The Erosion of Childhood


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First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.




The Erosion of Childhood


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How can child care be structured to protect both the interests of children and the rights of women? Must children suffer the "loss" of their childhood through institutional care? Polakow uses her observations of pre-school centers—including profit-run, federally funded, community, and Montessori institutions—to open the "windows of daycare."




The Erosion of Childhood


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How can child care be structured to protect both the interests of children and the rights of women? Must children suffer the "loss" of their childhood through institutional care? Polakow uses her observations of pre-school centers-including profit-run, federally funded, community, and Montessori institutions-to open the "windows of daycare."




The Erosion of Childhood


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Too Much Too Soon?


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This title tackles the burning question of how to nurture young children's well-being and learning to reverse the erosion of childhood.




Too Much, Too Soon?


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How to nurture young children's well-being and learning to reverse the erosion of childhood? Children's lives have been speeded up by commercialisation, 'adultification', and the government's 'nappy curriculum' which 'schoolifies' them and pushes quasi-formal learning too soon. Now, in twenty-three hard-hitting chapters, leading educators, researchers, policy makers and parents advocate alternative ways ahead for slowing childhood, better policy-making and, above all, the 'right learning at the right time' in children's growth ? learning when they are developmentally ready.







Cracking Up


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Explains how weather and water wear away rock and includes two experiments to assist in understanding how erosion works.




Children, Childhood and English Society, 1880-1990


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Unique guide to the main developments in adult-child relations during the last one hundred years.




Invisibly Blighted


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Children carry the weight of other people's expectations on their shoulders, and in the technological age that represents a bigger burden than it ever has before. This book is a manifesto for a different digital future for children in which their rights are respected and their identities are free. The authors explore new ways of understanding children's risk, schooling, biometrics, privacy issues, and technology innovation. Aimed at anyone who has sensed the cultural shift in childhood currently taking place, this book helps readers think more deeply about what it means to be a child in the digital world today.