2nd Edition
Key Issues in Childhood and Youth Studies
This fully revised and expanded second edition of Key Issues in Childhood and Youth Studies presents an informed and critical commentary on a range of key issues related to children and childhood, from birth to eighteen years.
Challenging current orthodoxies within the adult world on the nature of childhood, it is an essential text for students of childhood and youth studies as well as those studying relevant professional qualifications in social work, teaching and health. Exploring ideas from the historical development of childhood to the demonising of youth, it is divided into five clearly defined sections, each with their own editorial introduction which highlights the key themes: Creating Childhood, The Developing Child, Children at Risk, The Politics of Childhood, Bordered Childhood and International Perspectives.
Containing 15 newly written chapters and three revised pieces, this invaluable textbook provides an overview of childhood and youth studies and encourages students to think about the issues discussed and to develop their own ideas. Each chapter contains student activities, key concept boxes, recommended further reading and a reflection exercise.
Part One - Creating Childhood
Chapter One – Notions of Children and Childhood
Clara Kassem
Chapter Two – The First 1001 Days and Child Development
Aisling Culshaw and Sarah Yearsley
Chapter Three – Children, Childhoods and Children’s Literature
Elizabeth Taylor
Part Two - The Developing Child
Chapter Four – The Psychology of the “Disengaged”
Claire Kinsella, Linda Kaye and Dave Putwain
Chapter Five – Language Development
Clara Kassem
Chapter Six – Gender, Sexuality and Education
Bee Hughes and Graham Downes
Part Three - Children at Risk
Chapter Seven – Children’s Mental Health
John Harrison
Chapter Eight – The Importance of Communication with Children in Social Work and the Lessons Learned
Vida Douglas and Julie Fourie
Chapter Nine – When a Parent Goes to Prison: Reflections from a Researcher-Practitioner
Lorna Brookes
Chapter Ten – Care Experienced Children and Mental Health Services: Fundamentals to Reflect Upon when Connecting with Children and Young People who have Experienced the Care System
Simon Nielson
Chapter Eleven – Access to Education for Care Leavers: Is Post-16 Education Accessible to Those Navigating the Care Cliff?
Chantelle Lunt
Part Four - Politics of Childhood
Chapter Twelve – Childhood: Testing to Destruction
Alex Snowdon
Chapter Thirteen – Children’s Human Rights: Still a Work in Progress?
Heather Montgomery
Chapter Fourteen – Intersectionality, Democracy and Education
Graham Downes and Bee Hughes
Chapter Fifteen – Secularism, Islamophobia, and the Erasure of Muslim Identities in Education: Reflections on the Michaela School Prayer Ban and the Trojan Horse Affair
Lila Tamea
Part Five - Bordered Childhoods
Chapter Sixteen – Dancing on the Fault Lines: A Lebanese Childhood
Rania Hafez
Chapter Seventeen – Palestinian Youth Under Conditions of Occupation
Michael Lavalette, Tracy Ramsey and Mohammed Amara
Chapter Eighteen – Undocumented: Insecure Immigration Status and Its Impact on Children and Youth
Jo Wilding
Chapter Nineteen – ‘Working’ Through the Pandemic: Local Migration, Children’s Lives and Education in Nepal
Angela Daly
Biography
Elizabeth Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Education, Childhood and Communities at Liverpool John Moores University. Liz has over 30 years of experience of advocating for and supporting children, both as a Primary School teacher and lecturer. She was an editor for Key Issues in Childhood and Youth Studies (2010). Her research interests include creative pedagogies such as drama for learning, children’s literature and home education.
Bee Hughes (they/them) is an interdisciplinary researcher and Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture, Communication at Liverpool John Moores University. Bee’s work spans contemporary art practice, art history, visual cultures and cultural studies. They’ve taught several subjects in Higher Education, including Graphic Design and Illustration, Fine Art, Art History, Education Studies, Sociology and Media and Cultural Studies. Their research examines how everyday visual cultures and fine arts represent and (re)construct menstrual norms.
