Childhood can only be understood in relation to the multitude of social factors which surround it. This accessible text explores childrens place within society through an examination of the different contexts within which a child exists. It begins by looking at the child within the family then goes on to examine the child within the educational setting the community the nation & the global perspective. The childs own perspective is explored recognising children as social agents in their own right. Finally it examines the current climate making links with Every Child Matters & considers todays public perceptions of childhood. ...

This book is intended to be a guide to the burgeoning literature on the history of childhood. Harry Hendrick reviews the most important debates & the main findings of a number of historians on a range of topics including the changing social constructions of childhood child-parent relations social policy schooling leisure & the thesis that modern childhood is disappearing. The intention of this concise study is to provide readers with a reliable account of the evolution of some of the most important developments in adult-child relations during the last one hundred years. The author draws his material not only from historians but also from sociologists anthropologists psychologists & childrens rights activists. Thus he successfully shows how much of our modern understanding of childhood & of children results from both an historical & a social scientific understanding. ...

What an inspirational book! I have been a head teacher for twenty years & this is the best book on primary education that I have ever read
- Bob Garton Head Teacher London. This is the most thorough research-based analysis of primary schools I have seen in over two decades of reporting on education. It should carry the testimonial This book should change English primary schools forever
- Mike Baker formerly Senior BBC Education Correspondent. There is a simple account of the Cambridge Primary Review which is essentially about awe & wonder: it is a formidable achievement
- Andrew Pollard " British Educational Research Journal". " Children their World their Education" is the definitive text for students teachers researchers educational leaders & all who are interested in primary education. As the culmination of the Cambridge Primary Review the most comprehensive enquiry into English primary education for half a century its publication provoked instant & dramatic headlines. Widespread support from teachers & eminent public figures demonstrated that the book had identified the issues that really mattered. Ministerial unease showed that here were findings that politicians could not ignore. But Children their World their Education is much more than a report. It is an unrivalled educational compendium that systematically covers the issues that are central to the daily work of students teachers & heads. For trainee teachers on undergraduate & postgraduate courses it effectively maps the territory of primary education & provides the context information & insight which are essential to the development of classroom skill. Its vast range of carefully evaluated evidence makes it a core resource for those undertaking research & advanced study. Its direct engagement with the policy process during a period of unprecedented change makes it an indispensable tool for policy analysis. It places Englands education system in the global context & combines evidence on recent developments with a vision of how primary education should be. Part 1 sets the scene & tracks primary education policy since the 1960s. Part 2 examines childrens development & learning their needs & aspirations & their lives in a diverse society & fragile world. Part 3 explores what goes on in schools from the vital early years to educational aims & values the curriculum pedagogy & classroom practice assessment standards & school organisation. Part 4 deals with the system as a whole: educational ages & stages the work & training of primary teachers school leadership local authorities funding governance & policy. Part 5 pulls everything together with 78 conclusions & 75 recommendations for policy & practice. Companion

Volume: " The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys" is edited by Robin Alexander with Christine Doddington John Gray Linda Hargreaves & Ruth Kershner."




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An invaluable companion for all practitioners involved in private law proceedings under the Children Act 1989. It provides both a detailed widely researched analysis of substantive law & a clear guide to the relevant procedure. This new edition has been thoroughly revised throughout & takes account of all recent case-law & important procedural developments such as the introduction of the revised Private Law Programme. The extensive text is supplemented by fully updated appendices containing essential statutory & other materials. ...

This book investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood & the actual experience of being a child & assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years. Hugh Cunningham tells an engaging story of the development of ideas about childhood from the Renaissance to the present including Locke Rosseau Wordsworth & Freud revealing considerable differences in the way western societites have understood & valued childhood over time. His survey of parent/child relationships uncovers evidence of parental love care & in the frequent cases of child death grief throughout the period concluding that there was as much continuity as change in the actual relations of children & adults across these five centuries. For undergraduate courses in History of the Family European Social History History of Children & Gender History. ...

When Henry VIII died in 1547 he left three highly intelligent children to succeed him in turn to be followed if their lines failed by the descendants of his sister Mary Tudor. Children of England begins at the point where Alison Wier's bestseller The Six Wives of Henry VIII came to an end & covers the period until Elizabeth succeeded to the throne in 1558. Her interest is in the characters & relationships with Henry's four heirs. Making use of a huge variety of contemporary sources she brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods of English history when each of Henry's heirs was potentially the tool of powerful political or religious figures & when the realm was seething with intrigue & turbulent change. ...

A beautiful book of illustrated Bible stories retold by the world's best-loved cleric. Nobel prizewinner Archbishop Desmond Tutu re-tells over fifty of his favourite Bible stories for an audience of young readers. From classics such as the stories of Noah & the calming of the storm to less-known stories such as Naboth's Vineyard or Ruth the Archbishop makes these time-honoured stories come to life in his own inimitable voice. The book has a truly international flavour with illustrators from around the world contributing their interpretations of the stories. The result is a glorious & great value package that will inspire a generation of children
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Tollys great grandmother isnt a witch but both she & her old house Green Knowe are full of a very special kind of magic. There are other children in the house
- children who were happy there centuries before. Running around Green Knowes moat gardens & mysterious rooms Tolly slowly discovers them their toys & animals & their wonderful stories... This work is a haunting atmospheric classic from Carnegie Medal winner Lucy Boston.
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Behind the facade of politics & pageantry at the Tudor court there was a family drama. Nothing drove Henry VIII England's wealthiest & most powerful king more than producing a legitimate male heir & so perpetuating his dynasty. To that end he married six wives became the subject of the most notorious divorce case of the sixteenth century & broke with the pope all in an age of international competition & warfare social unrest & growing religious intolerance & discord. Henry fathered four living children each by a different mother. Their interrelationships were often scarred by jealously mutual distrust sibling rivalry even hatred. Possessed of quick wits & strong wills their characters were defined partly by the educations they received & partly by events over which they had no control. Henry Fitzroy Duke of Richmond although recognized as the king's son could never forget his illegitimacy. Edward died while still in his teens desperately plotting to exclude his half-sisters from the throne. Mary's world was shattered by her mother's divorce & her own unhappy marriage. Elizabeth was the most successful but also the luckiest. Even so she lived with the knowledge that her father had ordered her mother's execution was often in fear of her own life & could never marry the one man she truly loved. Henry's children idolized their father even if they differed radically over how to perpetuate his legacy. To tell their stories John Guy returns to the archives drawing on a vast array of contemporary records personal letters & first-hand accounts. ...

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts & presented for the first time as a fully continuous & standalone story this illustrated paperback of the epic tale of The Children of Hurin will reunite fans of The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings with Elves dragons Dwarves & Orcs & the rich landscape & characters unique to Tolkien. It is a legendary time long before The Lord of the Rings & Morgoth the first Dark Lord dwells in the vast fortress of Angband in the North; & within the shadow of the fear of Angband & the war waged by Morgoth against the Elves the fates of Turin & his sister Nienor will be tragically entwined. Their brief & passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of Hurin the man who dared to defy him to his face. Against them Morgoth sends his most formidable servant Glaurung a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire in an attempt to fulfil the curse of Morgoth & destroy the children of Hurin. Begun by J.R.R. Tolkien at the end of the First World War The Children of Hurin became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth. But he could not bring it to a final & finished form. In this book Christopher Tolkien has constructed after long study of the manuscripts a coherent narrative without any editorial invention. ...