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The Future of Childhood
Contributor(s): Prout, Alan (Editor)
ISBN: 0415256755     ISBN-13: 9780415256759
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $47.45  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2004
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Annotation: Alan Prout discusses the place of children and childhood in late modernity. He argues that as the general social and economic climate has been increasingly dominated by uncertainty, so there appears to be a greater cultural confusion about the appropriate form that childhood should take.
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Elementary
- Social Science | Children's Studies
- Social Science | Sociology - General
Dewey: 305.230
LCCN: 2004003839
Series: Future of Childhood (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 6.24" W x 9.24" (0.64 lbs) 184 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

In this ground-breaking book, Alan Prout discusses the place of children and childhood in modern society. He critically examines 'the new social studies of childhood', reconsidering some of its key assumptions and positions and arguing that childhood is heterogeneous and complex. The study of childhood requires a broad set of intellectual resources and an interdisciplinary approach. Chapters include:

  • the changing social and cultural character of contemporary childhood and the weakening boundary between adulthood and childhood
  • a look back at the emergence of childhood studies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
  • the nature/culture dichotomy
  • the role of material artefacts and technologies in the construction of contemporary childhood.

This book is essential reading for students and academics in the field of childhood studies, sociology and education.