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    International Approaches and Pedagogies

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    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This timely collection explores how children display social competence in talking about their mental health and wellbeing. The authors analyse recorded conversations of young people’s interactions with professionals in which they disclose particular mental health concerns and their ways of coping, drawing on insights from ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and discursive psychology. Across a ... Read more

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    Technologies and Children’s Everyday Lives

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book highlights the multiple ways that digital technologies are being used in everyday contexts at home and school, in communities, and across diverse activities, from play to web searching, to talking to family members who are far away. The book helps readers understand the diverse practices employed as children make connections with digital technologies in their everyday experiences.In ... Read more

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    Series Book 15 - Sociological Studies of Children and Youth
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