Early childhoods in a changing world - Margaret M. Clark

How is the nature of childhood changing? What challenges do children face as they grow up? This book enriches our understanding of what it means to be a child today. It examines: the impact of new technologies, policy, and early education; poverty, changing family circumstances and living in care; and case studies of childhood in certain African countries, the UK, the US, Australia, and, Western and Eastern Europe. The contributors come from across the globe and each reflects on the nature of childhood from their personal perspective and what they see happening around them. They are Jennifer M. Bowes, Eileen Carmichael, Philomena Donnelly, Eve Gregory, Mary James, Foster Kholowa, Sian Wyn Siencyn, Allison Tatton, Glenda Walsh, and Lynne Williamson and Fatuma Ahmed.

Margaret M Clark is Visiting Professor at Newman University College, She has an international reputation for her research on early education and literacy and was awarded an OBE for her services to early years education. Stanley Tucker is Professor and Dean of School at Newman University College.

"This interesting, well-structured and insightful book challenges the reader to think much more broadly about the many influences, social, economic and cultural, that affect young children's lives and define their experience of childhood. The subject matter is thought-provoking but the style is refreshingly easy to read... This is an authoritative and stimulating insight into what shapes children's lives that all early years practitioners can learn from and enjoy."
Early Years Update