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1. Four years Old in an Urban Community

   By John Newson, Elizabeth Newson

   John and Elizabeth Newson investigate the upbringing of seven hundred Nottingham children as they reach the age of four. Parents are interviewed in their homes with a realistic yet human approach and the minimum of technical jargon, and the open-ended questions allow them to produce 'a detailed and...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
2. Perspectives on School at Seven Years Old

   Edited by John Newson, Elizabeth Newson

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   This volume looks at the social and intellectual forces which the child encounters in class-room and playground from the parent’s point of view. School and home are seen as the separate yet overlapping worlds of childhood – for some children more uncompromisingly separated than for others. In the...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge