Conflicts in childhood / / edited by Miriam Damrow and Helen Hearn.

• TeilnehmendeR: Damrow, Miriam,; Hearn, Helen,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, England : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Childhood is not merely a simple developmental stage prior to adulthood but rather a complex, changeable concept that is of interest and debated by international scholars from diverse disciplinary fields. One emerging debate is the perceived conflicts in childhood. Some of these are from adults representations of children, for example in literature, law and education to the practical and relational conflicts children experience at school and at home between peers, siblings and others. This volume presents a collection of these conflicts in childhood from interdisciplinary perspectives. Consideration is given to children’s rights and freedom, childhood relationships, gender, children’s representation in media and policies and politics about children.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Miriam Damrow and Helen Hearn -- International Institutions Guarding the Rights of the Child / Marta Prucnal-Wójcik -- The Right of the Child To Be Heard and the Question of Maturity: A Recursive Approach to Participation / Daniel Stoecklin and Jennifer Caseldine-Bracht -- Socialization and Freedom: The Problem of Childhood in the Cases of Peter Pan, Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland and the Chinese Fantasy Monkey / Shiqin Chen -- ‘Surfeits of Pathological Piety’: Defining and Denying Childhood in Early Children’s Literature / Richard C. Burke -- Contemporary Policy: Children and Young People’s Workforce in Crisis as Schools are Directed to Return to So-Called Traditional Educational Values / Doug Martin and Ally Dunhill -- Oversized Loads: Children Parentification in Low-Income Families and the Underlying Parent-Child Dynamics / Li Ping Chee and Esther C. L. Goh -- When Does Childhood End? / Marit Netland -- Child Protection and Children’s Sexuality in Germany / Miriam K. Damrow -- Girls’ Relationships with Others at Primary and Secondary School: How They Affect Bullying and Coping Strategies Used / Helen Hearn -- ‘Miss in Her Teens’: Parenting Adolescent Gentlewomen in Eighteenth-Century England and Virginia / Cathleene B. Hellier -- Children’s Socialization in the Lithuanian Family: Gender and Religious Identities / Rasa Račiūnaitė-Paužuolienė -- An Exploratory Study on Parents’ Relationship with Siblings of Children with Autism / Gina W. L. Chan and Esther C. L. Goh -- The Role of Children’s Agency in the Dynamics between Parents and Their Children diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) / Hui Mei Wong and Esther C. L. Goh -- Sexual and Physical Defiance in Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John / Noora Shamsi Bahar -- Portrait of the Child as a Young Artist / Wendy C. Turgeon -- Sensei in the Picture: Teachers and Pupils in Japanese School Album Photographs (1942-2010) / Aurore Montoya -- Looking through Landscapes of Technology: Impact of Virtual Worlds in Children's Lives / Abílio Oliveira , Ricardo Dias and Bráulio Alturas -- We Need to Talk about Ambivalence toward the Child in Contemporary Literary Fiction: A Case Study of Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk about Kevin and Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child / Elizabeth Jackson.