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Global Changes in Children's Lives

Uwe P Gielen author Sunghun Kim author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:20th Dec '18

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Compares the nature of childhood in four representative societies differing in their subsistence activities.

This Element compares the nature of childhood in four representative societies differing in their subsistence activities: bands of Australian hunter-gatherers, Tibetan nomadic pastoralists, peasants and farmers residing in Maya villages and towns, and South Korean students growing up in a digital information society.This Element compares the nature of childhood in four representative societies differing in their subsistence activities: bands of Australian hunter-gatherers, Tibetan nomadic pastoralists, peasants and farmers residing in Maya villages and towns, and South Korean students growing up in a digital information society. In addition, the Element traces a variety of intertwined global changes that have led to sharply reduced child mortality rates, shrinking family sizes, contested gender roles, increased marriage ages, long-term enrollment of children (especially girls in educational institutions), and the formation of 'glocal' identities.

ISBN: 9781108461634

Dimensions: 230mm x 150mm x 5mm

Weight: 1500g

75 pages