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  1. Centuries of Childhood
    Resource Type: Book
  2. The Challenge of Youth
    Resource Type: Book
  3. Childhood and Society
    Resource Type: Book
  4. Childhood Under Siege
    How Big Business Ruthlessly Targets Children

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    An exploration of the corporate manipulation and exploitation of children and childhood and society's (lack of) response.
  5. The Children of the Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An 1960s account o communal child-rearing in Israeli kibbutzim.
  6. Coming of Age in America
    Resource Type: Book
  7. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  8. The Decline of Play and Rise in Children's Mental Disorders
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Rates of depression and anxiety among young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past 50 to 70 years. Today, by at least some estimates, five to eight times as many high school and college students meet the criteria for diagnosis of major depression and/or anxiety disorder as was true half a century or more ago. This increased psychopathology is not the result of changed diagnostic criteria; it holds even when the measures and criteria are constant.
  9. Escape from Childhood
    The Needs and Rights of Children

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    A book about young people and their place, or lack of place in society today. It is about the institution of modern childhood, the attitudes, customs and laws that define children and locate children in life and determine to a large degree what their lives are like and how we, their elders, treat them.
  10. False Promises
    The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  11. The First Three Years of Life
    Resource Type: Book
  12. How to Grow Up Under Occupation
    A Childhood Under the Nazi's

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Rochat illustrates the effect adult wars and occupations have on children, and how the relative safety of the Anglo-Saxon world make it hard to comprehend what effect these wars have on children in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan and so many other countries under attack.
  13. Neill, A. S.
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Scottish progressive educator, author and founder of Summerhill school. (1883-1973).
  14. Roots of Empathy
    Changing the World Child by Child

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Roots of Empathy looks at eliminating crime and changing the world by starting with a compassionate environment for children.
  15. Such, Such Were The Joys
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1952
    George Orwell describes his experiences at an English boarding school which he attended from the age of eight to thirteen. According to Orwell, the school experience involved continual bullying, violence and sexual sadism, malnutrition, and hypocritical profession of moral principles which were contradicted by practice.


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