Childhood Through the Looking Glass.

Intro -- Childhood Through the Looking Glass -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Children's Wellbeing -- The Discovery of Childhood -- Development of the Concept of Childhood and Child Welfare in India -- Changing Perceptions of Child-Rearing in Contemporary Japan: The Nurturing Father -- Parenting for Cognitive Development: Advice to Parents -- Children as Victims and as Perpetrators: From Symbolic Incongruence to Ineffective Practice -- Part II Children's Play Spaces -- The Secret Places of Childhood -- Perceptions of Play in Childhood: Uncovering Cultural Hijacking or Harmony? -- Adolescence and Liminality in Carson McCuller's Short Fiction -- Part III Indigenous Children -- Growing up Boys and Girls: Traditional Australian Aboriginal Parenting Practices -- Indigenous Children and Social Inclusion in Canada -- Part IV Children and ICTs -- Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in an Early Childhood Education Setting -- iPad Babies and Parental Intermediation on YouTube -- Part V Children in Research -- Children Researching Children: Evidence from the KLT Survey -- The Positioning of Children and Childhood in Research: The Perspectives of Pioneering Researchers -- Part VI Discourses of Childhood -- White Snow in the Mirror: An Inversion of the Innocent Childhood Paradigm -- Institutional Moral Panic -- Part VII Social Constructions of Childhood -- The Social Construction of Childhood and its Implications on the Battlefield -- Innocence Lost: The Case of Child Combatants in Colombia and Their Reintegration -- When Age Descriptive Words Matter -- Religious Diversity in Kindergartens -- A Medial Understanding of Child Development and Education.

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