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Being a child in a global world
Combining global perspectives and knowledge of different disciplines, Being a Child in a Global World is a truly ground-breaking and comprehensive multidisciplinary study, answering urgent challenges of our time - a must-read for scholars interested in the global condition of childhood.
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Below the surface
A guide to the latest research on how young people can develop positive ethnic-racial identities and strong interracial relationsToday’s young people are growing up in an increasingly ethnically and racially diverse society. How do we help them navigate this world productively, given some of the ...
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Childhood unplugged
Screens are everywhere. Kids spend an average of 7.5 hours on digital devices daily with profoundly negative consequences. Childhood Unplugged takes a bold approach to regulating children’s use of digital media, suggesting more time spent offline will benefit their resilience, independence, and f...
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Childhood, youth and activism
Considering the meanings of activism by and for children and young people in the twenty-first century, this edited collection is a valuable resource for scholars, educators and practitioners interested in the intersections of childhood and youth studies, activism and movements for social change.
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Children and youth as ‘sites of resistance’ in armed conflict
During the chaos and devastation of armed conflict, children and youth often emerge as powerful agents of change and resilience. The first of two volumes, this is a compelling exploration of their profound roles as active participants, often functioning as sites of resistance within the complex d...
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Children and youth in armed conflict
This book contains an Open Access chapter. The second of two volumes, the chapters offer a compelling exploration of how children and youth endure conflict and how their stories are told and retold in the public sphere, influencing advocacy, policymaking, and community responses worldwide.
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Children and youths’ migration in a global landscape
This volume contains an Open Access Chapter. Children and Youths' Migration in a Global Landscape interrogates how transnational mobility shapes the lives of the relatively young, and addresses questions that encourage us to consider what it means to be a transnationally mobile child or youth in...
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Children, youth and time
Providing fresh insight at a crucial moment of global disruption, Children, Youth and Time reflects on the complex concept of time as perceived and experienced by children and young people in relevant societal and generational contexts.
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Coaching and mentoring young people
Written by an academic and practitioner team, this unique text combines rigorous research with practical advice to examine coaching and mentoring in youth work, highlighting the purpose of these interventions in supporting the transition of young people from adolescence to adulthood.
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Cracking the boy code
Drawing on thousands of hours of one-on-one counseling, Cracking the Boy Code explains boys' psychological needs and how to use specific, clearly explained techniques for effective communication. Includes the crucial role of non-verbal cues, motivating boys to become their authentic selves and de...
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Educating young people for a sustainable future
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Focusing on issues affecting young people in educational contexts using an inclusivity lens, chapters delve into causes, consequences & proposed interventions of inequal...
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Ethics and integrity in research with children and young people
This international and multi-disciplinary edited collection unpacks some of the ethical complexities of conducting research with children and young people. The chapters in the volume offer an applied perspective to navigating contemporary and complicated ethical issues that can arise in the field...
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Macro-micro connections in the pathways to adulthood
The theme of this volume, studies in macro-micro influences on children, in their pathways to adulthood is aimed at examining the points of intersect between individual and family level reactions to the socioeconomic forces buffeting all industrialised societies.
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Peripheral creativities
Peripheral Creativities examines the intersection of urban segregation, creative practices, and public policy in understanding marginalised youth living in peripheral territories.
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Reimagining relationships and sex education
Presenting ‘safe uncertainty’ as a transformative framework for understanding adolescent intimacies and relationships, Setty and Hunt critique current deficit models in relationships and sex education in place of a nuanced engagement with digital intimacies, online sexual learning and sex media, ...
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Reshaping youth participation
Reshaping Youth Participation reframes discussions around youth political, social, civic, and cultural participation. Drawing upon insights on democracy and citizenship, self-organising and protest movements, and arts activism as engaged social activism, chapters consider the spaces in which youn...
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Sociological research and urban children and youth
Recognizing the potential research with and about young people can have in decision making on multiple levels of policy and service provision, this book provides a key foundation for considering the influence of urban environments on young people, and vice versa.
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Sociological studies of children
The volumes in this series illustrate how social organization and private, emotional experience are different phases of the social process. They show the steps by which emotional experience is shaped by social structural, macro-level processes and how these processes are changed by experience.
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Sociological studies of children and youth
This volume illustrates how international childhood researchers can use current concepts and theories into unlikely contexts exposing their limitations and helping to inform more versatile and robust lines of thinking for children and youth studies.
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Sociological studies of children and youth
This volume showcases important work of sociologists helping to define the direction of the sub-field. Their work shares basic premises and concerns: children and youth are active agents in their own 'socialization', produce meaning and action collaboratively with peers, and struggle for agency i...
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Sociological studies of children and youth
This volume contains a diverse set of chapters that offer a good balance of quantitative and qualitative methodologies; focus on children, youth, or both children and youth; and come from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Two prominent themes of the volume are adolescents' transition to adul...
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The 21st century ladz
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Richard Gater studies the school-to-work transition and formation of masculinity of a group of marginalised working-class young men from the South Wales Valleys.
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The roles of independent children’s rights institutions in advancing human rights of children
The contributors to this edited collection provide first-hand experiences in directing, working for, and studying ICRIs and detail their unique, in-depth accounts of factors shaping ICRIs’ efforts to monitor and advance children’s rights.
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The social construction of adolescence in contemporaneity
Expanding this area of youth studies across specific contexts, The Social Construction of Adolescence in Contemporaneity offers new interpretive possibilities to deepen the understanding of issues that concern young people.
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The socially constructed and reproduced youth delinquency in southeast asia
Analysing the causes and effects of a variety of youth delinquent behaviours, both digital and conventional, this book aligns insightful sociological inquiry with an ongoing regional phenomenon.
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Unearthing the institutionalised social exclusion of black youth in contemporary south africa
South Africa is often dubbed a young nation, with youth making up 35.7% of the population. But are its institutions set up to include all young people equitably? Kubeka highlights how the social exclusion of impoverished black youth in South Africa remains deeply entrenched within the key institu...
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Young and lonely
Anchored in accounts of young people’s personal experiences of loneliness, this book addresses important questions about tackling today’s epidemic of loneliness among young people. It explores experiences of loneliness in early life, how it is navigated when first encountered and considers how s...
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Youth development in south africa
Youth Development in South Africa: Harnessing the Demographic Dividend is a compelling snapshot of thirty years of South Africa’s democratic dispensation and what it has meant for the youth of the country, as well as how its demographic dividend can be harnessed for a fairer society in the future.
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Youth engagement
This volume critically examines the multiple and contested meanings of ideal citizenship and reveal how children and youth craft active citizenship as they encounter and respond to the various institutions and organizations designed to encourage their civic and political development.
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Youth migration and the politics of wellbeing
This book examines the factors affecting the health and wellbeing of young people as they transition to adulthood under the shadow of migration control. Drawing on unique longitudinal data, it illuminates how they conceptualize wellbeing for themselves and others in contexts of prolonged and poli...
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Youth transitions out of state care
An intimate account of the personal and socioeconomic circumstances that affect state care leavers, this book voices the distinct yet interconnected experience of these young people to reinforce the increasingly prevalent Irish model.
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