Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/gFYnN4F The Future of Childhood By: Alan Prout Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415256759, 0415256755 eText ISBN: 9781134518661, 1134518668 Edition: 1st Pages: 184 Copyright year: 2004 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.98 USD SKU 9781134518661R90 In this ground-breaking book, Alan Prout discusses the place of children and childhood in modern society. He critically examines 'the new social studies of childhood', reconsidering some of its key assumptions and positions and arguing that childhood is heterogeneous and complex. The study of childhood requires a broad set of intellectual resources and an interdisciplinary approach. Chapters include: the changing social and cultural character of contemporary childhood and the weakening boundary between adulthood and childhood a look back at the emergence of childhood studies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the nature/culture dichotomy the role of material artefacts and technologies in the construction of contemporary childhood. This book is essential reading for students and academics in the field of childhood studies, sociology and education. Additional ISBNs 9780203323113, 9786610323395, 9781280323393, 9781134518661, 9781134518623, 9781134518678, 0203323114, 6610323399, 1280323396, 1134518668, 1134518625, 1134518676, 9780415256742, 9780415256759, 9781902230108, 0415256747, 0415256755, 1902230108
