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Family Dynamics over the Life Course: Foundations, Turning Points and Outcomes
This open access book examines how families and other social institutions interact to shape outcomes over the life course. It considers how to use research evidence to reduce social disadvantage through translation of evidence to support public policies and programs. The chapters focus on key life course stages such as early child development, adolescence, emerging adulthood, parenting, marriag…
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-12224-8
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- Life Course Research and Social Policies
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- VIII, 326
Language Practices Among Children and Youth in Indonesia
This open access book presents studies of language use in Indonesia, focusing on children and youth. It reports on developments in the use of language for narrative production and within the realm of popular culture and traditional cultural practices in Indonesia. Through studies that include cohesion in narrative production, language in radio advertising, naming practices and formulaic prohibi…
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- 978-981-99-4774-4
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- XIII, 198
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First-in-Family Students, University Experience and Family Life
This open access book, now in its second edition, offers a comprehensive overview of the experiences of First in Family (FiF) or first-generation students in higher education. It draws upon narratives of students and their family members and spans the entire university student life cycle (pre-entry, commencement, progression and graduation) with a focus on specific cohorts including mature-aged…
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- 978-3-031-34450-3
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- XXIII, 294
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Learning from 50 Years of Aboriginal Alcohol Programs
This open access book deals with community-based attempts on the part of Aboriginal communities and groups in Australia to address harms arising from alcohol misuse. Alcohol-related harms are viewed as both a product of colonisation and dispossession and a contributor to ongoing social, economic and health-related disadvantage, both in Australia and in other countries with colonised Indigenous …
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- 978-981-99-0400-6
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- XXVI, 326
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(Re)theorising More-than-parental Involvement in Early Childhood Education an…
This open access book provides a critical, thought-provoking, and stimulating overview of theories applied worldwide to conceptualise collaborations between early childhood education and children's families. The book starts with a critical reflection on the colonial undertones of parental involvement (PI) and acknowledges a strong political will to improve this aspect of early childhood educati…
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- 9783031387623
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- XXI, 203
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Generation digital : politics, commerce, and childhood in the age of the inte…
The role that children and youth play in the emerging digital media culture-as consumers targeted by marketing campaigns, as creators of their own digital culture, and as political participants.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262280129
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- 1 online resource (xv, 347 pages)
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- 302 MON g
Disconnected: Youth, New Media, and the Ethics Gap
How young people think about the moral and ethical dilemmas they encounter when they share and use online content and participate in online communities."Drawing on extensive interviews with young people between the ages of 10 and 25, James describes the nature of their thinking about privacy, property, and participation online. She identifies three ways that young people approach online activit…
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- 9780262325561
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- 1 online resource (xxix, 167 pages).
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Technology's child :digital media's role in the ages and stages of growing up
"Davis addresses the "screen time" debate by recognizing that children's experiences of technology and social relationships are qualitatively distinct at different stages of development"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262370097
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- 1 online resource
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The Civic Web: Young People, the Internet, and Civic Participation
An investigation of how governments, organizations, and groups use the Internet to promote civic and political engagement among young people. There has been widespread concern in contemporary Western societies about declining engagement in civic life; people are less inclined to vote, to join political parties, to campaign for social causes, or to trust political processes. Young people in part…
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- 9781461947349
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 185 pages).
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Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana
This title provides an account of how young people in Ghana's capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy. The book captures the flexibility of technology by users in the margins but also highlights how their invisibility puts limits on their full inclusion into a global network society.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262301459
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- 1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) :illustrations.
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