Contemporary Childhood - Hardcover

MacBlain, Sean; Dunn, Jill; Luke, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1473951992 ISBN 13: 9781473951990

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

Contemporary Childhood brings readers up-to-date with the latest developments and keys issues from around the globe and explains how these changes are impacting on practice in early years and primary classrooms.

Key issues in contemporary childhood are explored through three sections on The Child, The Family, and Emerging Trends, with topics including:

• the "Digital Child" and the rise of new technologies
• children’s security and the impact of poverty, austerity and conflict
• children’s happiness, mental-health, and wellbeing
• the changing nature of families including LGBT homes, refugees, and asylum seekers
• the challenges of multi-agency working

The pace of change in early childhood can be daunting, but this book helps students and practitioners understand the variety of issues affecting children around the world.

About this title

About the Author

Sean MacBlain PhD is a distinguished author and academic whose publications include: MacBlain (Sage, 2014) How Children Learn; Gray and MacBlain (Sage, 2015) Learning Theories in Childhood, now going into its 3rd edition; MacBlain, Long and Dunn, (Sage, 2015) Dyslexia, Literacy and Inclusion: Child-centred Perspectives; MacBlain, Dunn and Luke (Sage, 2017) Contemporary Childhood. A number of Sean’s publications are used by students, academics and practitioners worldwide. Sean is currently a senior academic at Plymouth Marjon University where he previously held the positions of Research Lead for the Centre for Professional and Educational Research, Research Coordinator for the School of Education and Deputy Chair of the Ethics Committee. Sean also worked previously as a Senior Lecturer in Education and Developmental Psychology at Stranmillis University College, Queens University Belfast. In addition to this, Sean has also worked for over twenty years as an educational psychologist and continues in this field as an independent practitioner. Sean is married to Angela and lives in Somerset, England.  

Sean MacBlain will be discussing key ideas from Contemporary Childhood in the SAGE Early Years Masterclass, a free professional development experience hosted by Kathy Brodie. To sign up, or for more information, click here.

 

 

Review

This important book attempts to place the developing child within the many worlds they exist, to give us a better understanding of both the most obvious influences on them, and also the more subtle. Never shying away from the controversial issues, this book is not about an ideal child development story, it is about how modern children are growing up in a world that is often very alien to the one practitioners grew up in, culminating in the final chapter that explores contemporary issues in our global society, such as poverty, obesity, sexualisation, mental health, media, materialism and more. Author: Neil Henty

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1473951992
• ISBN 13: 9781473951990
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256