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Children's health, the nation's wealth : assessing and improving child health
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ISBN: 0309091187 9786610176588 128017658X 0309533325 9780309533324 9780309091183 0309166608 Year: 2004 Publisher: Washington, DC : National Academies Press,

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Taking care of education
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ISBN: 1280488387 9786613583611 1907969780 9781907969782 9781280488382 1904787177 9781904787174 Year: 2004 Publisher: London National Children''s Bureau

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An evaluation of the Taking Care of Education project, which aims to support a small number of local authorities in deploying a range of policies to improve the educational achievements of looked after children

Rethinking childhood
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ISBN: 0813535301 128227273X 9786613815132 0813558328 9780813535302 9780813533643 0813533643 9780813533650 0813533651 9780813558325 6613815136 Year: 2004 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press

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Being a child in American society can be problematic. Twenty percent of American children live in poverty, parents are divorcing at high rates, and educational institutions are not always fulfilling their goals. Against this backdrop, children are often patronized or idealized by adults. Rarely do we look for the strengths within children that can serve as the foundation for growth and development. In Rethinking Childhood, twenty contributors, coming from the disciplines of anthropology, government, law, psychology, education, religion, philosophy, and sociology, provide a multidisciplinary view of childhood by listening and understanding the ways children shape their own futures. Topics include education, poverty, family life, divorce, neighborhood life, sports, the internet, and legal status. In all these areas, children have both voice and agency. They construct their own social networks and social reality, sort out their own values, and assess and cope with the perplexing world around them. The contributors present ideas that lead not only to new analyses but also to innovative policy applications. Taken together, these essays develop a new paradigm for understanding childhood as children experience these years. This paradigm challenges readers to develop fresh ways of listening to children’s voices that enable both children and adults to cross the barriers of age, experience, and stereotyping that make communication difficult. A volume in the Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies, edited by Myra Bluebond-Langner.

Youth in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 1281949922 9786611949921 1846152798 1903153131 Year: 2004 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : Boydell & Brewer,

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Evidence for childhood and youth from the sixth century to the sixteenth, but with particular emphasis on later medieval England. Moving on from the legacy of Ariès, these essays address evidence for childhood and youth from the sixth century to the sixteenth, but with particular emphasis on later medieval England. The contents include the idea of childhoodin the writing of Gregory of Tours, skaldic verse narratives and their implications for the understanding of kingship, Jewish communities of Northern Europe for whom children represented the continuity of a persecuted faith, children in the records of the northern Italian Humiliati, the meaning of romance narratives centred around the departure of the hero or heroine from the natal hearth, the age at which later medieval English youngsters left home, how far they travelled and where they went, literary sources revealing the politicisation of the idea of the child, and the response of young, affluent females to homiletic literature and the iconography of the virgin martyrs in the later middle ages. Contributors: FRANCES E. ANDREWS, HELEN COOPER, P.J.P.GOLDBERG, SIMCHA GOLDIN, EDWARD F. JAMES, JUDITH JESCH, KIM M. PHILLIPS, MIKE TYLER, ROSALYNN VOADEN.

Baby and child heroes in ancient Greece
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ISBN: 0252029291 Year: 2004 Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press,

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Multiple lenses, multiple images : perspectives on the child across time, space and disciplines
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ISBN: 0802036309 0802084699 0802089313 9786611992484 1442677457 1281992488 9781442677456 9780802089311 Year: 2004 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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"Covering a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, the essays in Multiple Lenses, Multiple Images are oriented around the idea that images of childhood can be understood within three dimensions: time, space, and discipline." "Multiple Lenses, Multiple Images is intended to deepen and expand the collaborative, interdisciplinary discourse on children and childhood through reflections not just on what is known about children, but on how it has been learned."--Jacket

A different kind of care : the social pediatrics approach
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ISBN: 1282862979 9786612862977 0773572295 9780773572294 0773528008 9780773528000 0773528016 9780773528017 0773528008 9780773528000 9781282862975 6612862971 Year: 2004 Publisher: Montreal ; Ithaca : Published for the Montreal Children's Hospital by McGill-Queen's University Press,

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Social pediatrics complements the traditional practice of pediatrics by creating a network within the community that acts to empower children and their families. By enlisting the aid not only of doctors and nurses but teachers, lawyers, social workers, psychologists, politicians, family, friends, and neighbours, the physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs of children can be met, assuring every child of a loving and stimulating environment, quality education, and the opportunity for growth and development. The first part of "A Different Kind of Care" describes the principles and concepts of the social pediatrics approach. The second part tells the stories of children living in appalling conditions who suffer from various forms of trauma and rejection. The book also includes a number of case studies that demonstrate the need for and effectiveness of the theory. Julien shows that such children, if given a chance, can not only become healthy but find new meaning in life.

Youth in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 1903153131 9781846152795 Year: 2004 Publisher: Woodbridge York Medieval Press

Representations of childhood and youth in early China
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ISBN: 0804747318 Year: 2004 Publisher: Stanford (Calif.): Stanford university press

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