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Book SynopsisRecovers a history of feminist thought and activism that demands greater voice and respect for young people

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Book SynopsisRecovers a history of feminist thought and activism that demands greater voice and respect for young people

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Book SynopsisIn this important, timely and thought-provoking publication, a wide range of contributors explore how troubles feature in normal families, and how the normal features in troubled families.Trade Review"A wealth of insightful essasys, the book is filled with careful reflection of hte process of change...in the everyday lives of children and young people." British Journal of Social Work "Whether you currently work within social work, health, education or another agency, there is something for everyone within this book." Child Abuse Review "This brilliant book provides a wealth of insights that make it essential reading for academics and students across the social sciences, and for policy makers and practitioners." Harry Ferguson, Professor of Social Work, University of NottinghamTable of ContentsPreface Troubling normalities and normal family troubles: diversities, experiences and tensions ~ Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Carol-Ann Hooper and Val Gillies Part 1: Approaching Family Troubles? Contexts and Methodologies Cultural context, families and troubles ~ Jill Korbin Representing family troubles through the 20th century ~ Janet Fink The role of science in understanding family troubles ~ Michael Rutter Family troubles, methods trouble: qualitative research and the methodological divide ~ Ara Francis Part 2: Whose Trouble? Contested Definitions and Practices Disabled parents and normative family life: the obscuring of lived experiences of parents and children within policy and research accounts ~ Harriet Clarke and Lindsay O’Dell Normal problems or problem children? Parents and the micro-politics of deviance and disability ~ Ara Francis Troubled talk and talk about troubles: moral cultures of infant feeding in professional, policy and parenting discourses ~ Helen Lomax Children’s non-conforming behaviour: personal trouble or public issue? ~ Geraldine Brady Revealing the lived reality of kinship care through children and young people’s narratives: “It’s not all nice, it’s not all easy-going, it’s a difficult journey to go on” ~ Karin Cooper Part 3: The Normal, the Troubling and the Harmful? Troubling loss? Children’s experiences of major disruptions in family life ~ Lynn Jamieson and Gill Highet The permeating presence of past domestic and familial violence: “So like I’d never let anyone hit me but I’ve hit them, and I shouldn’t have done” ~ Dawn Mannay Thinking about sociological work on personal and family life in the light of research on young people’s experience of parental substance misuse ~ Sarah Wilson The trouble with siblings: some psychosocial thoughts about sisters, aggression and femininity ~ Helen Lucey Children and family transitions: contact and togetherness ~ Hayley Davies Part 4: Troubles and transitions across space and culture ‘Troubling’ or ‘ordinary’? Children’s views on migration and intergenerational ethnic identities ~ Umut Erel Colombian families dealing with parents’ international migration ~ Maria Claudia Duque-Páramo Families left behind: unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK ~ Elaine Chase and June Statham Young people’s caring relations and transitions within families affected by HIV ~ Ruth Evans Estimating the prevalence of forced marriage in England ~ Peter Keogh, Anne Kazimirski, Susan Purdon and Ruth Maisey Part 5: Working with Families European perspectives on parenting and family support ~ Janet Boddy What supports resilient coping among family members? A systemic practitioner’s perspective ~ Arlene Vetere Troubled and troublesome teens: mothers’ and professionals’ understandings of parenting teenagers and teenage troubles ~ Harriet Churchill and Karen Clarke Contested family practices and moral reasoning: updating concepts for working with family-related social problems ~ Hannele Forsberg Working with fathers: risk or resource? ~ Brid Featherstone What is at stake in family troubles? Existential issues and value frameworks ~ Jane Ribbens McCarthy

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Book SynopsisIn this important, timely and thought-provoking publication, a wide range of contributors explore how troubles feature in normal families, and how the normal features in troubled families.Trade Review"This brilliant book provides a wealth of insights that make it essential reading for academics and students across the social sciences, and for policy makers and practitioners." Harry Ferguson, Professor of Social Work, University of NottinghamTable of ContentsPreface Troubling normalities and normal family troubles: diversities, experiences and tensions ~ Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Carol-Ann Hooper and Val Gillies Part 1: Approaching Family Troubles? Contexts and Methodologies Cultural context, families and troubles ~ Jill Korbin Representing family troubles through the 20th century ~ Janet Fink The role of science in understanding family troubles ~ Michael Rutter Family troubles, methods trouble: qualitative research and the methodological divide ~ Ara Francis Part 2: Whose Trouble? Contested Definitions and Practices Disabled parents and normative family life: the obscuring of lived experiences of parents and children within policy and research accounts ~ Harriet Clarke and Lindsay O’Dell Normal problems or problem children? Parents and the micro-politics of deviance and disability ~ Ara Francis Troubled talk and talk about troubles: moral cultures of infant feeding in professional, policy and parenting discourses ~ Helen Lomax Children’s non-conforming behaviour: personal trouble or public issue? ~ Geraldine Brady Revealing the lived reality of kinship care through children and young people’s narratives: “It’s not all nice, it’s not all easy-going, it’s a difficult journey to go on” ~ Karin Cooper Part 3: The Normal, the Troubling and the Harmful? Troubling loss? Children’s experiences of major disruptions in family life ~ Lynn Jamieson and Gill Highet The permeating presence of past domestic and familial violence: “So like I’d never let anyone hit me but I’ve hit them, and I shouldn’t have done” ~ Dawn Mannay Thinking about sociological work on personal and family life in the light of research on young people’s experience of parental substance misuse ~ Sarah Wilson The trouble with siblings: some psychosocial thoughts about sisters, aggression and femininity ~ Helen Lucey Children and family transitions: contact and togetherness ~ Hayley Davies Part 4: Troubles and transitions across space and culture ‘Troubling’ or ‘ordinary’? Children’s views on migration and intergenerational ethnic identities ~ Umut Erel Colombian families dealing with parents’ international migration ~ Maria Claudia Duque-Páramo Families left behind: unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK ~ Elaine Chase and June Statham Young people’s caring relations and transitions within families affected by HIV ~ Ruth Evans Estimating the prevalence of forced marriage in England ~ Peter Keogh, Anne Kazimirski, Susan Purdon and Ruth Maisey Part 5: Working with Families European perspectives on parenting and family support ~ Janet Boddy What supports resilient coping among family members? A systemic practitioner’s perspective ~ Arlene Vetere Troubled and troublesome teens: mothers’ and professionals’ understandings of parenting teenagers and teenage troubles ~ Harriet Churchill and Karen Clarke Contested family practices and moral reasoning: updating concepts for working with family-related social problems ~ Hannele Forsberg Working with fathers: risk or resource? ~ Brid Featherstone What is at stake in family troubles? Existential issues and value frameworks ~ Jane Ribbens McCarthy

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Book SynopsisThe book combines social pedagogy theories, psychology, sociology and social work with a social constructionist perspective to help practitioners guide children and young people to cope better with the challenges they face as they grow up. Trade Review"This is a substantial book, albeit one with a very practical focus – it is for students and professionals who want to study and work with children and young people. It is a very accessible, one-volume account of the theory and practice of social pedagogy, and it will allow UK professionals to engage more fully in international dialogues about social pedagogy practice. Its publication is very timely and there is nothing else like it on the market at the moment." Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care"A Solid Contribution." European Journal of Social Work"In this book, the reader is presented with a realistic, practice-related picture of modern social pedagogy. Through pointing out the various possibilities and different paths to follow in working with children and families within this tradition, the author is at all times very clear about his own position and views." Trude Løkholm, Assistant Professor, University College of Harstad, NorwayTable of ContentsPreface to the original Norwegian edition; Preface to the English edition; Introduction - why social pedagogy?; Theoretical perspectives on social pedagogy; From theory to practice; Who is the social pedagogue?; What does the social pedagogue do?; What are the tools of the social pedagogue's trade?; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThe book combines social pedagogy theories, psychology, sociology and social work with a social constructionist perspective to help practitioners guide children and young people to cope better with the challenges they face as they grow up.Trade Review"This is a substantial book, albeit one with a very practical focus – it is for students and professionals who want to study and work with children and young people. It is a very accessible, one-volume account of the theory and practice of social pedagogy, and it will allow UK professionals to engage more fully in international dialogues about social pedagogy practice. Its publication is very timely and there is nothing else like it on the market at the moment." Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care"A Solid Contribution." European Journal of Social Work"In this book, the reader is presented with a realistic, practice-related picture of modern social pedagogy. Through pointing out the various possibilities and different paths to follow in working with children and families within this tradition, the author is at all times very clear about his own position and views." Trude Løkholm, Assistant Professor, University College of Harstad, NorwayTable of ContentsPreface to the original Norwegian edition; Preface to the English edition; Introduction - why social pedagogy?; Theoretical perspectives on social pedagogy; From theory to practice; Who is the social pedagogue?; What does the social pedagogue do?; What are the tools of the social pedagogue's trade?; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding childhood is a fresh look at how childhood has changed in recent years and reveals how children's needs and experiences have achieved a new visibilityTrade Review"Relevant and easily understood. Provide good understanding of the issues" Mary Andall, Canterbury Christ Church University."An excellent set of books. Perfect for any first or second year undergraduate student wishing to find an interactive, contemporary and theoretically stimulating text." Marie Lavelle, Plymouth University.Table of ContentsChildhood in crisis? ~ Mary Jane Kehily; Childhood: a historical approach ~ Laurence Brockliss; Childhood: a developmental appraoch ~ Martin Woodhead; Childhood: an anthropological approach ~ Heather Montgomery; Childhood: a sociocultural approach ~ Lesley Gallacher; How is knowledge about childhood produced? ~ Martyn Hammersley.

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Book SynopsisThe book offers insights into childhood by focusing on accounts of home and family, school, public spaces and sites of work in local and global settings.Trade Review"An excellent set of books. Perfect for any first and second year undergraduate student wishing to find an nteractive, contemporary and theoretically stimulating text." Marie Lavelle, Plymouth University."Childhoods in context represents a valuable source of knowledge about childhood and children’s lives. It draws attention to children’s identities as relational and connected to places. It is highly inspiring and will be of great interest to a wide audience. " Anne Trine Kjorholt, Norwegian Centre for Child Research“This book provides a comprehensive account of the spatial materialities of childhood. Drawing together disparate strands of the debates around children's spaces and places, it provides key interdisciplinary insights that underscore the global importance of understanding the spatial contexts of children's lives. Well-written and accessible, this book will make a significant and timely contribution to the childhood studies field.” Professor Allison James, University of Sheffield"Useful reading widening the scope of understanding around the action of childhood." Julian Kranz, University of Sunderland.Table of ContentsChildren in and out of place ~ Alison Clark ~ Lesley Gallacher; Home and family ~ Alison Clark ~ Mary Jane Kehily; Public spaces ~ Peter Kraftl; Making schools: spaces, objects and relationships ~ Alison Clark; Children and work ~ Lindsay O'Dell ~ Sarah Crafter ~ Heather Montgomery; Using visual data in research on childhood ~ Martyn Hammersley.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the perspectives of 22 leading figures involved in shaping the field of Childhood Studies over the last 30 years. They reflect on the changes that have taken place in the study of children and childhood, discuss ideas underpinning the field, examine current dilemmas and explore challenges for the future.Trade Review"A fascinating, thought-provoking and considered resource" Children's Geographies“A fascinating, rich, and deeply informative conversation about the origins and future of the new paradigm of childhood studies. ... Both newcomers and long-time practitioners will leave these pages invigorated and inspired." John Wall, Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Childhood Studies, Rutgers University, USA"An interdisciplinary look at the field, based on interviews with 22 professionals who have played a significant role in its development, which provide insights on the past, present, and future importance of childhood studies." ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction; Leena Alanen; Priscilla Alderson; Erica Burman; Pia Christensen; Daniel Thomas Cook; William A. Corsaro; Judith Ennew; Ivar Frønes; Robbie Gilligan; Roger Hart; Harry Hendrick; Allison James; Mary Kellett; Berry Mayall; Peter Moss; Alan Prout; Jens Qvortrup; Irene Rizzini; Annie G. Rogers; Nigel Thomas. Barrie Thorne; Martin Woodhead; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the perspectives of 22 leading figures involved in shaping the field of Childhood Studies over the last 30 years. They reflect on the changes that have taken place in the study of children and childhood, discuss ideas underpinning the field, examine current dilemmas and explore challenges for the future.Trade Review"A fascinating, thought-provoking and considered resource" Children's Geographies“A fascinating, rich, and deeply informative conversation about the origins and future of the new paradigm of childhood studies. ... Both newcomers and long-time practitioners will leave these pages invigorated and inspired." John Wall, Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Childhood Studies, Rutgers University, USA"An interdisciplinary look at the field, based on interviews with 22 professionals who have played a significant role in its development, which provide insights on the past, present, and future importance of childhood studies." ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction; Leena Alanen; Priscilla Alderson; Erica Burman; Pia Christensen; Daniel Thomas Cook; William A. Corsaro; Judith Ennew; Ivar Frønes; Robbie Gilligan; Roger Hart; Harry Hendrick; Allison James; Mary Kellett; Berry Mayall; Peter Moss; Alan Prout; Jens Qvortrup; Irene Rizzini; Annie G. Rogers; Nigel Thomas. Barrie Thorne; Martin Woodhead; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis ambitious book is the first to provide a detailed insight into the politics and practices of internal school exclusion, highlighted through the experiences of the young people attending internal behaviour support units.Trade Review"This deeply narrative-driven research evocatively writes about a classed, raced and gendered education system for those children who are considered `troublesome’. A remarkable, honestly debated ethnographic work." Chrissie Rogers, Aston University"While the analysis is conducted with scientific rigor and intellectual clarity, Gillies’ style of writing is engaging and enjoyable, thus it should be warmly recommended to teachers and the wider public." - Journal of Education PolicyTable of ContentsDisciplining pupils: from exclusion to ‘inclusion’; An ethnography of ‘inclusion’: reflecting on the research process; Contextualising challenging behaviour; Damaged boys, needy girls; Dynamics of disadvantage: race, gender and class; ‘Yo momma ...’: foregrounding families; “Ain't doing tramp's work”: educational marginalisation and imagined futures; The politics of exclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis ambitious book is the first to provide a detailed insight into the politics and practices of internal school exclusion, highlighted through the experiences of the young people attending internal behaviour support units.Trade Review"This deeply narrative-driven research evocatively writes about a classed, raced and gendered education system for those children who are considered `troublesome’. A remarkable, honestly debated ethnographic work." Chrissie Rogers, Aston University"While the analysis is conducted with scientific rigor and intellectual clarity, Gillies’ style of writing is engaging and enjoyable, thus it should be warmly recommended to teachers and the wider public." - Journal of Education PolicyTable of ContentsDisciplining pupils: from exclusion to ‘inclusion’; An ethnography of ‘inclusion’: reflecting on the research process; Contextualising challenging behaviour; Damaged boys, needy girls; Dynamics of disadvantage: race, gender and class; ‘Yo momma ...’: foregrounding families; “Ain't doing tramp's work”: educational marginalisation and imagined futures; The politics of exclusion.

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Book SynopsisAn exploration the phenomena of contemporary fatherhood, this book presents the current state of knowledge on father involvement with young children in six countries: Finland, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, the UK and the USA.Trade Review"Marina Adler, Karl Lenz and their colleagues paint a detailed picture of fathers' involvement in child rearing in six countries. This volume represents a valuable addition to the cross-national scholarship on work and family, and helps us to gauge how masculinity is evolving in culture, policy and practice." Jerry Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania, USATable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Marina A. Adler, Karl Lenz; Father involvement with young children in contemporary Finland~ Jouko Huttunen and Petteri Eerola; Father involvement with young children in contemporary Germany ~ Marina A. Adler, Karl Lenz, Yve Stöbel-Richter; Father involvement with young children in contemporary Italy ~ Elisabetta Ruspini and Maria Letizia Tanturri; Father involvement with young children in contemporary Slovenia ~ Nada Stropnik and Živa Humer; Father involvement with young children in the contemporary United Kingdom ~ Margaret O’Brien, Sara Connolly, Svetlana Speight, Matthew Aldrich, and Eloise Poole; Father involvement with young children in the contemporary United States ~ Marina A. Adler; Comparative father involvement: The dynamics of gender culture, policy, and practice ~ Marina A. Adler and Karl Lenz.

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Book SynopsisThis book highlights how the social experience of caring for, and relating to, a parent in later life has a significant impact on the adult child.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Midlife and the adult child 2. Becoming a carer 3. The transition to care 4. Materiality, clothing, and embodiment in care 5. Social connections and relationship building in residential care 6. The loss of parents in later life Final reflections

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Book SynopsisAddresses moralising within discourses of childhood and youth and asks how we might do things differently.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Gary Clapton; 1. Child protection and moral panic - Ian Butler; 2. Unearthing Melodrama: Moral Panic; Theory and the Enduring Characterisation of Child Trafficking - Joanne Westwood; 3. Lost childhood? - Kay Tisdall; 4. Internet risk research and child sexual abuse: a misdirected moral panic? - Ethel Quayle; 5. The Rotherham Abuse Scandal - Anneke Meyer; Afterword - Mark Hardy

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Book SynopsisThis collection of 12 new and revised essays on child care and children’s services gives a unique and lasting review of child care services explaining significant political, economic, legal and ideological aspects of this history from the mid-1850s.Trade Review"This is a book that should be read by every serious researcher, policy maker, manager and senior practitioner in children's services." Research, Policy and Planning"Highly recommended... enables the reader to engage with the text and its multiple use of statistics in a manner that does not hamper the reader's understanding." Child Care in Practice"Roy's book is to be commended to anyone who wants to think about child care services, whether they are politicians, professionals or academics to that they may learn from the past and from identifying trends, underlying themes and potential pitfalls, when putting together new approaches." The Therapeutic Care Journal“This is an incisive, scholarly, and elegantly written book, relevant to the future as to the past. I know no one else who could have written it.” Ian Sinclair, University of York“In this unique historical overview, Roy Parker brings life-long scholarship to an analysis of the changing problems facing disadvantaged children in Britain. Continuities and discontinuities, conflicts and resolutions are carefully considered in this exceptionally thoughtful and fascinating compendium.” Roger Bullock, Emeritus Professor of Child Welfare Research, University of Bristol, Former Director, Dartington Social Research UnitTable of ContentsIntroduction: Patterns of change and continuity; Residential child care: an historical perspective; From boarding-out to foster care; The evolution of landmark legislation; Getting started with the Children Act 1948: what do we learn?; Child care in the melting pot in the 1980s; Trends, transitions and tensions: children’s services since the 1980s; Reflections on the assessment of outcomes in child care; The role and function of inquiries; Evidence, values, judgement and engagement; Emerging issues: looking ahead.

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Book SynopsisThis detailed study of children's everyday practices in a small deprived neighbourhood of post-socialist Bratislava, provides a novel insight on the formation of children's agency and the multitude of resources it comes from.Trade Review"[Blazek's] dynamic, interactive, and reflexive approach to discovery is based on a strong foundation in theory but is not limited by it...[This] book offers a springboard for further studies on the socio-political and cultural relevance of child agency." Slavic Review"Inspirational for both academics and practitioners, this book draws extensively on rich empirical data and original field notes as well as being grounded in the relevant literatures. It offers many thoughts on the details of everyday life and the ethics of studying this." Bettina van Hoven, University of Groningen, the Netherlands"Based in rich, insightful empirical analyses, this important book offers a unique theory of children’s social-political action, both rooted in and effective beyond local places. A timely intervention into contemporary academic debates about children’s agency." Peter Kraftl, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsPart One: Introduction; Part Two: Locating the field; Practising the field; Thinking the field; Part Three: Public spaces of Kopčany; The body and embodiment; Things; Everyday social encounters and circumscribed routines; Family life; Friendship; Notions of social identity; Part Four: Rematerialising children’s agency.

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Book SynopsisA vital challenge to the internationally accepted policy and practice consensus that intervention to shape parenting in the early years, underpinned by interpretations of brain science, is the way to prevent disadvantage.Trade Review"A compelling critique of contemporary developments in early intervention. Beautifully written and rigorously researched this book deserves a wide audience." Brigid Featherstone, University of Huddersfield"A powerful and accessibly written analysis, this is an important critical resource for students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners who work with children and families." Janet Boddy, University of Sussex"This disturbing book forensically unpicks the relationships between science and politics. A milestone contribution to policy research." Stephen J Ball, University College LondonTable of ContentsThe politics of early intervention and evidence; Citizens of the future; Rescuing the infant brain; In whose best interests?; Case studies of interests at play; Saving children; Reproducing inequalities; Reclaiming the future: alternative visions.

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Book SynopsisA vital challenge to the internationally accepted policy and practice consensus that intervention to shape parenting in the early years, underpinned by interpretations of brain science, is the way to prevent disadvantage.Trade Review"A compelling critique of contemporary developments in early intervention. Beautifully written and rigorously researched this book deserves a wide audience." Brigid Featherstone, University of Huddersfield"A powerful and accessibly written analysis, this is an important critical resource for students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners who work with children and families." Janet Boddy, University of Sussex"This disturbing book forensically unpicks the relationships between science and politics. A milestone contribution to policy research." Stephen J Ball, University College LondonTable of ContentsThe politics of early intervention and evidence; Citizens of the future; Rescuing the infant brain; In whose best interests?; Case studies of interests at play; Saving children; Reproducing inequalities; Reclaiming the future: alternative visions.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how pathologising ideas of failing, chaotic and dysfunctional families create a powerful consensus that Britain is in the grip of a `parent crisis' and are used to justify increasingly punitive state policies.Trade Review"Quite simply a stunning tour de force. A riveting, page-turning dissection of the relationships between parenting culture, policy and neoliberalism... it analyses a staggering variety of texts and draws upon extensive interview data to explore the roots and ramifications of `mother-blame’ in particular. It is a highly original and profoundly important sociological analysis... It is destined to become not only the book to read on parent-blame under neoliberal statecraft, but a classic in feminist media studies and political sociology. Beautifully written with a voice of urgency and integrity, the book offers... an illustration of why politically engaged and theoretically informed scholarship is so important in the context of chronic and widening social inequalities." Dr Tom Slater, University of Edinburgh"A timely, energetic, and engaging critique of the presumptions behind parent-blaming in culture and policy-making." Dr Jennie Bristow, Canterbury Christ Church University"A valuable contribution to the debate about the significance of `parenting’ and an educative case study in the social construction of the `bad parent’." Jan Macvarish, University of KentTable of ContentsIntroduction Mothercraft to Mumsnet The Cultural Industry of Parent Blame Parenting – with feeling Parenting in austere times: warmth and wealth Weaponising parent-blame in post-welfare Britain Epilogue: `Mummy Maybot’: a new age of authoritarian neoliberalism

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how pathologising ideas of failing, chaotic and dysfunctional families create a powerful consensus that Britain is in the grip of a `parent crisis' and are used to justify increasingly punitive state policies.Trade Review"Quite simply a stunning tour de force. A riveting, page-turning dissection of the relationships between parenting culture, policy and neoliberalism... it analyses a staggering variety of texts and draws upon extensive interview data to explore the roots and ramifications of `mother-blame’ in particular. It is a highly original and profoundly important sociological analysis... It is destined to become not only the book to read on parent-blame under neoliberal statecraft, but a classic in feminist media studies and political sociology. Beautifully written with a voice of urgency and integrity, the book offers... an illustration of why politically engaged and theoretically informed scholarship is so important in the context of chronic and widening social inequalities." Dr Tom Slater, University of Edinburgh"A timely, energetic, and engaging critique of the presumptions behind parent-blaming in culture and policy-making." Dr Jennie Bristow, Canterbury Christ Church University"A valuable contribution to the debate about the significance of `parenting’ and an educative case study in the social construction of the `bad parent’." Jan Macvarish, University of KentTable of ContentsIntroduction Mothercraft to Mumsnet The Cultural Industry of Parent Blame Parenting – with feeling Parenting in austere times: warmth and wealth Weaponising parent-blame in post-welfare Britain Epilogue: `Mummy Maybot’: a new age of authoritarian neoliberalism

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Book SynopsisThis is the classic assessment of the state of child well-being in the UK. This fourth edition has been updated to review the latest evidence, including the impact of the economic crisis and austerity measures since 2008. An essential resource.Trade Review"With chapters written by exceptional authors, rich data, intra and inter national comparison and above all the leadership of Prof Bradshaw this is a most valuable publication for anyone who cares about children, wants to know more about their life and to promote their well-being." Asher Ben-Arieh, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel“This wide-ranging, information-dense, analytic yet accessible text will appeal to a multi-disciplinary audience. Students, researchers, policymakers and on-the-ground practitioners will find this a relevant, up-to-date and comprehensive resource… This book makes a significant contribution to helping to promote a realistic, research-informed understanding of children’s wellbeing.” Children’s Geographies“In the absence of an official `State of the Nation’ report on child well-being in the UK, this volume – like its predecessors – is the place to go. Offering rigorous and dispassionate analysis of the evidence, it makes sense of where we are and points to what needs to be done.” Nick Axford, Head of What Works, Dartington Social Research UnitTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Jonathan Bradshaw; Demography of childhood ~ Jonathan Bradshaw; Child poverty and deprivation ~ Jonathan Bradshaw and Gill Main; Physical health ~ Jonathan Bradshaw, Veronica Dale and Karen Bloor; Subjective well-being and mental health ~ Gwyther Rees Gill Main; Education ~ Antonia Keung; Housing and the environment for children ~ Deborah Quilgars; Children’s time and space ~ Antonia Keung; Children and young people in care and leaving care ~ Gwyther Rees and Mike Stein; Child maltreatment ~ Gwyther Rees; Childcare and early years ~ Christine Skinner; Children, crime and correction ~ Rachel Morris and Lisa O’Malley; Conclusion ~ Jonathan Bradshaw.

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Book SynopsisDebunking the myth of the ageing time bomb, this timely book from the authors of Retiring with Attitude challenges our assumptions and stereotypes and demonstrates that we are capable of living better together longer in this new, older world.Trade Review"At last a book that consistently makes the positive case for later life and, in the process, demolishes the myths that dominate public discussion of ageing. A breath of fresh air, highly recommended." Professor Alan Walker, University of Sheffield"Grounded in academic literature, and in the powerful words of their research participants, the authors inspire readers to envision new possibilities for growth and development in later life." Jacquelyn B. James, Lynch School of Education, Boston College, USA"How do we learn to live in a society that's growing older but doesn't conform to the old "Pipe and Slippers" stereotypes? This inspiring book, with its compelling snapshot stories of older people's lives, provides powerful insights into this modern age of ageing. All those involved in policy-making should read this book." Rt Hon Harriet Harman QC MP"Excellent and eminently readable account of the personal, political and professional changes in our ageing lives. Nuggets from policy and practice arenas are interlaced with quotes from interviews with an array of differently ageing women and men." Miriam David, UCL Institute of Education"The authors give the lie to many negative myths about ageing. Using anecdotes and research evidence they shed a welcome light on the contribution made by older people to modern society." Judy Wurr, Mental Capacity Assessor"Challenges many of society's rigid stereotypes of older people. It navigates the reader through the main debates on ageing in an accessible and informative way." Dr Tatiana Rowson, Heriot Watt University"The New Age of Ageing is an important book, and our society would benefit from policy-makers taking note of the authors' numerous recommendations." Citizen's Income Trust“We need more books like The New Age of Ageing in the UK and Europe. [This book] is thoughtful translational work, which aims to fill a gap between expert knowledge and populist rhetoric. For this reason, it is to be viewed as both timely and significant.” Critical Social Policy"The book’s panoramic sweep across policy and its spirited style make for an easy but rewarding read. Anyone new to the subject of our ageing society, and especially those with responsibilities for policy or services for older people, would do well to study this book closely." Journal of Population AgeingTable of ContentsLiving longer together; Going on and on; How society makes people old; Time-bomb, what time bomb? The economics of ageing; Overlooked and Under-estimated: Older Consumers; Working longer together; Media exclusion; Cover up; Living Together; Who Cares?; Wiser together; The best bits; The dark side; We’re still here.

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Book SynopsisPlacing children's experiences, needs and concerns at the centre of its examination of contemporary policies and political discourses surrounding poverty in childhood, this book examines a broad range of structural, institutional and ideological factors common across developed nations and forges a radical new pathway for the future.Trade Review“Beautifully written, highly scholarly and well organised. A devastating critique of oppressive government, this book will be used as a source by students from a range of disciplines.” Jonathan Bradshaw, University of York"Child poverty is a national disgrace in the UK. Read this wide-ranging book to understand the facts and to get a new handle on how to address these pressing problems." Jane Millar, University of BathTable of ContentsIntroduction Context Family Lone parenthood Education In and out of work Health Ethnicity and disability Adversity and poverty Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThrough the perspectives of young people themselves, this book reviews changes in policy and practices that affected the generation of young people who grew up in state care in China during the last 20 years.Trade Review"This book provides us with intriguing stories of Chinese orphans in their adulthood. It also offers a telling argument for changing practices to ensure a better future for children in state care." Kinglun Ngok, Centre for Public Administration Research, Sun Yat-Sen UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction to leaving state care in China Children in alternative care Alternative care practices in child welfare institutions Leaving care policies Social inclusion impact of a childhood in state care Self-identity of young people leaving state care Economic security of young people leaving care Social networks and employment of young people leaving care Housing pathways of young people leaving care State support for children in informal care Growing up in institutional family group care Policy implications for young people leaving care in China

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an analysis of the limitations of child attachment theory as the basis for decision-making in child welfare practice, examining controversies and offering a new pedagogy that is responsive to the changing dynamics of contemporary families.Trade Review"Reassessing Attachment Theory in Child Welfare is an incredibly valuable intervention into debates about the use of attachment theory and research by practitioners. The authors highlight major discrepancies between the accounts of attachment of researches and of practitioners and offer some timely cautions. They also present an insightful account of why attachment theory - or, at least, a cut-down version of it - has had such appeal for child welfare practice. A terrific contribution to the literature." Matthew Gibson, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsPreface: becoming attached to attachment theory Love is a wondrous state: origins and early debates Social work and the attachment story: a felicitous bond? Shaping practice: prescribing assessment Practising attachment theory in child welfare Exhibiting disorganised attachment: not even wrong? Breaking the back of love: attachment goes neuro-molecular Coda: love reawakened?

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an analysis of the limitations of child attachment theory as the basis for decision-making in child welfare practice, examining controversies and offering a new pedagogy that is responsive to the changing dynamics of contemporary families.Trade Review"Reassessing Attachment Theory in Child Welfare is an incredibly valuable intervention into debates about the use of attachment theory and research by practitioners. The authors highlight major discrepancies between the accounts of attachment of researches and of practitioners and offer some timely cautions. They also present an insightful account of why attachment theory - or, at least, a cut-down version of it - has had such appeal for child welfare practice. A terrific contribution to the literature." Matthew Gibson, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsPreface: becoming attached to attachment theory Love is a wondrous state: origins and early debates Social work and the attachment story: a felicitous bond? Shaping practice: prescribing assessment Practising attachment theory in child welfare Exhibiting disorganised attachment: not even wrong? Breaking the back of love: attachment goes neuro-molecular Coda: love reawakened?

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Book SynopsisCovering key concepts, theories, themes and issues, this textbook uses a range of multi-disciplinary insights to show how children and young people negotiate crucial challenges and transitions in their lives. Covering different practice dimensions, it provides fresh insights on key topics and includes a range of learning support features.Trade Review“An invaluable text for students and professionals. Importantly, a holistic approach to working with children and their families is emphasised in order to analyse and reflect upon important issues.” Kim Holt, Northumbria University"Human growth and development in children and young people has highly relevant and useful content that I would recommend to everyone working with the development of children and young people to read" European Journal of Social WorkTable of ContentsPart 1: Introducing the theory; Traditional approaches to human growth and development – Jonathan Parker; Psychoanalytic approaches – Stephen Briggs; Cognitive theories and cognitive development – Margarete Parrish; Social construction and emotional development – Jo Finch; Critical perspectives – Jonathan Parker; Moral, spiritual and existential development – Wilfred McSherry, Alison Rodriguez and Joanna Smith; Part 2: Specific developmental issues; An introduction to the principles of attachment theory – Gabrielle Schaeffer; Young people’s transition to adulthood – Nick Frost and Melanie Watts; Developmental and life course criminology – Richard Heslop and Jonathan Parker; Loss and bereavement in childhood – Sue Taplin; Culture and coming of age: the example of Muslims in Britain – Sara Ashencaen Crabtree; Part 3: Professional practice; Impacts of child maltreatment: critical considerations – Lisa Bunting; Substitute care: moving into a new family – Christine Cocker; Working with disabled children and young people – Louise Oliver and Sally Lee; Mental health and children – Elisabeth Willumsen, Siv E.N. Sæbjørnsen and Atle Ødegård; Working with unaccompanied migrant children and young people seeking asylum – Deborah Hadwin, Gurnam Singh and Stephen Cowden.

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the frustrating gap between research conducted on effective practices and the lack of routine use of such practices. The author introduces a model for reducing this gap, highlighting the roles of social networks, research evidence, practitioner/policymaker decision-making, research-practice-policy partnerships.Trade Review“Using compelling examples of programmes and associated research, this book takes us through the processes needed to implement high quality services in child welfare settings. Researchers, administrators, policy-makers, practitioners and students alike will benefit from its honest look at what it takes to deliver a service effectively." Aron Shlonsky, Monash UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction The need for evidence-based practice Understanding and reducing the gap EBP implementation in child welfare and child mental health Social networks and EBP implementation Use of research evidence and EBP implementation Local models of EBP implementation Research-practice-policy partnerships Cultural exchange and EPB implementation A transactional model of implementing EBP

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the frustrating gap between research conducted on effective practices and the lack of routine use of such practices. The author introduces a model for reducing this gap, highlighting the roles of social networks, research evidence, practitioner/policymaker decision-making, research-practice-policy partnerships.Trade Review“Using compelling examples of programmes and associated research, this book takes us through the processes needed to implement high quality services in child welfare settings. Researchers, administrators, policy-makers, practitioners and students alike will benefit from its honest look at what it takes to deliver a service effectively." Aron Shlonsky, Monash UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction The need for evidence-based practice Understanding and reducing the gap EBP implementation in child welfare and child mental health Social networks and EBP implementation Use of research evidence and EBP implementation Local models of EBP implementation Research-practice-policy partnerships Cultural exchange and EPB implementation A transactional model of implementing EBP

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the qualitative research findings, this book develops a new framework to provide a useful analytical tool for academics and practitioners working with children and families to make sense of young people's experiences of parental separation and divorce and puts forward suggestions for improving support for children in the future.Trade Review“Combining interesting theory and research, this book captures young people’s voices and explores some of the fundamental issues surrounding parental separation. It presents thought-provoking discussions for academics, practitioners and students.” Rebecca Westrup, University of East AngliaTable of ContentsIntroduction; What is known about children’s experience of parental separation and divorce; The Research Study; Constructing a new framework for understanding children’s accommodation of parental separation; Setting the context for the framework: Emotions; Reactions; Support; Communication; Conflict; Future directions.

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Book SynopsisAn examination of the early work of the innovative Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children Ethics and Law Committee. It will help anyone involved in other cohort studies to understand how ethical policies evolve.Trade Review"A fascinating account of a pioneering study, which developed ethical procedures in an evolving context with no existing coherent framework." Anna Tarrant, University of LincolnTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: ALSPAC Ethics and Law Committee: a new concept one Preliminaries and pioneers: framing the questions two Informal or casual: an unusual style three Advisory to independent: a missed opportunity four Bureaucratic battles: liaison with the Local Research Ethics Committees Part Two: Policy development: a case of case law five Confidentiality and anonymity: a rod for their own backs six Informed consent: too much information seven Child protection: an observational study? eight Disclosure of individual results: foreseen feedback and incidental findings nine Disclosure of individual results: participants’ requests ten Participants’ problems: people not policies eleven External databases: anonymous linkage Part Three: Beyond policy: a broad remit twelve Retention of the Cohort: incentives or inducements thirteen Commercial collaborations: selling our souls fourteen Comprehensive oversight: undocumented and unacknowledged fifteen Influence beyond ALSPAC: extension of expertise Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how young people across different European contexts participate in decision-making and foster changes on issues that concern them and their communities, giving new insights into discourses on young people's as active citizens across Europe.Table of ContentsRevisiting Young People’s Participation: An Introduction ~ Maria Bruselius-Jensen, Kay Tisdall and Ilaria Pitti Part One Cultural Activism Against Inequalities: The Experience of Quaderni Urbani in Bologna ~ Alessio La Terra It’s Okay to Think Freely: How Participation Changed Us ~ Christina McMellon, Katherine Dempsie & Myada Eltiraifi Frontrunners Against Inequality: The Stories Of Darpan and Barwaqo ~ Darpan Raj Gautam and Barwaqo Jamma Husein Part Two Bounded Agency and Social Participation: How Socioeconomic Situation and Experiences Influence Young People’s Way of Engaging In Society ~ Sabine Israel, Jo Deakin, Renata Frank, Anna Markina, Rein Murakas and Markus Quandt From Ideology to Strategic Engagement ~ Jonas Lieberkind Digital Participation and Digital Divides in Former Socialist Country ~ Airi-Alina Allaste and David Cairns The Participation Project: How Projects Shape Young People’s Participation ~ Maria Bruselius-Jensen and Anne Mette W. Nielsen Part Three Young Italians and the Crisis: Emerging Trends in Activism and Self-Organisation ~ Ilaria Pitti and Nicola De Luigi Justifying Self-Organisation: Between Inequality and Critique ~ Anne-Lene Sand Advocacy and Participation: Young People with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their Experiences with Statutory Casework ~ Cecilie K. Moesby-Jensen Young people seeking asylum: voice and activism in a ‘hostile environment’ ~ Grainne McMahon, Grainne and Rhetta Moran Part Four Meaningful, Effective, and Sustainable? Challenges for Children and Young People’s Participation ~ E. Kay M. Tisdall Journey Mapping as a Method to Make Sense of Participation ~ Anne Mette W. Nielsen and Maria Bruselius-Jensen Playful Walks: A Methodological Approach for Analysing the Embodied Citizenship of Young People in the Countryside ~ Claire Levy Transformative Participation in the Lifeworlds of Marginalised Youth: Learning for Change ~ Mette Bladt and Barry Percy-Smith Revisiting Young People’s Participation and Looking Ahead: Concluding Remarks ~ E. Kay M. Tisdall, Ilaria Pitti, Maria Bruselius-Jensen

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Book SynopsisA fresh approach to supporting children who experience parental separation and divorce. Murch argues for preventative intervention which responds to children's worries when they first present them, without waiting until things have gone badly wrong.Trade Review“A useful text, giving the reader the opportunity to reflect on practice and developments in this area and how they may be able to influence further change.” Seen and Heard“This book contains the wisdom of a professional lifetime spent integrating mental health and judicial concerns from a leading architect of the family justice system.” Christopher Clulow, PhD. Senior Fellow, the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology“Distilling a lifetime’s work and reflection, this is an essential read for anyone concerned about the needs of children on family breakdown.” Gillian Douglas, Executive Dean, King’s College London“At a time when the mental health of our young people is of national concern… This is an essential text that should inform policy and practice both in family law and education.” James Wetz, Author of 'Urban Village Schools'Table of ContentsPart I: Illuminating the field of policy Some key background data Setting out the stall Numbers, scale and trends Summarised research reviews upon which to promote social and emotional wellbeing in children of separated parents Hearing the voice of the child: messages from research that expose gaps between theory, principle and reality Part II: Primary prevention Children dealing with the crisis of parental separation: towards new supportive practice and policy Children in crisis speak out The crisis model of preventive mental health and its potential application for support services for children coping with parental separation The pros and cons of the preventive mental health approach Providing short-term primary preventative crisis intervention for children in schools Part III: Secondary prevention Family justice policy under the Coalition government (2010–15): how will a new regime meet the needs of children with separating and divorcing parents? The repeal of S41 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and related reforms: is the state turning a blind eye to the needs of children in divorce proceedings? Demolition and reconstruction in the family justice regime: what can be salvaged for children whose parents separate and divorce? Changing the culture of family justice: barriers to be overcome Part IV: Embedding the crisis intervention approach The future policy and practice challenge Barriers obstructing a preventive mental health approach Policy and practice proposals to support children and young people coping with interparental conflict and separation Scanning the horizon

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Book SynopsisA fresh approach to supporting children who experience parental separation and divorce. Murch argues for preventative intervention which responds to children's worries when they first present them, without waiting until things have gone badly wrong.Trade Review"This book contains the wisdom of a professional lifetime spent integrating mental health and judicial concerns from a leading architect of the family justice system." Christopher Clulow, PhD. Senior Fellow, the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology "Distilling a lifetime's work and reflection, this is an essential read for anyone concerned about the needs of children on family breakdown." Gillian Douglas, Executive Dean, King's College London "At a time when the mental health of our young people is of national concern... This is an essential text that should inform policy and practice both in family law and education." James Wetz, Author of 'Urban Village Schools'Table of ContentsPart I: Illuminating the field of policy Some key background data Setting out the stall Numbers, scale and trends Summarised research reviews upon which to promote social and emotional wellbeing in children of separated parents Hearing the voice of the child: messages from research that expose gaps between theory, principle and reality Part II: Primary prevention Children dealing with the crisis of parental separation: towards new supportive practice and policy Children in crisis speak out The crisis model of preventive mental health and its potential application for support services for children coping with parental separation The pros and cons of the preventive mental health approach Providing short-term primary preventative crisis intervention for children in schools Part III: Secondary prevention Family justice policy under the Coalition government (2010–15): how will a new regime meet the needs of children with separating and divorcing parents? The repeal of S41 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and related reforms: is the state turning a blind eye to the needs of children in divorce proceedings? Demolition and reconstruction in the family justice regime: what can be salvaged for children whose parents separate and divorce? Changing the culture of family justice: barriers to be overcome Part IV: Embedding the crisis intervention approach The future policy and practice challenge Barriers obstructing a preventive mental health approach Policy and practice proposals to support children and young people coping with interparental conflict and separation Scanning the horizon

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Book SynopsisLessons from child protection errors and mistakes in 11 countries in Europe and North America are drawn together in a stimulating study from leading researchers in the field. By comparing and contrasting impacts, responses and responsibilities, it deepens understanding of how child protection systems fail and points to ideas for risk reduction.Trade Review“I would highly recommend this book for social workers, academics and researchers in the area of child protection and welfare, particularly those with an interest in child protection internationally. It should be compulsory reading for all social workers in child protection in Ireland.” The Irish Social WorkerTable of ContentsErrors and mistakes in child protection: the paradox of doing wrong; Definitions, approaches and challenges; England; Ireland; The Netherlands; Finland; Norway; Sweden; Switzerland; Germany; France; Italy; The USA; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND. This book explores how children's rights are weighed against parents' rights in a range of countries, and examines how governments and legal and welfare professionals balance those rights following the decision that children cannot grow up in their parents' care.Table of ContentsIntroducing the field of adoption from care ~ Tarja Poesoe, Marit Skivenes and June Thoburn Part I: Adoption from care in risk-oriented child protection systems Adoption from care in England: learning from experience ~ June Thoburn Overcoming the Soviet legacy? Adoption from care in Estonia ~ Katre Luhamaa and Judit Stroempl Adoption of children from state care in Ireland: in whose best interests? ~ Kenneth Burns and Simone McCaughren Adoption from care: policy and practice in the United States ~ Jill Duerr Berrick Part II: Adoption from care in family service-oriented child protection systems Adoption from care in Austria ~ Jenny Krutzinna and Katrin Kriz Adoption from care in Finland: currently an uncommon alternative to foster care ~ Pia Eriksson and Tarja Poesoe Adoption from care in Germany: inconclusive policy and poorly coordinated practice ~ Thomas Meysen and Ina Bovenschen Adoption from care in Norway ~ Hege Stein Helland and Marit Skivenes Adoption from care in Spain ~ Sagrario Segado, Ana Cristina Gomez Aparicio and Esther Abad Guerra Part III: Human rights platform and ways of belonging International human rights law governing national adoption from care ~ Katre Luhamaa and Conor O'Mahony Creating 'family' in adoption from care ~ Jenny Krutzinna Understanding attachment in decisions on adoption from care in Norway ~ Hege Stein Helland and Sveinung Hellesen Nygard The adoptive kinship network: issues around birth family contact in adoption ~ June Thoburn Making sense of adoption from care in very different contexts ~ Tarja Poesoe, Marit Skivenes and June Thoburn

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a practical and concise introductory guide to doing research with children and young people, outlining the benefits and challenges along with key ethical, methodological and other considerations. Throughout, there are practical examples, checklists and top tips to aid the reader.Trade Review"An excellent, up-to-date resource with practical suggestions for designing research and overcoming ethical challenges to enable children and young people to participate in research and have their voice heard." Emily Tanner, NatCen Social ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction The context for social research with children and young people Involving children and young people in research Ethical considerations Designing appropriate methods for children and young people Conclusions

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Book SynopsisBased on a unique longitudinal study and offering a critical visual methodology of collaborative seeing, this book shows how a diverse community of young people in Worcester, MA used cameras at different ages (10, 12, 16, 18) to capture the centrality of care in their lives, homes and classrooms.Trade Review"Children Framing Childhoods challenges the deficit models of working-class children by asking them to tell us what is important to know about school and home. Demonstrating their ways of doing care work offers adults lessons on how to create a caring environment and offers hope for the future of our country." Mary Romero, President of the American Sociological Association“A powerful book that centralizes the voices of children, specifically illuminating how working-class kids frame their childhoods—through photographs and related meanings and contexts. [It] has a strong and powerful focus on how social inequalities, especially related to class, race, and gender, shape how the children and young people learn and express what they feel entitled to, constrained by, and how they envision their future possibilities. Overall, the most powerful and crucial of the children’s stories and photographs is the depth that is manifested in their profound and basic understanding about care—that care is work, something that requires time, effort, resources, and coordination, as well as attention and investment; it is also mundane, necessary, and arduous and affectively linked with social units and spaces (in this case, family, school, friendship circles, and communities). Care, then as Luttrell argues, is the basic currency of community—indeed, in a democratic society, it is the precondition of freedom itself.” Journal of Women and Social WorkTable of ContentsPrelude: Worcester, Massachusetts. Fall, 2003 Digital Interlude #1: Dwelling in School 1. Ways of Seeing Diverse Working-Class Children and Childhoods 2. The Everyday Politics of Belonging/s 3. Motherhood, Childhood, and Love Labor in Family Choreographies of Care Digital Interlude #2: Feeding the Family 4. School Choreographies of Care: Being Seen, Being Safe, and Being Believed Digital Interlude #3: Nice…? 5. That’s (Not) Me Now: Development, Identity, and Being in Time Digital Interlude #4: Being in Time 6. The Freedom to Care Postlude: Notes on Reflexive Methods: Past, Present, and Future Digital Interlude #5: Collaborative Seeing

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how children, young people and families cope with situations of socio-economic poverty and precarity in diverse international contexts and looks at the evidence of the harms and inequalities caused by these processes.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson and Sarah Marie Hall PART I: Transformations Reconceptualising inner-city education? Marketisation, strategies and competition in the gentrified city ~ Eric Larsson and Anki Bengtsson Youth migration to Lima: vulnerability or opportunity, exclusion or network-building? ~ Dena Aufseeser Sleepless in Seoul: understanding sleepless youth and their practices at 24-hour cafés through neoliberal governmentality ~ Jonghee Lee- Caldararo ‘Live like a college student’: student loan debt and the college experience ~ Denise Goerisch ‘Everywhere feels like home’: transnational neoliberal subjects negotiating the future ~ Michael Boampong PART II: Intersections/inequalities Negotiating social and familial norms: women’s labour market participation in rural Bangladesh and North India ~ Heather Piggott Marginalised youth perspectives and positive uncertainty in Addis Ababa and Kathmandu ~ Vicky Johnson and Andy West Infantilised parents and criminalised children: the frame of childhood in UK poverty discourse ~ Aura Lehtonen and Jacob Breslow Learning to pay: the financialisation of childhood ~ Carl Walker, Peter Squires and Carlie Goldsmith Immigration, employment precarity and masculinity in Filipino- Canadian families ~ Philip Kelly The undeserving poor and the happy poor: interrelations between the politics of global charity and austerity for young people in Britain ~ Ruth Cheung Judge PART III: Futures Looking towards the future: intersectionalities of race, class and place in young Colombians’ lives ~ Sonja Marzi ‘My aim is to take over Zane Lowe’: young people’s imagined futures at a community radio station (UK) ~ Catherine Wilkinson Dependent subjects and financial inclusion: launching a credit union on a campus in Taiwan ~ Hao-Che Pei and Chiung-wen Chang ‘If you think about the future you are just troubling yourself’: uncertain futures among caregiving and non-caregiving youth in Zambia ~ Caroline Day Conclusions and futures: growing up and getting by ~ Helena Pimlott-Wilson, Sarah Marie Hall and John Horton

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how children, young people and families cope with situations of socio-economic poverty and precarity in diverse international contexts and looks at the evidence of the harms and inequalities caused by these processes.Table of ContentsSection 1: Introduction; Introduction ~ John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson, Sarah Marie Hall; Section 2: Transformations; Tackling family poverty: in the best interests of children? ~ John McKendrick; Spatial entitlement in an era of neo-liberal educational marketization – Inner city elite schools and the relationally defined counterparts (Sweden) ~ Eric Larsson and Elisabeth Hultqvist; Seasonal migration to Lima: Exclusion and opportunity? ~ Dena Aufseeser; Night-time geography and neoliberalism: a study of sleepless youth and their practices at 24-hour-cafés in Seoul (South Korea) ~ Jonghee Lee; ‘Live like a college student’: Student Loan Debt and the College Experience (USA) ~ Denise Goersich; Section 3: Intersections/Inequalities; State, economic crises and the necessity of social reproduction: negotiated and constrained interdependencies ~ Michael Boampong; Negotiating Social and Familial Norms: Women's Labour Experiences in Rural Bangladesh and North India ~ Heather Piggott; Changing Definitions of (Child) Poverty: The Contested Spaces of Childhood and the Family In UK Austerity Politics ~ Jacob Breslow and Aura Lehtonen; Learning to Pay: the financialization of childhood; Masculinity and Intergenerational Mobility in Recessionary Times: The Case of Filipino-Canadian Male Youth Outcomes ~ Philip Kelly; Relational ecologies of care-experienced youth and the politicised ‘border’ of successful and failed transitions: the policy omnipresence of reaching ‘adult independence’ (UK and Australia) ~ Caroline Cresswell; Section 4: Futures; Looking Towards the Future: Young Colombians’ Aspirations and Social Mobility Boundaries ~ Sonja Marzi; “My aim is to take over Zane Lowe”: Young People’s Imagined Futures at a Community Radio Station (UK) ~ Catherine Wilkinson; Self-cultivating financial citizenship: A case of a campus-based credit union movement in Taiwan ~ Hao-Che Fei and Chiung-wen Chang; Section 5 – Concluding reflections; Reflections ~ John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson, Sarah Marie Hall.

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Book SynopsisBased on a unique longitudinal study and offering a critical visual methodology of collaborative seeing, this book shows how a diverse community of young people in Worcester, MA used cameras at different ages (10, 12, 16, 18) to capture the centrality of care in their lives, homes and classrooms.Trade Review"Children Framing Childhoods challenges the deficit models of working-class children by asking them to tell us what is important to know about school and home. Demonstrating their ways of doing care work offers adults lessons on how to create a caring environment and offers hope for the future of our country." Mary Romero, President of the American Sociological Association“Luttrell’s elegant visual ethnography of home and school brings forward the caring work of immigrant families, teachers, and young students themselves. Her innovative “collaborative seeing” methodology challenges deficit perceptions of urban schooling and offers a vision of education with caring at its core.” Marjorie DeVault, Syracuse University“Wendy Luttrell has given us a gem that will innovate critical childhood studies for years to come. This book takes us on an intimate journey across time and images, claiming space for children’s carework.” Lauren J Silver, Rutgers University-CamdenTable of ContentsPrelude: Worcester, Massachusetts. Fall, 2003 Digital Interlude #1: Dwelling in School 1. Ways of Seeing Diverse Working-Class Children and Childhoods 2. The Everyday Politics of Belonging/s 3. Motherhood, Childhood, and Love Labor in Family Choreographies of Care Digital Interlude #2: Feeding the Family 4. School Choreographies of Care: Being Seen, Being Safe, and Being Believed Digital Interlude #3: Nice…? 5. That’s (Not) Me Now: Development, Identity, and Being in Time Digital Interlude #4: Being in Time 6. The Freedom to Care Postlude: Notes on Reflexive Methods: Past, Present, and Future Digital Interlude #5: Collaborative Seeing

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Book SynopsisPresenting new research, this book provides refreshing guidance on how social workers can ensure that children and parents participate more effectively in decision making processes when childcare social workers are involved and improve outcomes for all.Table of ContentsIntroduction Children’s and Parents’ Participation: Current Thinking ~ Clive Diaz and Lorna Stabler How Parents and Children View the System Young People’s Perspectives Young People’s Participation: Views from Social Workers and IROs Senior Managers’ Perspectives When it Goes Wrong Summary and Conclusion

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Book SynopsisPresenting new research, this book provides refreshing guidance on how social workers can ensure that children and parents participate more effectively in decision making processes when childcare social workers are involved and improve outcomes for all.Table of ContentsIntroduction Children’s and Parents’ Participation: Current Thinking ~ Clive Diaz and Lorna Stabler How Parents and Children View the System Young People’s Perspectives Young People’s Participation: Views from Social Workers and IROs Senior Managers’ Perspectives When it Goes Wrong Summary and Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book examines a participatory approach in child protection practices in Norway and the United States. It explores ways of empowering children; shows how they can be encouraged to express their own opinions and explores tools for child protection workers to negotiate complex boundaries around the inclusion of children in decision-making.Table of ContentsIntroduction Children’s participation as contested practice Non- participation triggers Participation triggers Doing participation Youth citizens Protecting children, creating citizens Appendix 1: Research methods Appendix 2: Discussion questions

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Book SynopsisThis book explores what happened to the 'Romanian orphans' of the 1990s, including those who stayed in institutions as well as those who were fostered and adopted domestically and internationally. Looking in detail at their experiences, the book provides valuable new evidence on what is important for children in care today.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Romania: what underlay the orphan crisis 3. Where do children go when they can’t stay with their families? 4. Childhoods in care 5. Teen years in care and their ways out 6. Exploring life trajectories: what mattered to them 7. The benefit of hindsight: learning for policy and practice

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Book SynopsisWhat does mothering mean in different cultures and societies? This book extensively applies biographical and narrative research methods to mothering from international perspectives. Considering self-care, rapport, trust and self-reflection, the collection advances methodological practice in the study of mothers, carers and childless women's lives.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Biographical Approaches to Mothering- Identities and Lived Realities – Lyudmila Nurse, Lisa Moran and Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků 1. Becoming and Being a Polish Mother: Narratives on the Motherhood Experience - Katarzyna Gajek, Poland 2. “A Good Mother is a Good Mother and a Good Wife”: Gender Politics, and Mothering Practice Among Older Iranian Muslim Women - Elham Amini, UK 3. The Emergence of a Pandemic, Biographical Disruption and the Exploration of Mothering and Shifting Identities - Fibian Lukalo, Kenya 4. Biographies of Roma Mothering in Contemporary Czechia. Exploring Tapestries of Multi-ethnic Gendered Identity in a Marginalised Social Position - Kateřina Sidiropulu Janků, Austria & Jana Obrovská, Czech Republic 5. Identities and Life Choices of Mothers in a Disadvantaged Neighbourhood in England - Lyudmila Nurse, UK 6. Giving Voice to Irish Mothers Experiencing Separation and Divorce - Rosemary Crosse and Michelle Millar, Ireland 7. Ideal, Good Enough, and Failed Motherhood: How Disabled Canadian Mothers Manage in Hostile Circumstances - Claudia Malacrida, Canada 8. Confronting Meanings of Motherhood in Neoliberal Australia: Six Crystallized Case Studies - Laetitia Coles, Emma Cooke & Jasneek Chawla, Australia 9. Unplanned Breakdown of Foster Mothering. Biographical Perspectives on Identity Challenges of Foster Mothers - Daniela Reimer, Switzerland 10. Non-Mothers: Identities, Ambiguity, Biography Making and Life Choices - Joan Cronin, Ireland Conclusion: Exploring Mothering in Future Biographical Research- Inter-disciplinarity, Trans-disciplinarity and New Research Agendas - Lisa Moran, Lyudmila Nurse and Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků

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