Abstract
The Handbook of Childhood and Youth Studies provides a comprehensive introduction to this exciting field of scholarship. This handbook challenges the dominant tendency to take a reductive problem-centric view of children and youth. It does this by emphasizing contemporary themes of thinking about children and young people, including Social Justice, Place, Well-Being, Citizenship, Leaming, Identity, Time and Space, Labor, Bodies, Spirituality, and Play. The authors are drawn from 14 countries, providing important insights about children and young people in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and the United Kingdom, North America, South America, Africa, and South Africa. A conscious decision has b..
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