This book provides an account of research in action and debate in progress in a selection of areas of childhood social development where significant progress is underway.

This book investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of 500 years. Hugh Cunningham tells an engaging story of the development of ideas about childhood from the Renaissance to the present, including Locke, Rosseau, Wordsworth and Freud.

Taking a rights-based approach to children's nursing practice and child health, this core text is essential reading for those studying children's nursing and child health courses at all levels.

This book shows teachers how they can recognise and encourage music making in the classroom and so address all the needs of the National Curriculum for music.

This is a combinated work concerning children's lives in contemporary cities which brings together international scholars at the forefront of the debate.

Suitable for students, teachers, researchers, educational leaders and all who are interested in primary education, this book examines children's development and learning, their needs and aspirations, and their lives in a diverse society and fragile world. It explores what goes on in schools, from the early years to educational aims and values.

This book uses a clear format to set out the key stages of communication development in babies and young children.

Provides a state-of-the-art account of how people's subjective sense of national identity develops through childhood and adolescence.