Child development

Six Cultures: Studies of Child Rearing

This book draws on research conducted in the USA, the Philippines, Mexico, Japan, India and Kenya, to see how child rearing differs in different cultural contexts. One finding is that the way in which parents engage with their children during play differs across cultures.

Publication year: 1963
Content Type: Book

Using Cross-Cultural Conversations to Contextualize Understandings of Play: A Multinational Study

The study examines two researchers’ perspectives on play in the lives of children from diverse cultural contexts. Two questions guided this study: (1) how do researchers conceptualize children’s play and (2) what shapes their understanding of play. In order to answer these questions, a critical discourse was established between two researchers who had each completed…

Publication year: 2017
Content Type: Academic paper

Play, Learning and the Early Childhood Curriculum

The Third Edition of this popular book reflects contemporary research as well as thinking about the role and value of play in learning and development, within and beyond early childhood. The author explores recent developments across international contexts which endorse play, and argues for critical engagement with some aspects of policy discourse in how ‘educational…

Publication year: 2013
Content Type: Book

Can the Neighborhood Built Environment Make a Difference to Children’s Development? Building the Research Agenda to Create Evidence for Place-Based Children’s Policy

This paper argues the importance of exploring the effect of the neighbourhood built environment on child development as a crucial first step towards informing urban design principle to help reduce developmental vulnerability in children, and set optimal child development trajectories early.

Publication year: 2015
Content Type: Academic paper

The Development of Play

The book explores the central role of play in childhood development. David Cohen examines how children play with objects, with language, and most importantly with each other and their parents. He explains how play enables children to learn how to move, think, speak and imagine, as well as to develop emotionally and socially. The book…

Publication year: 2006
Content Type: Book

The Impact of Humanitarian Shelter and Settlements on Child Protection

Insufficient attention has been paid to the design of shelters and settlements in protracted refugee encampments in Eastern Africa. The results invisibly obstruct young children’s development.

Publication year: 2017
Content Type: Academic paper

Playwork Theory and Practice

This book brings together theoretical perspectives and practical advice to improve playwork practice. There are chapters on the role of adventure playgrounds; the challenge of starting a playwork section in a local authority; and the value of networking.

Publication year: 2003
Content Type: Book

Child Poverty in the Developing World

This short report presents the first ever scientific measurement of the extent and depth of child poverty in all the developing regions of the world. It represents a summary of a much larger research report on child poverty and child rights funded by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

Publication year: 2013
Content Type: Report

The Ecology of Human Development – Experiments by Nature and Design

In this book, Bronfenbrenner presents a theoretical perspective for ecological research on human development that differs in many ways from Barker’s orientation. Three research paradigms are presented: studies of ecological transition, transforming experiments. and studies of contrasting environments. An important aspect of this book is Bronfenbrenner’s critique of the laboratory as a context for observing…

Publication year: 1979
Content Type: Book

Early Years Play and Learning: Developing Social Skills and Cooperation

This book provides a framework for observing and assessing children’s learning through play. It is meant to help early years practitioners to deepen their understanding of the links between intellectual development, the growth of language and the emotional well-being of young children.

Publication year: 2004
Content Type: Book

Posttraumatic Play: Towards Acceptance and Resolution

This article examines the issues surrounding childhood trauma and PTP. It uses a case study to illustrate the phases of a play therapy approach that incorporates Ericksonian principles, in order for the child to achieve resolution and acceptance. The countertransference issues that a clinician may encounter also are discussed.

Publication year: 2007
Content Type: Academic paper

Childhood and National Policies in Lebanon

This book is written in Arabic and provides insight into how Lebanese policies affect childhood experiences in Lebanon. It draws on laws, international conventions, the Lebanese constitution, and policies, showing how inconsistency between policy and practice, lack of adherence to international conventions, and lack of inclusion of children in policy-making leads to children’s rights infringements.

Publication year: 2017
Content Type: Academic paper

Exploring the Fourth Environment. An Examination of the Home Range of City and Suburban Teenagers

In this study of a sample of 148 teenagers from metropolitan Toronto, home range is found to be smaller in the city, in lower social classes, and-in the suburbs only-for girls and younger teenagers. Home range is the spatial manifestation of exploring the “fourth environment,” which is globally defined as the environment outside the home,…

Publication year: 1983
Content Type: Academic paper

Thematic Area: Child development

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