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First Cover -- Foreword -- Table of contents -- Children -- Enriching the Preschool Experiences of Children -- Table of Contents -- Key Conclusions from the Literature -- Socioeconomic Status and Child Development Outcomes -- Attachment and Relationships with Others -- The Neural System -- Cognitive and Language Competencies -- Social Context -- Transition to School: An Outcome and a Determinant -- Stories from the Front Lines -- Staying on Track -- Victoria Day Care Research Project -- Sesame Street -- Perry Preschool Project -- Canadian Community-Based Initiatives -- Policy Implications -- Family Support, Child Care and Early Childhood Education -- Universal and Specific Programs -- Measuring the Results -- Social and Economic Public Policies -- Summary of Policy Implications -- Bibliography -- Developing Resiliency in Childrenfrom Disadvantaged Populations -- Table of Contents -- Definition and Sources of Resiliency -- The Achievement of Resiliency in the Face of Disadvantage -- How Do the Risks Inherent in Disadvantage Undermine the Potential for Resiliency? -- Promoting Resiliency in the Face of Disadvantage: Success Stories -- Goal No. 1: From Conception through Delivery -- The Prevention of Preterm Delivery through Improved Prenatal Care in France -- The Montreal Diet Dispensary -- Goal No. 2. From Birth and for at Least Three Years -- Prenatal and Early Infancy Project (Olds) -- The Hawaii Healthy Start Program -- Staying on Track -- Goal No. 3. During the Preschool Years -- The Perry Preschool Project -- Goal No. 4. School-Based Programs -- The Ryerson Outreach/Ryerson Community Initiative -- Helping Children Adjust -- Cities in Schools -- Montreal Longitudinal-Experimental Study of Disruptive Kindergarten Boys -- Goal No. 5. Programs Designed to Mobilize Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods -- Better Beginnings, Better Futures.

This book is intended to inform both the general public and professionals working with immigrant children and adolescents about the importance and complexity of addressing their psychological issues and experiential challenges. The work covers the topic of immigrant children's mental health from multiple perspectives while maintaining a focus on developmental needs and identifying the specific problems posed by linguistic and cultural transition. The chapters present case studies and vignettes that serve to illustrate the topics, providing vivid depictions of mental health issues and highl

In the early years of the Republic, as Americans tried to determine what it meant to be an American, they also wondered what it meant to be an American child. A defensive, even fearful, approach to childhood gave way to a more optimistic campaign to integrate young Americans into the Republican experiment. In Children and Youth in a New Nation , historians unearth the experiences of and attitudes about children and youth during the decades following the American Revolution. Beginning with the revolution itself, the contributors explore a broad range of topics, from the ways in which American c

The theme of this volume is an outgrowth of one of the Section sponsored sessions at the 2006 ASA meetings in Montreal; "Children and Youth Speak for Themselves." The volume is a collection of articles from scholars who pay particular attention to children and/or adolescents' voices, interpretations, perspectives, and experiences within specific social and cultural contexts. Contributions include research stemming from a broad spectrum of methodological and theoretical orientations. This is a cutting-edge compilation of the most current child-centred scholarship on the sociology of c

This book is essential for anyone interested in the history of childhood and generational dynamics in Africa. This synthesis of a diverse and complex literature makes a strong case for the significance of age and generation as an analytic framework for African history. Duff has done a superb job of humanising the experiences of children by using fascinating, carefully selected case studies. It is both highly sophisticated and extremely accessible. Clive Glaser, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa This book balances an approachable historical overview with conceptual analysis of age, gender, and generation. Featuring insightful and diverse case studies drawn from oral traditions, memoirs, interdisciplinary scholarship, and other literature, Duffs parallel discussion of ideologies and experiences of childhood and youth demonstrates why Africa matters to these debates. Corrie Decker, University of California, Davis, USA This textbook introduces readers to the academic scholarship on the history of childhood and youth in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on the colonial and postcolonial eras. In a series of seven chapters, it addresses key themes in the historical scholarship, arguing that age serves as a useful category for historical analysis in African history. Just as race, class, and gender can be used to understand how African societies have been structured over time, so too age is a powerful tool for thinking about how power, youth, and seniority intersect and change over time. This is, then, a work of synthesis rather than of new research based on primary sources. This book will therefore introduce mainstream scholars of the history of childhood and youth to the literature on Africa, and scholars of youth in Africa to debates within the wider field of the history of children and youth. S.E. Duff is Assistant Professor of African and World History at Colby College, USA. The author of Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony: Dutch Reformed Church Evangelicalism and Colonial Childhood, 1860-1895 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), she is a historian of age and gender in nineteenth and twentieth-century South Africa and the British Empire.

Investing in Latino children and youth : volume introduction and overview /Lisa A. Gennetian and Marta Tiendo --Opportunity and place : Latino children and America's future /Daniel T. Lichter and Kennerh M. Johnson --From crisis to progress : housing and Latino youth since 2000 /Jacob S. Rugh -- Equitable access to high-quality early care and education : opportunites to better serve young Hispanic children and their families /Julia Menedz Smith, Danielle Crosby, and Suzanne M. Lyons --Taking an equity lens : reconceptualizing research on Latinx students' schooling experiences and educational outcomes /Claudia L. Galindo --Beyond the tipping point : searching for a new vision for Latino college success in the United States /Stella M. Flores, Tim Carroll, and Suzanne M. Lyons --Parenting contributions to Latinx children's development in the early years /Natasha J. Cabrera, Angelica Alonso, and Yu Chen --Gender and educational differentials in marital sorting of Hispanic young adults /Kate H. Choi and Marta Tienda --The health of Hispanic children from birth to emerging adulthood /Krista M. Perreira and Chenoa D. Allen --Access to health insurance and health care for Hispanic children in the United States /Krista M. Perreira, Chenoa D. Allen and Jonathan Oberlander --Understanding the influence of Latino diversity over child poverty in the United States /Lina Guzman, Dana Thomson and Renee Ryberg --Means-tested safety net programs and Hispanic families : evidence from medicaid, SNAP, and WIC /Marianne Bitler, Lisa A. Gennetian, Christina Gibson-Davis and Marcos A. Rangel.

Children and youth have tended to be under-reported in the historical scholarship. This collection of essays recasts the historical narrative by populating premodern Scottish communities from the thirteenth to the late eighteenth centuries with their lively experiences and voices. By examining medieval and early modern Scottish communities through the lens of age, the collection counters traditional assumptions that young people are peripheral to our understanding of the political, economic, and social contexts of the premodern era. The topics addressed fall into three main sections: the experience of being a child/adolescent; representations of the young; and the construction of the next generation. The individual essays examine the experience of the young at all levels of society, including princes and princesses, aristocratic and gentry youth, urban young people, rural children, and those who came to Scotland as slaves; they draw on evidence from art, personal correspondence, material culture, song, legal and government records, work and marriage contracts, and literature

This is a book that students and professionals from different disciplines and backgrounds, including from academia, international organisations, non-governmental organisations, the medical community, governments, etc., will find to be a valuable resource in their quest to learn more about an area of study that has long been neglected

Two prominent themes of the volume are adolescents' transition to adulthood and children's time-use issues. Several chapters address each of these issues, including one examining children's labor in Senegal. Two ethnographic studies are included: one analyzes student-teacher interaction in an urban high-school math class, while the other examines friendship development and maintenance of early elementary-aged African American girls. The volume also includes a policy analysis of medical insurance provision for low income children, and a response to an earlier chapter on children's rights that appeared in Volume 8.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution -- 2. Martha Jefferson and the American Revolution in Virginia -- 3. In Franklin's Footsteps -- 4. French and American Childhoods -- 5. Growing up on the Middle Ground -- 6. A Child Shall Lead Them -- 7. "A Few Thoughts in Vindication of Female Eloquence" -- 8. "Pictures of the Vicious ultimately overcome by misery and shame" -- 9. Children of the Public -- 10. Schooling and Child Health in Antebellum New England -- 11. A Teenager Goes Visiting -- 12. "Though the Means Were Scanty" -- 13. A Stolen Life Excerpts from the Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself (1847) -- Questions for Consideration -- Suggested Readings -- About the Contributors -- Index