Books on youth matters
Edward Miller and Joan Almon: Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School. “Didactic instruction and standardized testing have pushed play out of early childhood education. Meanwhile, other social and technological trends in children’s lives, such as increasing screen time and he linking of toys to TV shows, films, and commericial web sites, also undermine creative play. ‘Adult life begins in a child’s imagination,’ writes poet Dana Gioia, former chairman of the national Endowment for the Arts, ‘and we’ve relinquished that imagination to the marketplace.’ The withering of imagination in childhood is a looming catastrophe with consequences as profound as global climate change, but much less widely recognized. The very attributes we most want to nurture in our children – creativity, initiative, collaboration, problem-solving, courage – are best developed through imaginative play. Just as decisive action is needed to reverse the process of climate change, we must change course now to restore child-initiated play and learning to our schools and communities.” | ||
Kristin Anderson Moore et al: The State of America's Children, Yearbook 2003. The Children's Defense Fund gathers, analyzes and disseminates information on key issues affecting children. Topics covered in the Yearbook include health, education, child welfare, mental health, child development, adolescent pregnancy prevention, family income and youth employment. Some statistics are presented at a state level. |
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Dragana Avramov, Editor: Youth Homelessness in the European Union.
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Bruno Bettelheim: A Good Enough Parent: A Book on Child-Rearing. “In this book, the preeminent child psychologist of our time gives us the results of his lifelong effort to determine what is most crucial in successful child-rearing. His purpose is not to give parents preset rules for raising their children, but rather to show them how to develop their own insights so that they will understand their own and their children's behavior in different situations and how to cope with it. Above all, he warns, parents must not indulge their impulse to try to create the child they would like to have, but should instead help each child fully develop into the person he or she would like to be.”
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Steve Biddulph: The secret of happy children. This book by an Australian psychologist with more than 20 years' experience has sold more than one million copies worldwide, and this accessible North American edition will win over many more readers. Using the premise that children's happiness depends upon parents or other adults who share in child rearing, the author explains how to interact positively with children, from infancy to adolescence. Simple language, anecdotes, line drawings, and charts describe scientific findings related to parent-child communication. For example, Biddulph highlights the benefits of an extended family and shows how to adapt one's own situation to create one; this segues beautifully into another chapter, which explains that parents should make time for themselves and not become run-down. Some Aussie lingo may confuse American readers such as I'll bread you! (meaning to hit). Illustrations greatly enhance the good-humored prose, and the appendix offers tips on how teachers, politicians, relatives, neighbors, and friends can help parents. |
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Sally Goddard Blythe: What Babies and Children Really Need: How Mothers and Fathers Can Nurture Children's Growth for Health and Wellbeing. “This book represents a milestone in our understanding of child development and what parents can do to provide their children with the best start in life. The author uses the latest scientific research to demonstrate how a baby's relationship with its mother has a lasting and fundamental impact. She argues that changes in society over the past 50 years - such as delayed motherhood, limited uptake of breastfeeding and early return to work - are interfering with the key developmental milestones essential to success and wellbeing in later life. 'We need a state,' says Sally Goddard Blythe, 'that gives children their parents, and most of all, gives babies their mothers back.'It covers: pregnancy and birth; child development; child health; and, parenting.It is suitable for parents; teachers and early years educators; health visitors; paediatricians; special needs teachers; and educational psychologists.It feature articles and reviews from parenting, women's and education magazines; local, regional and national newspapers; radio interviews and features; and ongoing workshops and conferences by the author.” | ||
Sally Goddard Blythe: The Well Balanced Child: Movement and Early Learning.
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John Bradshaw: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem. Eight years after the initial publication of Bradshaw on the Family, John Bradshaw revisits his seminal work on the dynamics of families. In this updated edition, Bradshaw moves beyond the facts on emotionally impaired families and breaks new ground, showing how families can heal themselves and, at the same time, heal the world in which they live. | ||
John Bradshaw: Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child. Bradshaw's Homecoming re-creates the transformative experiences of his workshops, in which participants learn to understand and mourn the damage done to their inner child--the core self with which we are born and which is damaged and hidden when the growing child adapts to life in a dysfunctional family. | ||
Urie Bronfenbrenner: The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and Design. The book's purpose: to offer a new theoretical perspective for research in human development. Bronfenbrenner achieves this goal superbly. . . The synthesis offered in this book is unique...The effect is a perspective on the field of human development that is exciting in its possibilities...This is a usable and practical book...a powerful teaching text...It conveys masterfully the mystery and excitement of scientific investigation. (Contemporary Psychology )
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Urie Bronfenbrenner et al.: The State of Americans: The disturbing facts and figures on changing values, crime, the economy, poverty, family, educat. In this guide to facts and statistics on crime, the economy, changing family structure, poverty, education, changing attitudes and values, and the shift in age structure in the United states, the authors provide not only relevant facts and figures, but also highlight the interrelationships among these factors. They show, for example, how education and changing family structure affect poverty rates and how all three might affect the level of crime in America.
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Great transitions, preparing adolescents for a new century, report of the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development. New York is a philanthropic foundation created by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding. In June 1986, it established the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development to place the challenges of the adolescent years higher on the nation's agenda. An operating program of the foundation, the Council builds on the work of many organizations and individuals to stimulate sustained public attention to the risks and opportunities of the adolescent years and generates public and private support for measures that facilitate the critical transition to adulthood. Composed of national leaders in education, law, science, health, religion, business, the media, youth-serving agencies, and government, the Council has worked within the best tradition of multidisciplinary and interprofessional cooperation. Through task forces and working groups, meetings and seminars, commissioned reports, sponsored studies and other activities, the Council has sought to identify authoritative information about the nature and scope of adolescent problems. It has stimulated public discussion that resulted in well-informed action to foster constructive roles for families, schools, health agencies, community organizations, and the media in developing competent, healthy adolescents. |
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Allen Carr: How to Stop Your Child Smoking. Though only 26 per cent of the UK adult population now smokes (down from a peak of 80 per cent), smoking is actually on the increase among young people. A particular problem exists with teenage girls, though children as young as 8 to 12 are smoking. This book, by the foremost expert in the subject, offers a clear, practical guide to parents on how to stop their children smoking, starting with the first rule of Don't Be Complacent. This is a unique book that addresses a growing problem that all parents worry about.
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Children’s Defense Fund: The State of Children in America’s Union: A 2002 Action Guide to Leave No Child Behind. The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) is a non-profit child advocacy organization that has worked relentlessly for 35 years to ensure a level playing field for all children. We champion policies and programs that lift children out of poverty; protect them from abuse and neglect; and ensure their access to health care, quality education and a moral and spiritual foundation. Supported by foundation and corporate grants and individual donations, CDF advocates nationwide on behalf of children to ensure children are always a priority. The Children's Defense Fund Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. | ||
Noam Chomsky: Chomsky on MisEducation. A collection of Chomsky's influential writings on education. In this book, Noam Chomsky builds a larger understanding of our educational needs, starting with the changing role of schools today, and then broadening our view toward new models of public education for citizenship. Chomsky weaves global technological change and the primacy of responsible media with the democratic role of schools and higher education. A truly democratic society, he argues, cannot thrive in a rapidly changing world unless our approach to education-- formal and otherwise-- is dramatically reformed. |
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Deepak Chopra: The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents: Guiding Your Children to Success and Fulfillment. In The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents: Guiding Your Children to Success and Fulfillment, healer and philosopher Deepak Chopra follows up on his runaway bestseller, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, by extending and reinterpreting his spiritual laws for parents. "From the day your baby is born, you are a teacher of spirit," Chopra writes. "Look upon spirituality as a skill in living, since that is what it is. I believe in imparting these skills as early as possible by whatever means a child can understand." To meet this end, Chopra translates his own "laws" so that even the youngest child can comprehend them. For instance, Chopra's First Law, "The source of all creation is pure consciousness ... pure potentiality seeking expression from the unmanifest to the manifest," translates as "everything is possible." In his wise and deceptively simple program (focusing each day of the week on one of the seven laws), Chopra suggests ways for parents to teach children truly spiritual values by incorporating spiritual goals into family life.
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Hillary Clinton: It takes a village and other lessons children teach us. Hillary Clinton, a longtime child advocate, expresses her concerns for the children of today's world and offers her ideas for developing our society into one that values children's unique contributions. For more than twenty-five years, she has made children her passion and her cause. Her long experience with children -- not only through her personal roles as mother, daughter, sister, and wife but also as advocate, legal expert, and public servant -- has strengthened her conviction that how children develop and what they need to succeed are inextricably entwined with the society in which they live and how well it sustains and supports its families and individuals. In other words, it takes a village to raise a child. She doesn't believe that we should, or can, turn back the clock to the good old days. False nostalgia for family values is no solution. Nor is it useful to make an all-purpose bogeyman or savior of government. But by looking honestly at the condition of our children, by understanding the wealth of new information research offers us about them, and, most important, by listening to the children themselves, we can begin a more fruitful discussion about their needs. And by sifting the past for clues to the structures that once bound us together, by looking with an open mind at what other countries and cultures do for their children that we do not, and by identifying places where our village is flourishing -- in families, schools, churches, businesses, civic organizations, even in cyberspace -- we can begin to create for our children the better tomorrow they deserve. |
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Christopher Clouder and Sally Jen, Eds.: The Future of Childhood: Alliance for Childhood, Articles for the Brussels Conference, October 2000. “Children create our future with their gifts and talents, yet what does childhood mean for us today? Is childhood vanishing under the impact of poverty, commericialism, stress, social breakdown and hot housing? The experience of childhood is influenced by changing cultural patterns and trends. How can we then ensure that all children are given a good foundation for their future life?The Alliance for Childhood is a forum where individuals and organizations can work together out of respect for childhood, in a world-wide effort to improve children’s lives. The Alliance has convened this Brussels Conference to explore the following questions: | ||
Stephen R. Covey: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families. Covey espouses the same seven habits to live by as he did in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, but this time the focus is strictly on the family. While his message is not new, it is written with sincerity and simplicity, and even the most career-driven individual should feel passionate about family after reading this book. Covey contends that all families get off track, mostly because they don't know where the track is headed. The remedy: develop a sense of destination. As in Effective People, each chapter here explains the significance of one of the habits, illustrated by personal stories. Chapters conclude with practical suggestions for putting the habits into action. |
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Cristopher Day, Dolf van Veen and Guido: Children and Youth at Risk and Urban Education. | ||
Jacques Delors: Learning the treasure within, Report to UNESCO of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century. Seeing education as a fundamental role in personal and social development, the report studies the challenges facing education, and formulates suggestions and recommendations for renewal and action for policy makers. The report focuses on UNESCO's four pillars that are the foundations of education. |
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Sharon Detrick: Child Justice : Equal Justice? The right to be heard and the issue of discrimination against children. | ||
Eve M. Dreyfus: Graceful Parenting, Simple Advice for Raising a Gentle and Loving Child. A spirited little book that parents and children can read together, Graceful Parenting is a straightforward and wonderful guide for raising gentle and loving children. A truly unique collaboration between mother and son, twenty-five wise and practical ideas remind parents to take the time to appreciate thespecial relationship between child and parent. From encouraging empathy, to nurturing independence, to discovering the power of simply listening. Graceful Parenting is a tender example of what families can accomplish when they work together. Dr. Eve Dreyfus is a child psychiatrist. |
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Wayne W. Dyer: What Do You Really Want for Your Children?. If you have children, then you have dreams for them. You want to see them growing up happy, healthy, self-reliant, and confident in themselves and their abilities. But if you're a typical parent, you've wondered if you'll be able to give them all this. There's good news: you can.
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Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini, George F: The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach – Advanced Reflections. The city-run early childhood program of Reggio Emilia, Italy, has become recognized and acclaimed as one of the best systems of education in the world. Over the past forty years, educators there have evolved a distinctive innovative approach that supports children's well-being and fosters their intellectual development through a systematic focus on symbolic representation. Young children (from birth to age six) are encouraged to explore their environment and express themselves through many "languages," or modes of expression, including words, movement, drawing, painting, sculpture, shadow play, collage, and music. Leading children to surprising levels of symbolic skill and creativity, the system is not private and elite but rather involves full-day child care open to all, including children with disabilities. This new Second Edition reflects the growing interest and deepening reflection upon the Reggio approach, as well as increasing sophistication in adaptation to the American context. Included are many entirely new chapters and an updated list of resources, along with original chapters revised and extended. The book represents a dialogue between Italian educators who founded and developed the system and North Americans who have considered its implications for their own settings and issues. The book is a comprehensive introduction covering history and philosophy, the parent perspective, curriculum and methods of teaching, school and system organization, the use of space and physical environments, and adult professional roles including special education. The final section describes implications for American policy and professional development and adaptations in United States primary, preschool, and child care classrooms. | ||
David Elkind: The Hurried Child: Growing up too fast too soon. With the first two editions of this landmark work, Dr. David Elkind eloquently called our attention to the dangers of exposing our children to overwhelming pressures, pressures that can lead to a wide range of childhood and teenage crises. Internationally recognized as the voice of reason and compassion, Dr. Elkind showed that in blurring the boundaries of what is age appropriate, by expecting-or imposing-too much too soon, we force our kids to grow up far too fast. In the two decades since this groundbreaking book first appeared, we have compounded the problem, inadvertently stepping up the assault on childhood in the media, in schools, and at home. Taking a detailed, up-to-the-minute look at the world of today's children and teens in terms of the Internet, classroom culture, school violence, movies, television, and a growing societal incivility, Dr. Elkind shows a whole new generation of parents where hurrying occurs and why and what we can do about it. | ||
including children? Developing a coherent approach to child poverty and social exclusion across Europe. | ||
European Constitution. | ||
Euronet: A Children's Policy for the 21st Century Europe: First Steps. | ||
Euronet: A Children’s Policy for 21st-Century Europe: Second Steps. EURONET is made up of national and transnational organisations from across Europe who cooperate to carry out this work, supported by a small Secretariat based in Brussels. It currently has 35 members who are based in 24 different countries. | ||
Commission of the European Communities: Towards an EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child. Brussels, 4.7.2006
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Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Official journal of the European Communities, 19.12.2000
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice an: Report: Towards an EU strategy on the rights of the child.
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European Forum for Child Welfare: Commission Staff Working Paper: Schools for the 21st Century.
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Commission of the European Communities: The Demographic Future of Europe – from Challenge to Opportunity.
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Study Group on “Identities and Functions: The Charter of the City and Childhood Councils. By the Study Group on “Identities and Functions of the City and Childhood Councils” Documentation and Educational Research Center, Preschools and Infant-toddler Centers, Instituzione of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia | ||
European Commission Network on Childcare: Quality Targets in Services for Young Children. | ||
EC Childcare Network: Quality Targets in Services for Young Children. Within the European Commission a Network for Childcare and Other Measures to Reconcile Employment and Family Responsibilities for Women and Men was set up in 1991 and this group published its report in January 1996. Then this Network Group was unfortuately dissolved. Peter Moss was the coordinator. Quality Targets were defined for the following areas:
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A. Faber & E. Mazlish: How to talk to kids so kids will listen & listen so kids will talk. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk provides all the know-how required for happier, more constructive parent-child relations. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down-to-earth, respectful approach of Faber and Mazlish makes interaction with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding. The Christopher Award-winning authors share their latest insights and suggestions based on feedback they've received over the years. Their real-world methods offer children's negative feelings; express anger without being hurtful; set firm limits and maintain goodwill; use alternatives to punishment; resolve family conflicts peacefully. |
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FEANTSA: Youth Homelessness in the European Union. | ||
Viktor E. Frankl: Man's Search for Meaning. Viktor Frankl's 1956 book Man's Search for Meaning chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate and describes his psychotherapeutic method of finding a reason to live. According to Frankl, the book intends to answer the question "How was everyday life in a concentration camp reflected in the mind of the average prisoner?" Part One constitutes Frankl's analysis of his experiences in the concentration camps, while Part Two introduces his ideas of meaning and his theory of logotherapy. | ||
Paulo Freire: Pedagogy of the oppressed. One of the major sources for critical social analysis is the work of the Brazilian educationalist, Paulo Freire, whose work in adult education has influenced people working in education, community development, community health and many other fields. Freire has developed an approach to education that links the identification of issues to positive action for change and development. While Freire's original work was in adult literacy, his approach leads us to think about how we can 'read' the society around us. For Freire, the educational process is never neutral. People can be passive recipients of knowledge - whatever the content - or they can engage in a 'problem-posing' approach in which they become active participants. As part of this approach, it is essential that people link knowledge to action so that they actively work to change their societies at a local level and beyond. Many of Freire's writings are available in English. The most well known of these, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1972) has been very influential. |
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Erich Fromm: The Sane Society.
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Erich Fromm: The Art of Loving. In this work, love is presented as a skill that can be taught and developed. It opposes the idea of loving as something magic and mysterious that cannot be analyzed and explained. | ||
Lella Gandini en George Forman(ed.): The Hundred Languages of Children, The Reggio Emilia Approach, Advanced Reflections, Carolyn Edwards. The city-run early childhood program of Reggio Emilia, Italy, has become recognized and acclaimed as one of the best systems of education in the world. Over the past forty years, educators there have evolved a distinctive innovative approach that supports children's well-being and fosters their intellectual development through a systematic focus on symbolic representation. Young children (from birth to age six) are encouraged to explore their environment and express themselves through many languages, or modes of expression, including words, movement, drawing, painting, sculpture, shadow play, collage, and music. Leading children to surprising levels of symbolic skill and creativity, the system is not private and elite but rather involves full-day child care open to all, including children with disabilities. The book represents a dialogue between Italian educators who founded and developed the system and North Americans who have considered its implications for their own settings and issues. The book is a comprehensive introduction covering history and philosophy, the parent perspective, curriculum and methods of teaching, school and system organization, the use of space and physical environments, and adult professional roles including special education. |
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Howard Gardner: Intelligence Reframed. According to Gardner, there are seven distinct intelligences that can be linked to their own neurological substrate: linguistic intelligence (sensitivity to the spoken and written word and the ability to master languages), logical-mathematical intelligence (the capacity to analyze problems logically and scientifically), musical intelligence (skill in the performance, composition, and appreciation of music), bodily-kinesthetic intelligence (as exemplified by dancers, surgeons, and artists), spatial intelligence (characteristic of pilots, graphic artists, and architects), interpersonal intelligence (a talent for understanding and relating to other people) and intrapersonal intelligence (the capacity for understanding oneself). The purposes of Intelligence Reframed, as Gardner explains in the book's opening pages, is to assess how the theory of multiple intelligences has been assimilated into the culture, to dispel some of the myths that have proliferated around the theory, to examine its practical applications, as well as to survey the evidence for additional varieties of intelligence. Overall, the book provides an excellent summary and overview of Gardner's theory and how it is being applied today, one that is both concise and readily accessible. |
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Sue Gerhardt: Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain.
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Henry a. Giroux: Stealing innocence. | ||
Al and Tipper Gore: Joined at the Heart. Over the past two generations, new economic pressures, profound cultural changes, and rapid demographic shifts have fundamentally altered the way we live our lives. The work week is longer, balancing work and family is harder than ever, and finding high-quality child and elder care is getting increasingly difficult. But if American families can no longer rely on many of the traditional landmarks by which they formerly steered their course, they are finding creative new ways to define, enrich, and honor their commitment to the most essential of all relationships. As they explore the changing nature of the contemporary family, the Gores introduce us to a dozen families they have come to know over the years. Among others, we meet a blended family with six children born to four sets of parents; an interracial family navigating an increasingly accepting world; a gay couple raising two adopted boys; and a divorced couple who organize their lives around caring for their disabled son. The Gores also share stories drawn from their own experiences, and in chapters on such issues as communication, money, play, and resilience, they provide invaluable insight into the ways families are responding -- often with astonishing courage and grace -- to the extraordinary challenges they face every day. |
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Stanley Greenspan: The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, And Intelligence Evolved From Our Primate Ancestors To Modern Humans. When and how did humans acquire the faculty of symbolic thinking? In this study of the origin of human intelligence, the nature-versus-nurture conundrum is no closer to resolution. However, the nurture side of the debate does get a boost here. Greenspan and Shanker, a child psychiatrist and a philosopher, respectively, explicate their 16-level "functional/emotional" framework to support the evidence about human intelligence that they have gathered from the fields of child development, animal (especially chimpanzee) communication, paleoanthropology, sociology, and the history of philosophy. Apart from building their construct, Greenspan and Shanker challenge the nature champions, such as neuroscientists Joseph LeDoux (The Emotional Brain, 1996) and Steven Pinker (The Blank Slate, 2002). Public-library interest is apt to be spotty yet definite for this rather formidable read (main ideas are expressed in polysyllabic phrases such as "co-regulated reciprocal emotional interactions"), especially with research-oriented readers willing to discern, as the authors do, millions of years of social (rather than genetic) evolution in a toddler's amazing mental growth. Gilbert Taylor |
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David Gribble: Real education, varieties of freedom. | ||
Michael Grose: Raising Happy Kids. | ||
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman & Gloria Degaetan: Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence. The first half of this book contains a long essay concerning the entertainment industry and the plethora of violent media it produces. Citing numerous studies with statistics, the authors discuss the increase in violent crimes committed by and involving young people. Examining studies that link media violence and aggressive behavior in children, the authors look at developmental stages of young children who are unable to distinguish fantasy from reality and are desensitized by constant violence in cartoons. Video games come under particular scrutiny--blamed for their addictive elements as well as for honing the shooting skills of juvenile offenders. In addition to demanding that the entertainment industry act more responsibly, giving up the large profits received from producing routine, exploitive violence, the authors advise parents to talk to their children about violence in media and real life. They recommend monitoring, reducing, or in some cases, eliminating screen time, including television, video games, and computers. The book concludes with a directory of organizations and their stands on media violence, lists of media literacy organizations, and extensive book and article citations. |
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Dave Grossman and Gloria Degaetano: Stop Teaching our Kids to Kill : A Call to Action Against TV, Movie & Video Game Violence.
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Carla Hannaford: Awakening the Child Heart. | ||
Peter and Mary Harrison: The Children That Time Forgot (Reincarnation Stories of Children). | ||
Steven Harrison: The Happy Child. Steven Harrison is the founder of The Living School in Boulder, Colorado. In this book is explained how to shape democratic learning communities, where children live as members of a learning community consisting of children, teachers and their parents. In this book Harrison shows us a new way of looking at families, communities and the place of work with the purpose of how to become all really happy. More information look at www.doingnothing.com. |
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Paul Hawken: Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. Hawken traces the formation of the environmental and social justice movement from the beginnings of natural science across years and continents in this rousing and "inadvertently optimistic" call to action. Though it's argued that globalization; extinction of species, languages and cultures; and economic policies advantageous to the rich have degraded quality of life worldwide and engendered large scale feelings of fear, resentment and powerlessness, Hawken remains surprisingly hopeful. Strength, he contends, lies in the many thousands (if not millions) of nonprofits and community organizations dedicated to environmental protection and social justice that collectively form a worldwide movement geared toward humanity's betterment. A combination of history, current events, motivation and vision for the future, Hawken's book does a lot of work in its relatively few pages, though his perspective comes across in some passages as naïve (the thousands of protestors at the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organization meeting merely wanted to "hold WTO accountable"). The book isn't likely to convert members of the World Bank, but readers already sympathetic to Hawken's position will find much here to chew on. | ||
Harville Hendrix & Helen Hunt: Giving the Love that Heals: A Guide for Parents. Harville Hendrix, with his coauthor and wife, Helen Hunt, brings us to a new understanding of the most profound love of all -- by helping parents nurture their own development as they encourage emotional wholeness in their children. This groundbreaking book offers a unique opportunity for personal transformation: by resolving issues that originated in our own childhood, we can achieve a conscious, and thus healthier, relationship with our children, regardless of their age. Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt help us explore:
With other practical, insightful approaches that can powerfully shape the parent-child bond, Giving the Love that Heals gives us the keys to helping our children to become healthy, responsible, and caring people. |
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Sylvia Ann Hewlett: When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting Our Children. Sylvia Ann Hewlett heeft in de VS de National Parenting Association opgericht. Hewlett, an economist, consultant, lecturer, and a volunteer with homeless children, has produced a powerful, extensively researched and often shocking book that explores the plight of a vast number of our children today. She delves into a multitude of problems--substance abuse, emotional instability, and broken homes--that contribute to parental and public neglect. Hewlett also outlines ways society can help to rectify the situation, including educational reform, changes in workplace, and government policies. The author's "no holds barred" approach to the harsh reality of neglect stirs the emotions and will no doubt cause public reaction. This book will be of great interest to professionals and general readers, as it is a well-documented, compelling study that fully analyzes a nationwide problem. | ||
Sylvia Ann Hewlett: Child Neglect in Rich Nations.
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Ivan Illich: Deschooling society. | ||
International Society for Prevention of: Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal. Child Abuse & Neglect The International Journal, provides an international, multidisciplinary forum on all aspects of child abuse and neglect, with special emphasis on prevention and treatment; the scope extends further to all those aspects of life which either favor or hinder child development. While contributions will primarily be from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work, medicine, nursing, law enforcement, legislature, education, and anthropology, the Journal encourages the concerned lay individual and child-oriented advocate organizations to contribute. | ||
International Youth Foundation: Connections: Connecting young people to the opportunities and resources they need to be successful. International Youth Foundation, Annual Report 2004 Vision: We seek a world where every young person has:
Mission: to positively impact the greatest number of young people, in as many places as possible, in the shortest amount of time, with programs that are effective and in ways that are sustainable Strategies:
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Sally Jenkinson: The Genius of Play: Celebrating the Spirit of Childhood.
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Myla en John Kabat-Zinn: Everyday Blessings. | ||
Daniel Kindlon et. al.: Raising Cain. his book exposes the toxic environment faced by adolescent boys. Boys suffer from a too-narrow definition of masculinity, the authors assert as they expose and discuss the relationship between vulnerability and developing sexuality, the culture of cruelty boys live in, the tyranny of toughness, the disadvantages of being a boy in elementary school, how boys' emotional lives are squelched, and what we, as a society, can do about all this without turning boys into girls. Our premise is that boys will be better off if boys are better understood--and if they are encouraged to become more emotionally literate, the authors assert. As a tool for change, Kindlon and Thompsom present the well-developed What Boys Need, seven points that reach far beyond the ordinary psychobabble checklist and slogan list. Kindlon (researcher and psychology professor at Harvard and practicing psychotherapist specializing in boys) and Thompson (child psychologist, workshop leader, and staff psychologist of an all-boys school) have created a chilling portrait of male adolescence in America. Through personal stories and theoretical discussion, this well-needed book plumbs the well of sadness, anger, and fear in America's teenage sons. |
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David Knox & Kermit Legget: Divorced Dad’s Survival Book: How to Stay Connected With Your Kids. The Divorced Dad's Survival Book offers both hope and help for noncustodial fathers who want to stay connected with their children before, during, and after divorce. David Knox, a psychologist and father, is passionate in his premise that dads are not replaceable. The author's purpose is to minimize conflict with the ex-spouse and to encourage fathers to continue being fathers and to emphasize that this goal is always worth pursuing no matter what legal or personal obstacles alienation from their spouse may bring. Knox offers fathers a hefty how-to list: understanding a child's perspective on divorce, creating an optimistic view of divorced fathering, mediating differences with a former spouse, answering the tough questions kids ask, and coping when you fall in love with a new partner and your children don't. These challenges are explored with insightful self-assessments and practical descriptions of what to do--and not do--when your kids are with you and when they are with their mother. |
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David C. Korten: The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community.
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Jane Kroger: Identity Development: Adolescence Through Adulthood.
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Penelope Leach: Children First. As one of the world's leading parenting authorities, Leach addresses in this groundbreaking and eye-opening book what our society must do- and is not doing- for our children today. Deeply concerned about the inadequate support and parenting children receive in today's marketplace society, she challenges us to put families and children first, and suggests innovative ways that not only society but individual parents can bring about a change in priorities. Hardcover edition. The base of this book has been marked with a black marker by the publisher. This small mark identifies the book as a remainder/overstock item, and no way designates the book as defective or inferior. |
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Jean Liedloff: The continuüm concept. Liedloff did research with an Indian tribe called Yequana in South America and discovered that children were treated in a completely different way as we are used to do it in the West. The book caused a revolution and all over the Western world Liedloff foundations were set up. More information: www.attachmentparenting.nl. | ||
Betty Jean Lifton: The King of Children: a Biography of Janusz Korczak.
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John Macbeath: Self-evaluation in European Schools + artikel over hem in NRC Handelsblad op 23.2.02, pagina 39. (Landelijk testsysteem. | ||
Lesley Mandel Morrow: Family Literacy, Connections in Schools and Communities. How can educators involved in family literacy initiatives be confident they are providing beneficial, rather than intrusive, experiences? What role should the community play in family literacy issues? How can schools, families, and organizations better collaborate to enhance literacy development for both children and their caregivers? This volume--developed by IRA's Family Literacy Commission--presents a wide variety of school-based and organization-sponsored programs and initiatives that address these questions. With it, practitioners and researchers will learn how others are responding to the needs of families and will gain insight into how to develop new programs. |
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Del Martin: Battered Wives. Battered Wives is the first (and still the best) general introduction to the problem of abuse. Battered Wives includes excellent critical summaries of the legal and political status of battered wives and the extent to which their immediate predicament must be understood in broad political terms. Del Martin argues that the basis of the problem is not in husband/wife interaction or immediate triggering events, but in the institution of marriage, historical attitudes toward women, the economy, and inadequacies in legal and social service systems. Martin wants police and prosecutor functions constrained. She proposes specific legislation prohibiting wife abuse and suggest that judges protect the wife by closing the door to probation and de-emphasizing reconciliation. Other recommendations concern gun control, equal rights, and marriage contract legislation. Battered Wives is the seminal, benchmark title on the subject of domestic violence. |
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William Martin: The Parent's Tao Te Ching.
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Michael Mendizza and Joseph Chilton Pear: Magical Parent, Magical Child, the Optimum learning Relationship. Psychologists and scientists call it Flow, athletes call it the Zone, and children call it Play. If we are in this state our performance is optimal. This book describes how to use this knowledge in the education process of our children. |
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John P. Miller: Education and the Soul, toward a spiritual curriculum. Education and the Soul is the first book to comprehensively address how the soul can be nourished in educational settings. The book explores the nature of the soul and offers teaching/learning approaches that can be used to nurture the development of students' souls. It also examines how institutions such as schools have souls and what can be done to care for a school's spiritual life. |
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Ron Miller: Creating Learning Communities: Models, resources and new Ways of Thinking about Teaching and Learning. |
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Colleen Cordes and Edward Miller, Editor: Fool’s Gold: A Critical Look at Computers in Childhood.
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Ron Miller, Editor: Creating Learning Communities: Models, Resources, and New Ways of Thinking about Teaching and Learning.
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Alice Miller: Pictures of a Childhood.
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John P. Miller: Education and the Soul: Toward a Spiritual Curriculum.
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Mobile Creches: Labour Mobility and Rights of Children. Young children and their working mothers are one of the most vulnerable sections living in poverty, in India today. While the adults toil, young children suffer neglect and the older ones bear the responsibility of adult chores. Mobile Creches has been a presence in this landscape since 1969.
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Phyllis Moen, Glen H. Elder, Editors: Examining Lives in Context: Perspectives on the Ecology of Human Development. “Urie Bronfenbrenner's ecological approach to studying development has transformed the ways many social and behavioural scientists approach human beings and their environments. In the research presented in this volume, the experience of change over the life course is illuminated by the simultaneous examination of person, process, context, space and time. Among the areas explored by leaders in the field are: individual differences in environmental risk; transgenerational perspectives on resiliency; nature/nurture and culture; bioecological models of intellectual development; gender differences in socialization; authoritative parenting; and turning points in adult lives.” | ||
Mario Montessori: Education for Human Development: Understanding Montessori, by her son. | ||
Rosabeth Moss Kanter: World Class. s Kanter shows how businesses and communities can harness global market forces and make them work to their advantage right here at home. At a time when the nation's fears about job displacement and foreign competition are sparking protectionist sympathies and backlash against world trade agreements, Kanter presents a persuasive and richly detailed argument for directing the American economy outward, not inward. World Class shows us how to turn globalization into an unprecedented opportunity on the local level - to rejuvenate old businesses and grow new ones, to create new jobs, to revitalize communities, and to develop the cosmopolitan cities of the future. It is a two-way street, Kanter writes. Businesses must become more actively involved in their communities. And communities must actively develop those amenities and resources that will encourage global businesses to feel at home - and stay there. And finally, Kanter presents a detailed action agenda for both business and community leaders that will enable them to achieve their mutually beneficial goals. |
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Gary Neuman: Helping your kids cope with divorce, the Sandcastles Way. Kids tend to blame themselves when parents divorce. The Sandcastles workshop--now mandatory in over a dozen counties throughout the United States--is a half-day group session for children of divorce between the ages of 6 and 17. This intensive workshop helps kids open up and deal with their feelings through drawings, games, poetry, role playing, and other activities. Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce details many of the workshop exercises, all designed to increase communication, understanding, and togetherness between parents and kids. The book is also packed full of suggestions on everything from the best way to break the divorce news to a child (it differs according to age group) to facing the holidays, visitation, custody arrangements, anger, discipline, co-parenting, single parenting, overcompensation, sorrow, custody fights, and much more. |
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M. Gary Neuman: Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way.
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Nel Noddings: Philosophy of Education. Philosophy of Education is designed for general students of education who need to know something about philosophical thought and its exercise in teaching, learning, research, and educational policy. It assumes no previous training in philosophy. Ranging broadly from the great historical figures through John Dewey to contemporary representatives of both analytic and Continental traditions, it is always fair-minded, generous, and undogmatic. Attractive features are the author's nondoctrinaire feminism, her commitment to the empowerment of students, and her coverage of the most recent trends in educational thought. This is an essential book not just for teachers and for future teachers but for anyone needing a survey of contemporary trends in the philosophy of education. |
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Nel Noddings: The Challenge to Care in Schools. Nel Noddings envisions a school system built on the idea that different people have different strengths, and that those strengths should be cultivated in an environment of caring, not of competition (Noddings, 1992). Noddings describes themes of care as including: caring for self, caring for the inner circle, for strangers and distant others, for animals, plants and the Earth, for the human-made world, and for the world of ideas. |
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National Research Council, Institute of: From Neurons to Neighborhoods, The Science of Early Childhood Development. | ||
Martha Nussbaum: Cultivating Humanity, a Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education. How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such citizens of the world in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross-cultural studies. Her vigorous defense of the new education is rooted in Seneca's ideal of the citizen who scrutinizes tradition critically and who respects the ability to reason wherever it is found--in rich or poor, native or foreigner, female or male. |
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Martha Nussbaum: Women and Human Development, The Capabilities Approach. Proposing a new kind of feminism that is genuinely international, Martha Nussbaum argues for an ethical underpinning to all thought about development planning and public policy, and dramatically moves beyond the abstractions of economists and philosophers to embed thought about justice in the concrete reality of the struggles of poor women. In this book, Nussbaum argues that international political and economic thought must be sensitive to gender difference as a problem of justice, and that feminist thought must begin to focus on the problems of women in the third world. Taking as her point of departure the predicament of poor women in India, she shows how philosophy should undergird basic constitutional principles that should be respected and implemented by all governments, and used as a comparative measure of quality of life across nations. Nussbaum concludes by calling for a new international focus to feminism, and shows through concrete detail how philosophical arguments about justice really do connect with the practical concerns of public policy. |
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Edmund O'Sullivan: Transformative Learning, Educational Vision for the 21st Century. In this book Edmund O'Sullivan has brought a deeply moving and deeply thoughtful vision to the discourse of educational reform. Rather than simply offering a critique of the modernist meta-narratives that have shaped education since the Enlightenment, O'Sullivan offers up a new grand narrative, or mythic vision, which he argues is necessary if we are to educate for the survival and sustainability of our planet. In so doing, he bravely ventures along a pathway that many postmodern and critical theorist angels fear to tread. |
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Preparing Youth for the Twenty-first Century: the Transition from Education to the Labour Market, OECD. Young people's situation and future prospects are of vital concern to us all. Many of them face high unemployment or joblessness and serious difficulties in getting a firm foothold into the labour market. Many leave school without the requisite skills or competences needed in today’s economy and society. Many are also experiencing falling relative (and sometimes real) wages and considerable uncertainty as to whether or not they will be able to settle into good careers. But at the same time, our ageing societies need, more than ever before, to harness the potential of all of our young people. This publication points the way to future initiatives to improve youth labour market and educational outcomes as identified by policy-makers and experts of OECD countries brought together at the Washington Conference Preparing Youth for the 21st Century: The Policy Lessons from the Past Two Decades, held on 23-24 February 1999. To give the most comprehensive picture to date, it first puts today's challenges into a historical perspective by taking stock of two decades of policies for youth employment. But more substantially, this book provides insight into experiences and policy issues in the United States, as well as in Europe and Japan, with a stress on the special needs of disadvantaged youth. |
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H. Lohmann, F.H. Peter, T. Rostgaard and: Towards a Framework for Assessing Family Policies in the EU. This report presents the results of a first attempt to create a framework for assessing the performance of national family policies. The report is part of a joint EU and OECD project, which aims to help the EU Government Expert Group on Demographic Issues in evaluating national family policies. The idea behind the framework is that it allows individual countries to compare their overall performance in the area of family policies with the performance of other countries. The main focus of the report is policies for families with smaller children. The framework provides a set of cross-nationally comparable indicators on contexts, policy measures, and outcomes, organised on a systematic basis. The policy measure indicators presented in the report cover leave schemes, early childhood education and care, family benefits and workplace policies. The indicators build upon, inter alia, previous work by the OECD in various studies on family-friendly policies that were carried out on a cross-national basis using different sets of indicators. Most of these indicators are today available in the OECD Family Database. Wherever the OECD Family Database contains indicators for the majority of EU member states and OECD countries, these data have been used in the present study. Otherwise, data from other cross-national databases have been included. Each indicator in the framework is presented as a single-standing indicator in the general absence of scientific consensus on different aggregation weights. In the report no explicit ranking of countries has been attempted, instead the relative position of countries has been illustrated with the help of standard deviation scores. The report offers tools for assessment that may be developed further, and should offer an approach to using the OECD Family Database, acknowledging this unique data source for cross-country comparisons in the field of family policy. | ||
OECD: Preparing Youth for the 21st Century: The transition from education to the labour market.
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OECD: Starting Strong II: Early Childhood Education and Care.
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OECD: PISA 2006: Science Competencies for Tomorrow's World.
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OSCE: Toledo Guiding Principles on Teaching about Religions and Beliefs in Public Schools.
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Audrey Osler and Hugh Starkey: Changing Citizenship, Democracy and Inclusion in Education. The book explores the role that schools can play in creating a new vision of citizenship for multicultural democracies. |
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Joyce Outshoorn (ed.): The Politics of Prostitution, women’s Movements, Democratic States and the globalisation of Sex Commerce. | ||
Sue Palmer: Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About It.
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Joseph Chilton Pearce: From magical Child to Magical Teen, a guide to Adolescent Development.. This book was first published in 1985 and has become a classic. In this book Chilton Pearce describes in detail the development of the brain in connection with the development of the child as a human being. From this perspective he describes what a brain needs in the various phases of its growth to enable a child or a teen to develop in an optimal way. Chilton Pearce will soon publish a new book entitled The Death of Religion and Rebirth of Spirit. | ||
Dave Pelzer: A Child Called 'It'. As a child, Dave was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous games--games that left him Dave nearly dead. With only his willpower to survive, Dave learned how to play his Mother's sinister games in order to survive because she no longer considered Dave a son but a slave, and no longer a boy but an It. Although A Child Called It contains situations of mistreatment Dave suffered, it is a real life story of the indomitable human spirit. This gripping account is told through the eyes of a child--who will pay any price in order to succeed. |
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Jack P. Shonkoff and Deborah A. Phillips: From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development.
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Roelie Post: Romania For Export Only: The untold story of the Romanian 'orphans'.
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Robert Reich: The Work of Nations. We are living through a transformation that will rearrange the politics and economics of the coming century, according to Robert Reich. As we move into the borderless economy, the notion of national products, national technologies, and national corporations will become increasingly meaningless. The only thing that will remain rooted within national borders are the people who make up a nation. This shift has enormous political implications, Reich contends. It means that the traditional idea of national solidarity and purpose can no longer be defined in purely economic terms. It also leads to fragmentation, Reich argues, as those citizens best positioned to thrive in the world market are tempted to slip the bonds of national allegiance, and by so doing disengage themselves from their less favored fellows. |
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Carl Rogers: Freedom to learn. The voices of Carl Rogers and Jerry Freiberg blend in a beautiful cantata challenging us to decide what we want from our schools. What should children know and be able to do in order to participate, thrive and contribute to our democratic society? Freedom to Learn shows us we can have what we want. |
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Carl Rogers: On becoming a person. The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy with his concept of client-centered therapy His influence has spanned decades, but that influence has become so much a part of mainstream psychology that the ingenious nature of his work has almost been forgotten in the United States. (In Europe his methods are taught in academia). A new introduction by Peter Kramer sheds light on the significance of Dr. Rogers' work today. New discoveries in the field of psychopharmacology, especially that of the antidepressant Prozac, have spawned a quick-fix drug revolution that has obscured the psychotherapeutic relationship. As the pendulum slowly swings back toward an appreciation of the therapeutic encounter, Dr. Rogers' Client-centered therapy becomes particularly timely and important. |
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Sally Schweizer: Well, I Wonder: Childhood in the Modern World.
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M. Scott Peck: The road less travelled. By melding love, science, and religion into a primer on personal growth, M. Scott Peck launched his highly successful writing and lecturing career with this book. Even to this day, Peck remains at the forefront of spiritual psychology as a result of The Road Less Traveled. In the era of I'm OK, You're OK, Peck was courageous enough to suggest that life is difficult and personal growth is a complex, arduous and lifelong task. His willingness to expose his own life stories as well as to share the intimate stories of his anonymous therapy clients creates a compelling and heartfelt narrative. |
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Peter Senge: Schools that Learn. In a fast-changing world where school violence is a growing concern, where standardized tests are applied as simplistic quick fixes, where rapid advances in science and technology threaten to outpace schools' effectiveness, where the average tenure of a school district superintendent is less than three years, and where students, parents, and teachers feel weighed down by increasing pressures, Schools That Learn offers much-needed material for the dialogue about the educating of children in the twenty-first century. One of the great strengths of Schools That Learn is its description of practices that are meeting success across the country and around the world, as schools attempt to learn, grow, and reinvent themselves using the principles of organizational learning. The book offers a wealth of practical tools, anecdotes, and advice that people can use to help schools (and the classrooms in them and communities around them) learn to learn. |
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Peter Senge: Schools that Learn: A fifth discipline fieldbook for educators, parents, and everyone who cares about education.
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Daniel J. Siegel and Mary Hartzell: Parenting from the Inside Out, How deeper self-understanding can help raise children who thrive. | ||
Daniel J. Siegel and Mary Hartzell: Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help you Raise Children who Thrive.
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Sobonfu E. Somé: Welcoming Spirit Home: Ancient African Teachings to Celebrate Children and Community. | ||
Professor Alan Sroufe and Professor Alla: The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and Design. “Disruptive children, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, depression and crime, are problems that share a common origin. It’s the quality of the earliest relationships formed between parents and their babies that predispose the behavior of children towards a social or antisocial life. There’s now overwhelming long-term scientific evidence that points to the first two years of a person’s life as the critical period for their personality traits to become established. An understanding of the causes of social breakdown and common personality disorders is the first step to formulating remedial policies that will provide a supportive environment for young families.” | ||
Kevin Steede, Ph. D.: 10 Most Common Mistakes Good Parents Make: And How to Avoid Them. Outlining the ten ultimate No-No's for parenting, Dr. Steede discusses how to avoid these common, predictable, and preventable parent traps that have such negative outcomes. Each chapter includes a self-test to reinforce those principles to parents. Kevin Steede, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist who specializes in childhood and adolescent behavioral problems. Dr. Steede operates a private practice and works with the Dallas Psychotherapy Group in Dallas, Texas. |
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Edmund o'Sullivan: Transformative Learning: Educational Vision for the 21st Century.
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Was created to protect the most basic rights of children, including the rights to identity, education, shelter, safety and special protection in times of war. This convention, adopted by the U.N. General Assembly by the unanimous vote in 1989, is the most universally accepted human rights document in history. However, once adopted, each of the U.N. nation states must ratify the convention and incorporate it into their legal system in order to put the protection of rights into effect. Of the 189 nations in the U.N., just two have not ratified the convention: Somalia, which has no stable government, and the United States of America. Additionally, the Optional Protocol on Children and Armed Conflict was written to protect children under the age of 18 from recruitment into armed forces. This important document has been ratified by only four nations so far and again, the United States is not one of these nations. Learn more about this convention, about why the United States has not ratified it, and about what you can do to help make sure that all nations prioritize and protect children's rights. |
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UNICEF: The State of the World's Children 2007: Women and Children.
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UNICEF: The Child Care Transition.
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UNICEF: Child Poverty in Rich Countries 2005.
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UNICEF: A guide to general comment 7: 'Implementing child rights in early childhood'.
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Institute of Education: University of Lo: The Continuing Effects of Pre-school Education at Age 7 Years.
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Various authors: Reggio children's publications (Italy). BOOKS ABOUT CONSTRUCTING KNOWLEDGE |
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Eugeen Verhellen, Editor: Monitoring Children's Rights.
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Verwey-Jonker Instituut: Kinderen in Tel Databook 2006. The situation and well-being of children must be monitored in a systematic and comparable way | ||
Harry Daniels, Michael Cole, James V. We: The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky.
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James T. Webb and Elisabeth A. Meckstrot: Guiding the Gifted Child. The suicide of Dallas Egbert was the immediate cause for this book. Dalles Egbert was a highly gifted 17- year old boy. After his death his parents started to investigate what kind of programs were available to guide highly gifted children. It turned out that there were hardly such programs. They contacted James Webb and that is how the whole project got started. The book is written for parents and gives suggestions how to strengthen the emotional intelligence of their children, their respect of self and trust in themselves, how to recognise highly giftedness and how to help your child to develop nurturing relationships with friends etc. It also gives guidance to teachers and schools. | ||
George H. Wood: Schools That Work: America's most innovative public education programs. In a fresh, positive and practical approach to the crisis in American education, professional educator Wood tells of the search that led him to innovative schools across the country, where students aren't just getting by--they are excited about the learning process. Unencumbered by abstract theory and academic jargon, Wood's book brings a message of hope to all who are concerned with the plight of American education.
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