Description
Book SynopsisThis exciting new book provides a novel interdisciplinary introduction to Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology. Its accessible approach illuminates holistic understandings of children and young peopleâs lives by drawing from multiple disciplines and theoretical frameworks and wide-ranging research examples, including case studies from around the world, featuring children and young peopleâs perspectives throughout.
Weaving insights from education and cultural studies, social anthropology, and sociology with social, cultural, and developmental psychology, it covers children and young peopleâs experiences and development from infancy to young adulthood (0â23 years) and their rights. Chapters explore key contemporary topics such as the following:
- Digital childhood and youth
- Childrenâs embodied experiences
- The social and cultural origins of selves
- Diverse families
- Race and ethnicity
- Global childhoods
- Models for understanding health and disability
- Childrenâs rights and agency
- Gender in childhood and youth
An essential reading for students on childhood and youth, psychology, and education courses, An Introduction to Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology is also a valuable introductory resource for practitioners working with children and young people and for parents and policy makers with an interest in how we understand children and young peopleâs lives today.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Understanding children and young people's lives
Chapter 1 What is Childhood and Youth Studies?
Chapter 2 The psychology of childhood and youth
Chapter 3 Children’s bodies
Chapter 4 Making sense of the self
Chapter 5 Diverse Families
Chapter 6 Young people’s mental health
Chapter 7 Education, schools, and learning
Chapter 8 Models of disability and their effects on children lives
Chapter 9 Race(ism) and ethnicity
Chapter 10 Global childhoods
Chapter 11 Gender in childhood and youth
Chapter 12 Digital childhood and youth: life with screens
Chapter 13 Adolescents, teenagers, and youth: A time of change
Chapter 14 Transitions to adulthood
