Content: Machine generated contents note: 1.Understanding childhood --
An introduction to some key themes and issues / Mary Jane Kehily --
pt. I Studying childhood --
2.Childhood studies: past, present and future / Martin Woodhead --
3.The historical construction of childhood / Diana Gittins --
pt. I Activity --
pt. II Sociocultural approaches to childhood --
4.Constructing childhood sociologically / Chris Jenks --
5.Developmental psychology and the study of childhood / Valerie Walkerdine --
6.Anthropological approaches to childhood / Heather Montgomery --
pt. II Activity --
pt. III Policy perspectives on childhood --
7.Promoting better childhoods: constructions of child concern / Wendy Stainton Rogers --
8.Children's rights in early childhood / Kylie Smith --
9.Working with children: an integrated approach / Jane Read --
pt. III Activity --
pt. IV Emergent Issues --
Note continued: 10.New media, new markets, new childhoods? Children's changing cultural environment In the age of digital technology / David Buckingham --
11.Lost innocence? The sexualization of childhood / Naomi Holford --
12.Children In armed conflict / David M. Rosen --
pt. IV Activity --
13.The future of childhood: crisis, cyclical concern or accommodation? / Mary Jane Kehily.
