Author: Urie Bronfenbrenner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671834043
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Two Worlds of Childhood
Author: Urie Bronfenbrenner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9786718000310
Category : Child rearing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9786718000310
Category : Child rearing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
American Chica
Author: Marie Arana
Publisher: Dial Press
ISBN: 0307764591
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply separate cultures for years. But only when she immigrated with her family to the United States did she come to understand that she was a hybrid American whose cultural identity was split in half. Coming to terms with this split is at the heart of this graceful, beautifully realized portrait of a child who “was a north-south collision, a New World fusion. An American Chica.” Here are two vastly different landscapes: Peru—earthquake-prone, charged with ghosts of history and mythology—and the sprawling prairie lands of Wyoming. In these rich terrains resides a colorful cast of family members who bring Arana’s historia to life...her proud grandfather who one day simply stopped coming down the stairs; her dazzling grandmother, “clicking through the house as if she were making her way onstage.” But most important are Arana’s parents: he a brilliant engineer, she a gifted musician. For more than half a century these two passionate, strong-willed people struggled to overcome the bicultural tensions in their marriage and, finally, to prevail.
Publisher: Dial Press
ISBN: 0307764591
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply separate cultures for years. But only when she immigrated with her family to the United States did she come to understand that she was a hybrid American whose cultural identity was split in half. Coming to terms with this split is at the heart of this graceful, beautifully realized portrait of a child who “was a north-south collision, a New World fusion. An American Chica.” Here are two vastly different landscapes: Peru—earthquake-prone, charged with ghosts of history and mythology—and the sprawling prairie lands of Wyoming. In these rich terrains resides a colorful cast of family members who bring Arana’s historia to life...her proud grandfather who one day simply stopped coming down the stairs; her dazzling grandmother, “clicking through the house as if she were making her way onstage.” But most important are Arana’s parents: he a brilliant engineer, she a gifted musician. For more than half a century these two passionate, strong-willed people struggled to overcome the bicultural tensions in their marriage and, finally, to prevail.
Between Two Worlds
Author: Elizabeth Marquardt
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0307237117
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Is there really such a thing as a “good divorce”? Determined to uncover the truth, Elizabeth Marquardt—herself a child of divorce—conducted, with Professor Norval Glenn, a pioneering national study of children of divorce, surveying 1,500 young adults from both divorced and intact families between 2001 and 2003. In Between Two Worlds, she weaves the findings of that study together with powerful, unsentimental stories of the childhoods of young people from divorced families. The hard truth, she says, is that while divorce is sometimes necessary, even amicable divorces sow lasting inner conflict in the lives of children. When a family breaks in two, children who stay in touch with both parents must travel between two worlds, trying alone to reconcile their parents’ often strikingly different beliefs, values, and ways of living. Authoritative, beautifully written, and alive with the voices of men and women whose lives were changed by divorce, Marquardt’s book is essential reading for anyone who grew up “between two worlds.” “Makes a persuasive case against the culture of casual divorce.” —Washington Post “A poignant narrative of her own experience . . . Marquardt says she and other young adults who grew up in the divorce explosion of the 1970s and 1980s are still dealing with wounds that they could never talk about with their parents.”—Chicago Tribune
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0307237117
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Is there really such a thing as a “good divorce”? Determined to uncover the truth, Elizabeth Marquardt—herself a child of divorce—conducted, with Professor Norval Glenn, a pioneering national study of children of divorce, surveying 1,500 young adults from both divorced and intact families between 2001 and 2003. In Between Two Worlds, she weaves the findings of that study together with powerful, unsentimental stories of the childhoods of young people from divorced families. The hard truth, she says, is that while divorce is sometimes necessary, even amicable divorces sow lasting inner conflict in the lives of children. When a family breaks in two, children who stay in touch with both parents must travel between two worlds, trying alone to reconcile their parents’ often strikingly different beliefs, values, and ways of living. Authoritative, beautifully written, and alive with the voices of men and women whose lives were changed by divorce, Marquardt’s book is essential reading for anyone who grew up “between two worlds.” “Makes a persuasive case against the culture of casual divorce.” —Washington Post “A poignant narrative of her own experience . . . Marquardt says she and other young adults who grew up in the divorce explosion of the 1970s and 1980s are still dealing with wounds that they could never talk about with their parents.”—Chicago Tribune
Child of Two Worlds
Author: Mugo Gatheru
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kikuyu (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kikuyu (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
2 Wrlds Childhood
Author: Urie Bronfenbrenner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671834043
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671834043
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Who's Afraid of Children?
Author: Helen Brocklehurst
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754641711
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Brocklehurst's impressive work breaks new ground in normative international political theory. The author develops a new theoretical framework which exposes how children are present in international relations and security practices.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754641711
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Brocklehurst's impressive work breaks new ground in normative international political theory. The author develops a new theoretical framework which exposes how children are present in international relations and security practices.
Family Wisdom
Author: Susan Ginsberg
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231103763
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Encompassing a remarkably rich spectrum of reflections on all aspects of family life, Family Wisdom spans centuries and cultures to offer 2,000 of the most perceptive, exhilarating, helpful and humorous remarks on a subject that concerns just about everyone. The first collection of its kind, Family Wisdom will open a dialogue among readers of all generations.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231103763
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Encompassing a remarkably rich spectrum of reflections on all aspects of family life, Family Wisdom spans centuries and cultures to offer 2,000 of the most perceptive, exhilarating, helpful and humorous remarks on a subject that concerns just about everyone. The first collection of its kind, Family Wisdom will open a dialogue among readers of all generations.
The Inner World of Childhood
Author: Frances Gillespy Wickes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars
Author: Mischa Honeck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108625762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The histories of modern war and childhood were the result of competing urgencies. According to ideals of childhood widely accepted throughout the world by 1900, children should have been protected, even hidden, from conflict and danger. Yet at a time when modern ways of childhood became increasingly possible for economic, social, and political reasons, it became less possible to fully protect them in the face of massive industrialized warfare driven by geopolitical rivalries and expansionist policies. Taking a global perspective, the chapters in this book examine a wide range of experiences and places. In addition to showing how the engagement of children and youth with war differed according to geography, technology, class, age, race, gender, and the nature of the state, they reveal how children acquired agency during the twentieth century's greatest conflicts.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108625762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The histories of modern war and childhood were the result of competing urgencies. According to ideals of childhood widely accepted throughout the world by 1900, children should have been protected, even hidden, from conflict and danger. Yet at a time when modern ways of childhood became increasingly possible for economic, social, and political reasons, it became less possible to fully protect them in the face of massive industrialized warfare driven by geopolitical rivalries and expansionist policies. Taking a global perspective, the chapters in this book examine a wide range of experiences and places. In addition to showing how the engagement of children and youth with war differed according to geography, technology, class, age, race, gender, and the nature of the state, they reveal how children acquired agency during the twentieth century's greatest conflicts.
The Poetics of Childhood
Author: Roni Natov
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113572170X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113572170X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.