Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean Living Youth, and Social by Ross Haenfler

By Ross Haenfler
Straight facet is a clean-living early life circulate that emerged from the punk rock culture within the early Eighties. Its simple tenets advertise a drug-free, tobacco-free, and sexually liable lifestyle—tenets that, at the floor, appear counter to these commonplace of youngster uprising. for lots of straight-edge teenagers, notwithstanding, being fresh and sober used to be (and nonetheless is) the final word expression of resistance—resistance to the consumerist and self-indulgent ethos that defines mainstream U.S. culture.
In this primary in-depth sociological research of the move, Ross Haenfler follows the lives of dozens of straight-edge youths, exhibiting how for those younger women and men, and hundreds of thousands of others around the globe, the adoption of the straight-edge doctrine for you to greater themselves developed right into a broader challenge to enhance the realm during which they dwell. immediately aspect used to suggest a rejection of mind-altering components and promiscuous intercourse, but glossy interpretations comprise a vegetarian (or vegan) vitamin and an expanding involvement in environmental and political issues.
The narrative strikes seamlessly among the author’s own studies and theoretical issues, together with how individuals of subcultures outline “resistance,” the function of collective identification in social events, how younger males event a number of masculinities of their quest to redefine manhood, and the way younger ladies determine their roles in subcultures. This e-book offers clean views at the that means of resistance and id in any subculture.
Reading for Understanding: Toward an R&D Program in Reading by Catherine Snow

By Catherine Snow
Children of the Greek Civil War: Refugees and the Politics by Loring M. Danforth,Riki Van Boeschoten

By Loring M. Danforth,Riki Van Boeschoten
Marshalling archival documents, oral histories, and ethnographic fieldwork, the authors examine the evacuation method, the political clash surrounding it, the children’s upbringing, and their fates as adults bring to an end from their mom and dad and their native land. additionally they supply voice to seven refugee childrens who poignantly recount their adolescence reports and heroic efforts to build new lives in diaspora groups during the international. A much-needed corrective to earlier ancient debts, Children of the Greek Civil War is additionally a looking out exam of the iconic results of displacement at the lives of refugee children.
Contemporary Perspectives on Research in Creativity in Early by Olivia Saracho

By Olivia Saracho
International Cinema and the Girl: Local Issues, by Fiona Handyside,Kate Taylor-Jones

By Fiona Handyside,Kate Taylor-Jones
Hoffnung, die zweite – Dan und seine Bilder (German Edition) by Klaus Möckel,Aljonna Möckel,Dan Möckel

By Klaus Möckel,Aljonna Möckel,Dan Möckel
Durch "Hoffnung, die zweite" erfährt der Leser, dass der Optimismus, wenn auch anders als damals gedacht, begründet battle. Inzwischen erheblich älter, lebt Dan unter Betreuung in einem Behindertenwohnheim in Potsdam und arbeitet in einer geschützten Werkstatt. Seine Eltern achten darauf, dass der Kontakt erhalten bleibt: Sie holen ihn regelmäßig zu sich und verbringen oft den Urlaub mit ihm.
Dieses zweite Buch ist aber kein weiterer Lebensbericht, sondern eine Sammlung von Bildern, die Dan über die Jahre hinweg geschaffen hat. Mit kleinen humorvollen Geschichten versuchen die Autoren, die Sprache ihres "sprachlosen" Sohnes zu verdeutlichen, der sich wegen eines frühkindlichen Hirnschadens weder über Gebärden noch über Lesen und Schreiben mit seiner Umwelt verständigen kann. Es entstand ein verführerischer Band voller naiver Kunst und prächtiger Farben, voller dunkelgrüner Wälder, bunter Blüten, japanisch anmutender Zweige, blauer Häuser, roter oder gelber Himmel. Ein Buch vor allem, das dem Betrachter Einblick in eine vielfach verschlüsselte Welt gewährt.
Pädagogischer Alltag und biografische Werdegänge: by Franziska Hübsch,Maximilian Schäfer,Werner Thole

By Franziska Hübsch,Maximilian Schäfer,Werner Thole
Erziehungsstellen und pädagogische Hausgemeinschaften stellen ein weitgehend unbeachtetes Handlungsfeld der Hilfen zur Erziehung für Heranwachsende dar. In dem Band werden die Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojektes vorgestellt. Beschrieben werden die Wege durch das Leben von ehemaligen AdressatInnen von Erziehungsstellen. Ergänzt werden die biografischen Rekonstruktionen durch Einblicke in den pädagogischen Alltag und Daten zu den Rahmenbedingungen der Erziehungsstellen und pädagogischen Hausgemeinschaften.
Die Befunde ergänzen das Wissen zur Pädagogik der Hilfen zur Erziehung und votieren dafür, über Alternativen zu geschlossenen Unterbringungsformen von Kindern und Jugendlichen nachzudenken.
The Agency of Children by David Oswell

By David Oswell
Play, Creativity and Digital Cultures (Routledge Research in by Rebekah Willett,Muriel Robinson,Jackie Marsh

By Rebekah Willett,Muriel Robinson,Jackie Marsh
Recent paintings on kid's electronic cultures has pointed out a number of literacies rising via kid's engagement with new media applied sciences. This edited assortment makes a speciality of kid's electronic cultures, particularly studying the function of play and creativity in studying with those new applied sciences.
The chapters during this ebook have been contributed via a world diversity of revered researchers, who seek to increase our understandings of kid's interactions with new media, either inside of and out of doors of faculty. They handle and supply proof for carrying on with debates round the following questions: What notions of creativity are helpful in our fields? How does an figuring out of play tell research of kid's engagement with electronic cultures? How may well tuition perform take account of out-of-school studying in terms of electronic cultures? How will we comprehend kid's engagements with electronic applied sciences in commercialized spaces?
Offering present examine, theoretical debate and empirical experiences, this fascinating textual content will problem the contemplating students and lecturers alike because it explores the evolving nature of play in the media panorama of the twenty-first century.
Early Childhood in Postcolonial Australia: Children's by P. Srinivasan

By P. Srinivasan