Product Description: Drawing on a recent research study, this book discusses preventive health for children and the division of labour between parents and health visitors. It uses quotations from mothers and health visitors and focuses on health care in a multi-ethnic society...read more

Product Description: Using children's accounts as starting points, this book focuses on children as active negotiators of health at home and school. The author uses data collected from 5- and 9-year-olds, their mothers and primary school staff in one school...read more

Product Description: Children's health is usually studied in relation to health services, and their learning within the school service. And traditionally children are perceived as the objects of these services. Yet health experience crosses institutional settings, and takes place at home too...read more

Product Description: Social science research is a political activity. It intersects three interest groups: the researchers, the funders and policymakers, and the people whose lives and views are being explored. This text addresses the questions: whose interests are served by research?; for whom is it undertaken?; what research methods are appropriate?; and how can those researched find a voice in the research process? The authors consider inter-relations between theory and method and the processes of doing empirical research with disadvantaged people, from design through to dissemination...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: It is valuable reading for childhood sociologists and feminists, and for all those seeking to raise the social status of childhood. It is highly recommended to students of childhood studies, at all levels. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Argues the need for schools to examine the school environment and its effects on children's and staff's well-being.

Product Description: There is urgent need for adults to re-think their ideas about childhood. Sociological approaches to childhood are needed as key contributions to improve basic conceptual thinking about how society works; as a matter of social justice; and as theoretical bases for educational reforms...read more

Product Description: Over the past twenty years, the sociology of childhood has developed fast. In the UK and Europe, many studies now focus on the child as social agent, and the notion of the child as social construction - varying across times and places - has gained in popularity...read more