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Down Our Way
eBook - The Relevance of Neighbourhoods for Parenting and Child Development
ISBN/EAN: 9780470510988
Umbreit-Nr.: 3676380
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 306 S., 5.50 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 13.06.2007
Auflage: 1/2007
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- This book will describe in detail what it is like to be a parent in four different communities in England. The research data that are the basis for this description are interpreted in relation to a number of key factors, include: family social class, ethnic group, length of time on the neighbourhood and the presence of extended family locally.<p>The book will be of interest to anyone wanting to know more about how to improve the lives of parents and children. Special focus is placed on those families who face disadvantage, either in relation to personal vulnerabilities or in relation to living in neighbourhoods lacking in resources and facilities.</p>
- Kurztext
- This book will describe in detail what it is like to be a parent in four different communities in England. The research data that are the basis for this description are interpreted in relation to a number of key factors, include: family social class, ethnic group, length of time on the neighbourhood and the presence of extended family locally. The book will be of interest to anyone wanting to know more about how to improve the lives of parents and children. Special focus is placed on those families who face disadvantage, either in relation to personal vulnerabilities or in relation to living in neighbourhoods lacking in resources and facilities.
- Autorenportrait
- <b>Jacqueline Barnes</b> is Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, based at the Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues. Professor Barnes is one of the directors of the national evaluation of the UK governments Sure Start local programmes initiative.<p>After qualifying at the University of Wisconsin to be an educational psychologist she returned to the UK and was awarded her PhD in Psychology from London University in 1983.</p><p>In the 1980s she developed the<i>Early Years Behaviour Checklist</i> with Naomi Richman, a widely used measure of the behavioural problems of young children in group settings. She also worked at Harvard in the USA, returning afterwards to London University. Her current research interests are: evaluation of early intervention programmes related to childrens health and development and parenting; community characteristics and the environment as they relate to family functioning and children; and the use of child care in the early years, particularly factors associated with mothers of returning to work after having a new baby.</p>