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Young People’s Daily Mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa

Moving Young Lives

by Gina Porter, Kate Hampshire, Albert Abane, Alister Munthali, Elsbeth Robson, Mac Mashiri ...

Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
This book explores the daily mobilities and immobilities of children and young people in sub-Saharan Africa. The authors draw on findings from rural and urban field research extending over many years, culminating in a 24-site study across three African countries: Ghana, Malawi, and South Africa. Wider reflections on gender, relationality, the politics of mobility, and field methodology frame the ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book explores the daily mobilities and immobilities of children and young people in sub-Saharan Africa. The authors draw on findings from rural and urban field research extending over many years, culminating in a 24-site study across three African countries: Ghana, Malawi, and South Africa. Wider reflections on gender, relationality, the politics of mobility, and field methodology frame the
... Read more
Children and Young People as Knowledge Producers

Edited by Gina Porter, Janet Townsend, Kate Hampshire ...

Despite the widespread promotion of children’s voices by activists and policy makers over the last decade, the potential for young people’s knowledge to impact on adult agendas and policy arenas is by no means a certainty. This book presents critiques of participation in settings where young people are the centre of attention. The complexities and power-dynamics of youth- adult relationships are ... Read more

$51.99 USD

Despite the widespread promotion of children’s voices by activists and policy makers over the last decade, the potential for young people’s knowledge to impact on adult agendas and policy arenas is by no means a certainty. This book presents critiques of participation in settings where young people are the centre of attention. The complexities and power-dynamics of youth- adult relationships are
... Read more
Children's Rights in Ghana

Reality or Rhetoric?

by Albert Abane, Frank Owusu Acheampong, Michael Kwodwo Adjaloo, George Oppong Ampong, Lilian Ayete-Nyampong, Kathrin Blaufuss, George Clerk, Beatrice Akua Duncan, Kate Hampshire, Kate Kilpatrick, Peter Ohene Kyei, Sylvester Kyei-Gyamfi, Leah McMillan, Gina Porter, Afua Twum-Danso, Georgina T. Wood ...

This is the first book that examines Ghana's compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Ghana being the first country to ratify the Convention, it thus fills an important gap in the literature on Ghana. The book throws a searchlight on a wide range of rights issues including children's identity, violence against children and women, child exploitation and ... Read more

$48.99 USD

This is the first book that examines Ghana's compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Ghana being the first country to ratify the Convention, it thus fills an important gap in the literature on Ghana. The book throws a searchlight on a wide range of rights issues including children's identity, violence against children and women, child exploitation and
... Read more
Putting Children First

New Frontiers in the Fight Against Child Poverty in Africa

by Yisak Tafere, Elizabeth Ngutuku, Winnie C Sambu, Katharine Hall, Somefun Dolapo Oluwaseyi, Akinyemi Joshua Odunayo, Odimegwu Clifford, Tassew Woldehanna0, Stephen Devereux1, Julian May2, Coretta Jonah3, Nicola Hypher4, Luke Harman5, Kerina Zvobgo6, Oluwatosin Akomolafe7, Billow Hassan8, Stephen Mutiso9, Munshi Sulaiman0, Nikhit D’Sa1, Sarah Press2, Anna Du Vent3, Ahmed Farahat4, Gina Porter5, Kate Hampshire6, Alister Munthali7, Elsbeth Robson8, Sita Conklin9, Nicola Jones0, Umutoni Marie Francoise1, Bekele Tefera2, Ernestina Coast3, Workneh Yadete4, Guday Emirie5, Kassahun Tilahun6, Isimbi Roberte7, Marlene Ogawa8, Shirley Pendlebury9, Carmel Marock0 ...

Series Book 7 - CROP International Poverty Studies
Despite important strides in the fight against poverty in the past two decades, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in Africa. Poverty in all its dimensions is detrimental for early childhood development and leads to often unreversed damage for the lives of girls and boys, locking children and families into intergenerational poverty. This edited volume contributes to the ... Read more

$28.99 USD

Despite important strides in the fight against poverty in the past two decades, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in Africa. Poverty in all its dimensions is detrimental for early childhood development and leads to often unreversed damage for the lives of girls and boys, locking children and families into intergenerational poverty. This edited volume contributes to the
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Childhood and Schooling in (Post)Socialist Societies

Memories of Everyday Life

Edited by Nelli Piattoeva, Iveta Silova, Zsuzsa Millei ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book explores childhood and schooling in late socialist societies by bringing into dialogue public narratives and personal memories that move beyond imaginaries of Cold War divisions between the East and West. Written by cultural insiders who were brought up and educated on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain - spanning from Central Europe to mainland Asia - the book offers insights into the ... Read more

$80.99 USD

This book explores childhood and schooling in late socialist societies by bringing into dialogue public narratives and personal memories that move beyond imaginaries of Cold War divisions between the East and West. Written by cultural insiders who were brought up and educated on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain - spanning from Central Europe to mainland Asia - the book offers insights into the
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Character Matters

How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues

by Thomas Lickona ...

Award-winning psychologist and educator Thomas Lickona offers more than one hundred practical strategies that parents and schools have used to help kids build strong personal character as the foundation for a purposeful, productive, and fulfilling life.Succeeding in life takes character, and Lickona shows how irresponsible and destructive behavior can invariably be traced to the absence of good ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Award-winning psychologist and educator Thomas Lickona offers more than one hundred practical strategies that parents and schools have used to help kids build strong personal character as the foundation for a purposeful, productive, and fulfilling life.Succeeding in life takes character, and Lickona shows how irresponsible and destructive behavior can invariably be traced to the absence of good
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The Life Project

The Extraordinary Story of 70,000 Ordinary Lives

by Helen Pearson ...

A fascinating account of a scientific project that tracked 5 generations of children—the longest-ever-running study of human development.The lives of 70,000 people reveal the importance of our beginnings on the greater trajectory of our lives.In March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week as part of a birth cohort study. No one imagined that this would become ... Read more

$11.99 USD

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A fascinating account of a scientific project that tracked 5 generations of children—the longest-ever-running study of human development.The lives of 70,000 people reveal the importance of our beginnings on the greater trajectory of our lives.In March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week as part of a birth cohort study. No one imagined that this would become
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Children and Young People's Participation and Its Transformative Potential

Learning from across Countries

Edited by E.K.M. Tisdall, Andressa M. Gadda, Udi Mandel Butler ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book explores children and young people's involvement in public action. The contributors consider the potential of children and young people's participation to be transformative. ... Read more

$89.99 USD

Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book explores children and young people's involvement in public action. The contributors consider the potential of children and young people's participation to be transformative.
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Disabled Children's Childhood Studies

Critical Approaches in a Global Context

Edited by T. Curran, K. Runswick-Cole ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This collection offers first-hand accounts, research studies and in-depth theoretical explorations of disabled children's childhoods. The accounts oppose the global imposition of problematic views of disability and childhood and instead, offer an open discussion of responsive and ethical research approaches. ... Read more

$80.99 USD

This collection offers first-hand accounts, research studies and in-depth theoretical explorations of disabled children's childhoods. The accounts oppose the global imposition of problematic views of disability and childhood and instead, offer an open discussion of responsive and ethical research approaches.
... Read more
Collateral Damage

Guiding and Protecting Your Child Through the Minefield of Divorce

by Dr. John Chirban ...

Based on research from more than 10,000 surveys from children and parents of divorce, Collateral Damage presents parents with an overview of the negative impact that divorce has on their children and offers ways to better serve their needs at this critical time.Approximately fifty percent of marriages in the United State fail. Add to that the increasing number of couples who never marry, have ... Read more

$11.99 USD

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Based on research from more than 10,000 surveys from children and parents of divorce, Collateral Damage presents parents with an overview of the negative impact that divorce has on their children and offers ways to better serve their needs at this critical time.Approximately fifty percent of marriages in the United State fail. Add to that the increasing number of couples who never marry, have
... Read more

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NCFE CACHE Level 3 Early Years Educator for the Work-Based Learner

The only textbook for Early Years endorsed by CACHE

by Penny Tassoni ...

Master the knowledge and skills you need to obtain the new work-based CACHE Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Workforce (Early Years Educator) qualification.Written by bestselling author and early years expert Penny Tassoni, this is the only textbook for work-based learners endorsed by CACHE. Tassoni makes learning the key concepts on the job both easy and enjoyable. This book will support you ... Read more

$15.99 USD

Master the knowledge and skills you need to obtain the new work-based CACHE Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Workforce (Early Years Educator) qualification.Written by bestselling author and early years expert Penny Tassoni, this is the only textbook for work-based learners endorsed by CACHE. Tassoni makes learning the key concepts on the job both easy and enjoyable. This book will support you
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Youth and Sport for Development

The Seduction of Football in Liberia

by Holly Collison ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
Processes of development concerning reconciliation, rehabilitation and peace-building have become a central theme for global organizations tasked with intervening in broken and divided societies after violent conflicts. What can reunite populations divided by war and violence whilst attempting to build a peaceful civil society? This book considers the impact and value of sport, notably football, ... Read more

$49.99 USD

Processes of development concerning reconciliation, rehabilitation and peace-building have become a central theme for global organizations tasked with intervening in broken and divided societies after violent conflicts. What can reunite populations divided by war and violence whilst attempting to build a peaceful civil society? This book considers the impact and value of sport, notably football,
... Read more

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