The concept of the “cult of the child” highlights a radical change in child representation.
Having been neglected and even disrespected for centuries, children are now valued, and …

Em Testemunha ocular, Peter Burke mostra ao público a importância da leitura das imagens
como fontes históricas–assim como se faz com os próprios documentos escritos. Ao …

Recent social scientific research on childhood is oddly ambivalent. Despite much
theoretically creative and empirically innovative work, the sociology of childhood, as a …

Modern western education finds its origins in the practices, systems and schools of the
ancient Greeks and Romans. It is in the field of education, in fact, that classical antiquity has …

Updated to incorporate recent scholarship on the subject, this new edition of Hugh
Cunningham's classic text investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and …

How are children raised in different cultures? What is the role of children in society? How are
families and communities structured around them? Now available in a revised edition, this …

HERE IS PROBABLY no other Western culture in which the antagonism between the sexes
occupies so central a place in literature and art as classical Greece. 1 The archaic poet …

Bullying appears to be ubiquitous across cultures, involving hundreds of millions of
adolescents worldwide, and has potentially serious negative consequences for its …

It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most important
religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-ranging study makes it clear that …

History of Early Childhood Education presents a thorough and elegant description of the
history of early childhood education in the United States. This book of original research is a …