Author : Maggie Black
Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
FROST (copy 1) From the John Holmes Library collection.
Author : Kit Kelen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 25,13 MB
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136248943
This book explores the meaning of nation or nationalism in children’s literature and how it constructs and represents different national experiences. The contributors discuss diverse aspects of children’s literature and film from interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches, ranging from the short story and novel to science fiction and fantasy from a range of locations including Canada, Australia, Taiwan, Norway, America, Italy, Great Britain, Iceland, Africa, Japan, South Korea, India, Sweden and Greece. The emergence of modern nation-states can be seen as coinciding with the historical rise of children’s literature, while stateless or diasporic nations have frequently formulated their national consciousness and experience through children’s literature, both instructing children as future citizens and highlighting how ideas of childhood inform the discourses of nation and citizenship. Because nation and childhood are so intimately connected, it is crucial for critics and scholars to shed light on how children’s literatures have constructed and represented historically different national experiences. At the same time, given the massive political and demographic changes in the world since the nineteenth century and the formation of nation states, it is also crucial to evaluate how the national has been challenged by changing national languages through globalization, international commerce, and the rise of English. This book discusses how the idea of childhood pervades the rhetoric of nation and citizenship, and how children and childhood are represented across the globe through literature and film.
Author : Poultney Bigelow
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Blacks
ISBN :
Author : Tamara Starblanket
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 0998694789
Originally approved as a master of laws thesis by a respected Canadian university, this book tackles one of the most compelling issues of our time—the crime of genocide—and whether in fact it can be said to have occurred in relation to the many Original Nations on Great Turtle Island now claimed by a state called Canada. It has been hailed as groundbreaking by many Indigenous and other scholars engaged with this issue, impacting not just Canada but states worldwide where entrapped Indigenous nations face absorption by a dominating colonial state. Starblanket unpacks Canada’s role in the removal of cultural genocide from the Genocide Convention, though the disappearance of an Original Nation by forced assimilation was regarded by many states as equally genocidal as destruction by slaughter. Did Canada seek to tailor the definition of genocide to escape its own crimes which were then even ongoing? The crime of genocide, to be held as such under current international law, must address the complicated issue of mens rea (not just the commission of a crime, but the specific intent to do so). This book permits readers to make a judgment on whether or not this was the case. Starblanket examines how genocide was operationalized in Canada, focused primarily on breaking the intergenerational transmission of culture from parents to children. Seeking to absorb the new generations into a different cultural identity—English-speaking, Christian, Anglo-Saxon, termed Canadian—Canada seized children from their parents, and oversaw and enforced the stripping of their cultural beliefs, languages and traditions, replacing them by those still in process of being established by the emerging Canadian state.
Author : Martyn Barrett
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1135425892
This book provides a state-of-the-art account of how people's subjective sense of national identity, and attitudes towards countries and national groups, develop through the course of childhood and adolescence. It offers a comprehensive review of the research which has been conducted into: . children's understanding of nations as geographical territories and as political, historical and cultural communities . children's knowledge, beliefs and feelings about the people who belong to different national groups . children's attitudes towards, and emotional attachment to, their own country and national group. The authors elaborate on the developmental patterns that have been found to emerge, contextualized by a consideration and evaluation of the theoretical frameworks which can be used to explain these patterns. Written by the leading international authority in this field, and reporting (in collaboration with his colleagues) the findings from two major transnational research projects, this book will be invaluable to postgraduate students and researchers working in this field. The book will also be of great benefit to undergraduate students taking courses in Developmental Psychology, the Sociology of Childhood, and Education.
Author : Charles Leslie Glenn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 0815314698
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 13,80 MB
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 110161532X
In Child of All Nations, the reader is immediately swept up by a story that is profoundly feminist, devastatingly anticolonialist—and full of heartbreak, suspense, love, and fury. Pramoedya immerses the reader in a world that is astonishing in its vividness: the cultural whirlpool that was the Dutch East Indies of the 1890s. A story of awakening, it follows Minke, the main character of This Earth of Mankind, as he struggles to overcome the injustice all around him. Pramoedya's full literary genius is evident in the brilliant characters that populate this world: Minke's fragile Mixed-Race wife; a young Chinese revolutionary; an embattled Javanese peasant and his impoverished family; the French painter Jean Marais, to name just a few.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 2004-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309166608
Children's health has clearly improved over the past several decades. Significant and positive gains have been made in lowering rates of infant mortality and morbidity from infectious diseases and accidental causes, improved access to health care, and reduction in the effects of environmental contaminants such as lead. Yet major questions still remain about how to assess the status of children's health, what factors should be monitored, and the appropriate measurement tools that should be used. Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health provides a detailed examination of the information about children's health that is needed to help policy makers and program providers at the federal, state, and local levels. In order to improve children's health-and, thus, the health of future generations-it is critical to have data that can be used to assess both current conditions and possible future threats to children's health. This compelling book describes what is known about the health of children and what is needed to expand the knowledge. By strategically improving the health of children, we ensure healthier future generations to come.
Author : Ronald Harrill
Publisher : Ronald Harrill Enterprises
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2020-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780988308206
For the past 500 years, the identities of powerful ancient black nations have remained hidden among the pages of the Bible's Old Testament. These nations led the ancient world towards civilization, invented writing, erected phenomenal monuments, conducted extensive commercial trade and built dams, reservoirs and canal systems to manage large rivers. Yet, each of these empires' identities was reinterpreted by the modern world for social conveniences. These nations continue to suffer from an identity theft crisis in misleading representations of their people in pictures, movies, paintings, social media and books. "Children of Genesis" takes a wide-angle view of the people, places and events from the Old Testament era by using historical lenses instead of traditional religious filters. This book intends to showcase the ancient black nations for the world to see, study, appreciate and better understand.
Author : Aitza Haddad Nunez
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 2021-02-18
Category :
ISBN :
Law doesn't need to be complicated. However, it is! In addition, ignorance of the law doesn't exempt from responsibility. So why is the law not included as part of the primary education process in this country?Friendly Law wants to change this dynamic as a means to break with the school to prison pipeline, and with many other social injustices and inequalities. And by buying this book, and integrating law as part of a kid's learning process, you can be part of the change too! The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) requires education to enhance the cultural identity, language, and values of the child from which community it emerges. UNESCO suggested in its recommendation on participation in cultural life in 1976 the following: "culture is not merely an accumulation of works and knowledge which an elite produces, collects and conserves in order to place it within the reach of all... [Rather], the concept of culture has been broadened to include all forms of creativity and expression of groups or individuals."Although the United States has signed the UNCRC, it is the only United Nations member state that is not a party to it. However, Friendly Law believes that as the leader of the free world, main driver of both democracy and globalization, and primary guarantor of the current global system, the United States should make a greater effort in making sure the people of the nation knows and understand their rights. Especially the children of the nation! And with this book, we can begin the process!*Proceeds from the book will be used to help Friendly Law to continue working on it's mission and vision.
