Childhood Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Children’s Drawing and Writing

   The Remarkable in the Unremarkable

   By Diane Mavers

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Children’s everyday drawing and writing are paradoxical: charmingly engaging, yet seemingly unremarkable in their ordinariness. This book takes a very close look at what passes by largely unnoticed at home and in school: copying, texts fleetingly present then gone, a picture drawn after the valued...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
2. Picturebooks, Pedagogy and Philosophy

   By Joanna Haynes, Karin Murris

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Contemporary picturebooks open up spaces for philosophical dialogues between people of all ages. As works of art, picturebooks offer unique opportunities to explore ideas and to create meaning collaboratively. This book considers censorship of certain well-known picturebooks, challenging the...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Development

   Edited by Marc H. Bornstein, Robert H. Bradley

   Series: Monographs in Parenting Series

   Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Development presents cutting-edge thinking and research on linkages among socioeconomic status, parenting, and child development. The contributors represent an array of different disciplines, and approach the issues from a variety of perspectives....

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
4. World Yearbook of Education 2009

   Childhood Studies and the Impact of Globalization: Policies and Practices at Global and Local Levels

   Edited by Marilyn Fleer, Mariane Hedegaard, Jonathan Tudge

   Series: World Yearbook of Education

   The World Yearbook of Education 2009: Childhood Studies and the Impact of Globalization examines the concept of ‘childhood’ and ‘childhood development and learning’ from educational, sociological and psychological perspectives. This contributed volume seeks to explicitly provide a series of windows...

   Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge
5. Researching Primary Education: Methods and Issues

   Edited by Rosemary Webb

   This book increases understanding of, and provides inspiration for, the conduct of research in primary/elementary education. It discusses and evaluates the selection and development of research methods used for their own innovatory projects. They explore the relationship between their choice of...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Emergent Computer Literacy

   A Developmental Perspective

   By Helen Mele Robinson

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   The United States is currently grappling with how to prepare our students to be computer literate citizens in the competitive technological world we live in. Understanding how children develop computer knowledge, and the ways that adults are able to guide their computer learning experiences, is a...

   Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
7. Participatory Learning in the Early Years

   Research and Pedagogy

   Edited by Donna Berthelsen, Jo Brownlee, Eva Johansson

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   The early years are an important period for learning, but the questions surrounding participatory learning amongst toddlers remain under-examined. This book presents the latest theoretical and research perspectives about how ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care) contexts promote democracy and...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
8. Postmodern Picturebooks

   Play, Parody, and Self-Referentiality

   By Lawrence R. Sipe, Sylvia Pantaleo

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Over the past 15 years, there has been a pronounced trend toward a particular type of picturebook that many would label "postmodern." Postmodern picturebooks have stretched our conventional notion of what constitutes a picturebook, as well as what it means to be an engaged reader of these texts....

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Play, Creativity and Digital Cultures

   Edited by Rebekah Willett, Muriel Robinson, Jackie Marsh

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Recent work on children's digital cultures has identified a range of literacies emerging through children's engagement with new media technologies. This edited collection focuses on children's digital cultures, specifically examining the role of play and creativity in learning with these new...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
10. Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth

    Young Rural Lives

    Edited by Ruth Panelli, Samantha Punch, Elsbeth Robson

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    This collection of international research and collaborative theoretical innovation examines the socio-cultural contexts and negotiations that young people face when growing up in rural settings across the world. This book is strikingly different to a standard edited book of loosely...

    Published June 17th 2010 by Routledge