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The book provides a structured overview of key themes through historical approaches, sociocultural perspectives, and policy debates. Chapters address how childhood is constructed over time, the role of children’s literature and sexuality, sociological and developmental viewpoints, and the impact of digital media. It also examines child concern, early childhood rights, law and best interests, and competing accounts of childhood’s future.","An Introduction to  \nChildhood Studies  \nSecond Edition  \nEdited by Mary Jane Kehily  \nAn introduction to childhood studies  \nSecond edition  \nAn introduction to childhood studies  \nSecond edition  \nEditor  \nMary Jane Kehily  \nOpen University Press McGraw-Hill Education  \nMcGraw-Hill House Shoppenhangers Road Maidenhead Berkshire  \nEngland SL6 2QL  \nemail: [enquiries@openup.co.uk](enquiries@openup.co.uk)  \n[world wide web: www.openup.co.uk](world wide web: www.openup.co.uk)  \nand Two Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10121-2289, USA  \nFirst published 2009  \nCopyright © Mary Jane Kehily  \nAll rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher or a licence from the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited. Details of such licences (for reprographic reproduction) may be obtained from the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd of Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London, EC1N 8TS.  \nA catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 0 335 2280 6 (sb) 0 335 22870 4  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data CIP data applied for  \nTypeset by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk  \nPrinted and bound in Great Britain by Bell and Bain Ltd., Glasgow  \nFictitious names of companies, products, people, characters and/or data that maybe used herein (in case studies or in examples) are not intended to represent any real individual, company, product or event.  \nContents  \nEditor and contributors  \n1 Understanding childhood  \nAn introduction to some key themes and issues Mary Jane Kehily  \n2 Childhood studies  \nPast, present and future  \nMartin Woodhead  \nvii  \n1  \n17  \nPART I  \nHistorical Approaches to Childhood  \n3 The historical construction of childhood  \nDiana Gittins  \n4 Children’s literature and childhood  \nPeter Hunt  \n5 Innocence and experience  \nA historical approach to childhood and sexuality Mary Jane Kehily and Heather Montgomery  \n35  \n50  \n70  \nPART II  \nSociocultural Approaches to Childhood  \n6 Constructing childhood sociologically 93 Chris Jenks  \n7 Developmental psychology and the study of childhood 112  \nValerie Walkerdine  \n8 New media, new childhoods? 124 Children’s changing cultural environment in the age of  \ndigital technology  \nDavid Buckingham  \nvi CONTENTS  \nPART III  \nPolicy Perspectives on Childhood  \n9 Promoting better childhoods  \nConstructions of child concern  \nWendy Stainton Rogers  \n10 Children’s rights in early childhood  \nGlenda MacNaughton and Kylie Smith  \n11 Childhood and the law  \nIn whose ‘best interests’?  \nDaniel Monk  \n12 The future of childhood  \nCrisis, cyclical concern or accommodation? Mary Jane Kehily  \nReferences  \nIndex  \n141  \n161  \n177  \n198  \n209  \n229  \nEditor and contributors  \nDavid Buckingham is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, where he directs the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media. He has directed several major research projects on young people’s relationships with the media and on media education, and has lectured on these topics in more than 20 countries worldwide. He is the author of numerous books, including Children Talking Television (Routledge 1993), Moving Images (Manchester University Press 1996), The Making of Citizens (Routledge 2000), After the Death of Childhood (Polity 2000), Media Education: Literacy, Learning and Popular Culture (Polity 2003), Beyond Technology: Children’s Learning in the Age of Digital Culture (Polity 2007) .  \nDiana Gittins is Associate Lecturer in creative writing for The Open University. 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