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Health and Wellbeing in Childhood, 2nd Edition
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Garvis, Susanne, Ed.; Pendergast, Donna, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2017
The period from birth to twelve years is crucial in a child's development and can significantly impact future educational success, resilience and participation in society. "Health and Wellbeing in Childhood, 2nd Edition" provides readers with a comprehensive foundation in health and wellbeing education across key priority areas, covering…
Descriptors: Physical Health, Mental Health, Well Being, Children
African and African American Children's and Adolescent Literature in the Classroom: A Critical Guide. Black Studies and Critical Thinking. Volume 11
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Yenika-Agbaw, Vivian, Ed.; Napoli, Mary, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2011
The essays in this collection discuss multicultural issues in children's and adolescent literature, focusing particularly on African and African American cultures. They challenge everyone's understanding of what, in an age of globalization, multicultural texts really are. Cumulatively, these essays illustrate multicultural literature's power to…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Adolescent Literature, African American Culture, African Culture
Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development.
Brown, Lyn Mikel; Gilligan, Carol – 1992
A study explored girls' development and its implication for the psychology of women. From 1986-1990, nearly 100 girls between the ages of 7 and 18 at the Laurel School for Girls in Cleveland, Ohio, were interviewed. Most of the girls were from middle- or upper-middle-class families (80%), although some were scholarship students from working-class…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Developmental Psychology, Early Adolescents, Elementary Secondary Education