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Handbook of Children and Youth Studies

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Johanna Wyn

    1. Youth Research Centre, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Helen Cahill

    1. Youth Research Centre, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Discusses the scientific debates on the boundaries between childhood, youth and adulthood
  • Recognizes the changing social context of the lives of children and young people
  • Takes a themed approach in discussing the international perspectives and different conceptual approaches
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (64 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Thinking About Children and Youth

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Thinking About Childhood and Youth

      • Johanna Wyn
      Pages 3-20

    3. Deconstructing Discourses to Rupture Fairytales of the “Ideal” Childhood

      • Kylie Smith
      Pages 21-33

    4. The Promises of Empowered Girls

      • Nancy Lesko, Mary Ann Chacko, Shenila S. Khoja-Moolji
      Pages 35-48

    5. Thinking About Children: How Does It Influence Policy and Practice?

      • Nicola Taylor, Anne B. Smith
      Pages 49-62

    6. The Politics of Non-belonging in the Developing World

      • David Everatt
      Pages 63-78

    7. Ways of Thinking About Young People in Participatory Interview Research

      • Rob Pattman
      Pages 79-92

  3. Well-Being

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Approaches to Understanding Youth Well-Being

      • Helen Cahill
      Pages 95-113

    3. Protecting and Promoting Young People’s Social and Emotional Health in Online and Offline Contexts

      • Donna Cross, Amy Barnes
      Pages 115-126

    4. Reconsidering Youth Well-Being as Fluid and Relational: A Dynamic Process at the Intersection of Their Physical and Social Geographies

      • Lisa Wexler, Kristen Ali Eglinton
      Pages 127-137

    5. Responding Effectively to Support the Mental Health and Well-Being of Young People

      • Debra Rickwood
      Pages 139-154

    6. Young People, Pleasure, and the Normalization of Pornography: Sexual Health and Well-Being in a Time of Proliferation?

      • Lyn Harrison, Debbie Ollis
      Pages 155-167

    7. Who’s Learning or Whose Learning? Critical Perspectives on the Idea Youth-Led Policy-Making Related to Gender-Based Violence in a South African Classroom

      • Claudia Mitchell
      Pages 169-181
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About this book

This handbook gives a new scientific perspective to youth and childhood studies as multi scientific and interdisciplinary subjects which as such have not yet found their own framing in a particular discipline. It provides theoretical and methodological key debates and issues that develop and add an understanding of childhood and youth research discipline from a broader perspective. The Handbook on Children and Youth Studies draws on current thinking, but also challenges theoretical and conceptual orthodoxies in the field, drawing on interdisciplinary thinking and critical perspectives. It focuses on childhood and youth to address the emerging consensus that the boundaries between childhood, youth and adulthood are blurred. The view that defining youth and childhood largely in terms of problem topics is out dated. Instead, the handbook focuses on 13 themes that are open to international perspectives and to different conceptual approaches. Each theme is edited by a pair of field editors,thereby capturing a plurality of views. The 13 themes as a starting point are globally timely and they need scientific debates on the boundaries between childhoods, youth and adulthood. This handbook will meet the needs of childhood and youth researchers and the academics in the field. It recognizes the changing social context of the lives of children and young people, while developing theoretical frameworks and discussing about the core substantive issues of Children and Youth Studies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Youth Research Centre, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Johanna Wyn, Helen Cahill

About the editors

Professor Johanna Wyn is director of the Youth Research Centre, University of Melbourne, in Australia. She specializes in longitudinal research on young people, documenting their transitions across the dimensions of education, work, well-being, relationships and family life. Prof. Wyn’s research is policy-focused and she is interested in developing new research and policy approaches to chronic patterns of disadvantage amongst youth. Her other areas of interest include gender, social policy and identity.

Associate Professor Helen Cahill is the deputy director of the Youth Research Centre, University of Melbourne, in Australia. She teaches in the Master of Education and the Master of Teaching programs, coordinating subjects which address youth well-being. Associate Prof. Cahill specializes in the use of participatory methods in research, education and community development projects and has a special interest in the use of drama as a tool in participatory research and transformative education and in projects which position young people as active agents.

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