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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783819103321

Autore

Prout Alan (Alan Stanley)

Titolo

The future of childhood : towards the interdisciplinary study of children / / Alan Prout

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeFalmer, , 2005

ISBN

1-903458-10-2

1-134-51866-8

1-134-51867-6

1-280-32339-6

0-203-32311-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Collana

The future of childhood series

Classificazione

71.35

Disciplina

305.230904

Soggetti

Children - Social conditions - 20th century

Children - Social conditions - 21st century

Children - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Changing childhood in a globalizing world; Childhood studies and the modern mentality; The dualities of the social; Childhood, nature and culture; The future of childhood; Afterword; References; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Alan Prout discusses the place of children and childhood in the late modernity. He argues that there appears to be a greater cultural confusion about the form that childhood should take.