of Darwin’s role.
Book Synopsis Biosocial Perspectives on Children by : Catherine Panter-Brick
Download or read book Biosocial Perspectives on Children written by Catherine Panter-Brick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood is a uniquely human life-stage, and is both a biological phenomenon and a social construct. Research on children is currently of wide-ranging interest. This book presents reviews of childhood from four major areas of interest - human evolution, sociology/social anthropology, bio-medical anthropology and developmental psychology - to form a biosocial, cross-cultural understanding of childhood. The book places a strong emphasis on how childhood varies from culture to culture, offering examples from developed and developing countries, as well as from other animal species. It will be of interest to students and scholars within the fields of human biology, anthropology, sociology, health studies and developmental psychology.
Book Synopsis Child Development in Evolutionary Perspective by : David F. Bjorklund
Download or read book Child Development in Evolutionary Perspective written by David F. Bjorklund and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural selection has operated as strongly or more so on the early stages of the lifespan as on adulthood. One evolved feature of human childhood is high levels of behavioral, cognitive, and neural plasticity, permitting children to adapt to a wide range of physical and social environments. Taking an evolutionary perspective on infancy and childhood provides a better understanding of contemporary human development, predicting and understanding adult behavior, and explaining how changes in the early development of our ancestors produced contemporary Homo sapiens.
Book Synopsis The Evolution of Childhood by : Melvin Konner
Download or read book The Evolution of Childhood written by Melvin Konner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an intellectual tour de force: a comprehensive Darwinian interpretation of human development. Looking at the entire range of human evolutionary history, Melvin Konner tells the compelling and complex story of how cross-cultural and universal characteristics of our growth from infancy to adolescence became rooted in genetically inherited characteristics of the human brain. All study of our evolution starts with one simple truth: human beings take an extraordinarily long time to grow up. What does this extended period of dependency have to do with human brain growth and social interactions? And why is play a sign of cognitive complexity, and a spur for cultural evolution? As Konner explores these questions, and topics ranging from bipedal walking to incest taboos, he firmly lays the foundations of psychology in biology. As his book eloquently explains, human learning and the greatest human intellectual accomplishments are rooted in our inherited capacity for attachments to each other. In our love of those we learn from, we find our way as individuals and as a species. Never before has this intersection of the biology and psychology of childhood been so brilliantly described. "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution," wrote Dobzhansky. In this remarkable book, Melvin Konner shows that nothing in childhood makes sense except in the light of evolution.
Book Synopsis Children's Understanding of Biology and Health by : Michael Siegal
Download or read book Children's Understanding of Biology and Health written by Michael Siegal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-18 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses research and theory to an in-depth account of children's understanding of biology and health. Each of the contributors views children's understanding in these areas to be to some extent adaptive to their well-being and survival and uses evidence collected through a variety of different techniques to consider whether young children are capable of basic theorising and understanding of health and illness. Topics ranging from babies to the elderly including birth, death, contamination and contagion, food and pain are examined and close links between research and practice are made with obvious attendant benefits in terms of education and communication. The combination of theory and practice will guarantee the appeal of this book to an international audience of advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and professionals in areas such as education, child welfare, medicine and law.
Book Synopsis Legal Concepts of Childhood by : Julia Fionda
Download or read book Legal Concepts of Childhood written by Julia Fionda and published by Hart Publishing. This book was released on 2001-12-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to assess how children are regarded by lawyers in disciplines which centrally involve them.
Book Synopsis Psychology Library Editions: Child Development by : Various
Download or read book Psychology Library Editions: Child Development written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 5953 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychology Library Editions: Child Development (20 Volume set) brings together a diverse number of titles across many areas of developmental psychology, from children’s play to language development. The series of previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1930 and 1993, with the majority from the 70s and 80s, includes contributions from many respected authors in the field and charts the progression of the field over this time.
Book Synopsis The Sociology of Early Childhood by : Norman Gabriel
Download or read book The Sociology of Early Childhood written by Norman Gabriel and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sociology of Early Childhood is a theoretically and historically grounded examination of young children’s experiences in contemporary society. Arguing that a sociology of early childhood must bring together and integrate different disciplines, this book: synthesises different sociological perspectives on childhood as well as incorporating multi-disciplinary research findings on the lives of young children explains key theoretical concepts in early childhood studies such as investment, early intervention, professional power and discourse examines the importance of play, memory and place evaluates long term parenting trends uses illustrative examples and case studies, discussion questions and annotated further reading to engage and stimulate readers. Invigorating and thought provoking, this is an invaluable read for advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students looking for a more nuanced and progressive understanding of childhood.
Book Synopsis Romanticism and Childhood by : Ann Wierda Rowland
Download or read book Romanticism and Childhood written by Ann Wierda Rowland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how emerging ideas of infancy and childhood gave Romantic writers and readers new ways of understanding history and literature.
Book Synopsis Elusive Childhood by : Susan Honeyman
Download or read book Elusive Childhood written by Susan Honeyman and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elusive Childhood examines how discourse touched by the identity politics of youth might be revised for fairness. Susan Honeyman demonstrates this potential by reading representations of children from throughout the Modern episteme in works of such writers as Henry James, Edith Wharton, and James Baldwin. Identity politics have changed the way we classify literature by opening up the canon, but they have also changed the way we approach literature. We've learned to recognize that biology is not destiny - sex doesn't necessarily determine gender or orientation, nor do fictitious absolutes like blood ratios measure ethnocultural identity, and so in an effort to avoid false generalizing about "others" we endorse individual self-representation, all the while recognizing how society constructs us." "But when it comes to representing the position we call childhood, there is little opportunity in legitimated discourse for children's self-representation and inadequate attention to social constructedness. Recognizing political inequity in literary representations of children, Honeyman proposes a method of reading child figuration in relief to impose as little adult prejudice as possible. This might be impossible for adults, yet it is necessary to attempt."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis New Perspectives on African Childhood by : De-Valera NYM Botchway
Download or read book New Perspectives on African Childhood written by De-Valera NYM Botchway and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be a child in Africa? In the detached Western media, narratives of penury, wickedness and death have dominated portrayals of African childhood. The hegemonic lens of the West has failed to take into account the intricacies of not only what it means to be an African child in local and culturally specific contexts, but also African childhood in general. Challenging colonial discourses, this edited volume guides the reader through different comprehensions and perspectives of childhood in Africa. Using a blend of theory, empiricism and history, the contributors to this volume offer studies from a range of fields including African literature, Afro-centric psychology and sociology. Importantly, in its eclectic geographical coverage of Africa, this book unashamedly presents the good, the bad and the ugly of African childhood. The resilience, creativity, pains and triumphs of African childhood are skilfully woven together to present the myriad of lived experiences and aspirations of children from across Africa. As an important contribution to African childhood studies, this book has the potential to be used by policymakers to shape, sustain or change socio-cultural, economic and education systems that accommodate African childhood dynamics and experiences at different levels.
Book Synopsis Young Children's Rights by : Priscilla Alderson
Download or read book Young Children's Rights written by Priscilla Alderson and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in association with Save the Children Priscilla Alderson examines the often overlooked issue of the rights of young children, starting with the question of how the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child applies to the youngest children, from birth to eight years of age. The question of finding a balance between young children's rights to protection, to provision (resources and services) and to participation (expressing their views, being responsible) is discussed. The author suggests that, in the belief we are looking after their best interests, we have become overprotective of children and deny them the freedom to be expressive, creative and active, and that improving the way adults and children communicate is the best way of redressing that balance. This second edition has been updated and expanded to include the relevance of UNCRC rights of premature babies, international examples such as the Chinese one-child policy, children's influence on regional policies, and the influence on young children's lives of policies such as Every Child Matters and those of the World Bank, IMF, OECD and UNICEF. This readable, informative and thought-provoking book is a compelling invitation to rethink our attitudes to young children's rights in the light of new theories, research and practical evidence about children's daily lives. It will be of interest to anyone who works with young children.
Book Synopsis The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies by : Sarada Balagopalan
Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies written by Sarada Balagopalan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies brings together an international group of childhood studies scholars who work with a range of critical theories. It speaks to both scholars and students by addressing questions such as how childhoods are diversely constructed and how children's experiences can be better understood. The volume draws together a diversity of theoretical perspectives from the social sciences and humanities such as critical race studies, disability studies, posthumanism, feminism, politics, decolonialism, queer theory and postcolonialism to generate a much-needed conversation about how to move childhood studies forward as a grounded field of research. The volume is subdivided into three sections - subjectivities, relationalities, and structures - each of which addresses different but interrelated approaches to childhood studies theorization. This handbook will be an essential text not just for childhood studies researchers, but for all those interested in theorizing what childhood is, what work it does and who children are.
Book Synopsis Key Thinkers in Childhood Studies by : Smith, Carmel
Download or read book Key Thinkers in Childhood Studies written by Smith, Carmel and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents the contrasting perspectives of some of the leading figures involved in shaping the field of childhood studies over the last 30 years. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 22 high profile pioneers in the subject, Carmel Smith and Sheila Greene share a wealth of experiences in this innovative field.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Early Childhood Development Research and Its Impact on Global Policy by : Pia Rebello Britto, Ph.D.
Download or read book Handbook of Early Childhood Development Research and Its Impact on Global Policy written by Pia Rebello Britto, Ph.D. and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Early Childhood Development Research and Its Impact on Global Policy calls for placing early childhood development at the top of the global policy agenda, enabling children to achieve their full developmental potential and to contribute to equitable economic and social progress worldwide.
Book Synopsis Children and Material Culture by : Joanna Sofaer Derevenski
Download or read book Children and Material Culture written by Joanna Sofaer Derevenski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to focus entirely on children and material culture. The international contributors, from a wide range of disciplines skilfully integrate theory and data to illustrate fully the significance of studying children.
Book Synopsis Understanding Children's Informal Learning by : Roseanna Bourke
Download or read book Understanding Children's Informal Learning written by Roseanna Bourke and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-19 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning and personal development are integral to being a person, and learning and teaching are integral to life as a social being. Understanding Children’s Informal Learning presents children’s informal learning out-of-school and explores how this knowledge can enhance teaching and learning practice in the classroom.
