{"product_id":"whose-childhood-is-it-the-roles-of-children-adults-and-policy-makers-9780826499813","title":"Whose Childhood Is It?: The Roles of Children, Adults, and Policy Makers","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Richard Eke\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Continuum\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Continuum\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Children's Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe purpose of this book is to promote a thoughtful engagement with key issues and theories that inform our understanding of childhood. Readers will enjoy, and be provoked by, a sophisticated analysis of the role and function of childhood in twenty-first century Britain, which can be used as a springboard for further enquiry and exploration. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo intertwined themes permeate the text: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e - Children's sense of self and adults' temporal and cultural fabrications of childhood, and the articulation of these with policy and provision for young children. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e - Young children and representation: how they are represented, the sense they make of such representations and their own representational activity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhose Childhood Is It? intends to turn readers away from our collective tendency to simplify the experiences of young children and replace this with a fuller, more complex, and more realistic understanding of the social dynamic that constitutes childhood today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book takes a user-friendly approach, with key questions and reflection boxes throughout as well as chapter summaries and suggested further reading. It will provide a rich resource for students of Early Childhood Studies, and for Early Years professionals and those training to be Early Years practitioners.","brand":"Continuum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45088397557911,"sku":"9780826499813","price":5102.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780826499813.webp?v=1767267350","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/whose-childhood-is-it-the-roles-of-children-adults-and-policy-makers-9780826499813","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}