Overview
- 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)
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Thinking About Children and Youth
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Well-Being
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Bodies
Keywords
- Childhood, youth and young adulthood
- Digital communications and youth
- Juvenile justice
- Sexualities Gender and youth
- Social Justice and children
- Youth activism
- Youth development
- citizenship and youth
- identity and youth
- learning and youth
- place and youth
- structural disadvantage and youth
- well-being and youth
- youth and spirituality
- youth labour
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Children and Youth Studies
Editors: Johanna Wyn, Helen Cahill
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-15-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-4451-14-7Published: 24 March 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-981-4451-15-4Published: 18 February 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 927
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology, general, Gender Studies, Early Childhood Education, Developmental Psychology, Gender Studies