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Free Download Yahya Harun, "Wonderful Creatures: Children! Have You Ever Thought? 3"
English | 2003 | pages: 129 | ISBN: 1842000470 | PDF | 4,3 mb
Description from the Part 3 of a beautifully illustrated series of books for children highlighting the ingenuity of the animals around us. In full colour. Recommended for ages 10 and over.

Free Download What Do Children Need to Flourish?: Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development By Kristin Anderson Moore, Laura H. Lippman (auth.), Kristin Anderson Moore, Laura H. Lippman (eds.)
2005 | 390 Pages | ISBN: 0387230610 | PDF | 23 MB
Regardless of its validity, many adults share a belief that today’s youth face an inauspicious future. Drugs, sex, violence, disintegration of the nuclear family, technology that replaces interpersonal relationships-that’s what you hear in the news. The media, through its dramatization of the dangers and risks children confront and pose, have created a well-established image of disenfranchised, hostile, and often-destructive children and adolescents. This image ignores the many children who are thriving as well as the possibility of positive outcomes for children and youth.With children comprising roughly 30% of the global population-almost 2 billion children worldwide-understanding exactly what leads children to grow into confident, caring, responsible adults is an issue that belongs at the forefront of every nation’s agenda. Increasingly, it is understood that we need not only to prevent negative outcomes but to promote positive outcomes.What Do Children Need to Flourish? Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development, part of the Search Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society, focuses on how scholars and practitioners can begin to build rigorous measures of the healthy behaviors and attitudes that result in positive outcomes for children and youth. The volume is presented in five parts: – Introduction and conceptual framework. – Positive formation of the self-character, values, spirituality, life satisfaction, hope, and ethnic identity. – Healthy habits, positive behaviors, and time use. – Positive relationships with parents and siblings. – Positive attitudes and behaviors toward learning and school environments. – Enacting positive values and behaviors in communities.What Do Children Need to Flourish? Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development is an important volume for researchers and practitioners-in fact, for anyone interested and involved in working with children and adolescents.

Free Download The Torture of Children During Armed Conflicts: The ICC’s Failure to Prosecute and the Negation of Children’s Human Dignity By Sonja C. Grover (auth.)
2014 | 228 Pages | ISBN: 3642406882 | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines selected legal complexities of the notion of torture and the issue of the proper foundation for legally characterizing certain acts as torture, especially when children are the targeted victims of torture. ICC case law is used to highlight the International Criminal Court’s reluctance in practice to prosecute as a separable offence the crime of torture as set out in one or more of the relevant provisions of the Rome Statute where children are the particularized targets as part of a common plan during armed conflict. Also addressed is the failure of the ICC to consider that the young age of the victims of torture (i.e. children) should be an aggravating factor taken into account in determining the ICC sentence for those convicted of the torture of civilians, including children, in the context of armed conflict as part of a common plan. The six UN-designated grave crimes against children (including child soldiering for State or non-State forces perpetrating mass atrocities, and sexual violence perpetrated on a systematic and widespread basis against children including child soldiers), it is argued, are also instances of the torture of children as part of a common plan such that separate charges of torture are legally supportable (along with the other charges relating to additional Rome Statute offences involved in such circumstances). Useful legal perspectives on the issue of the torture of children in its various manifestations gleaned from the case law of other international judicial forums such as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the ICTY are also examined.

Free Download Philip Vickerman, "Teaching Physical Education to Children With Special Educational Needs"
English | 2007 | pages: 144 | ISBN: 0415389496, 041538950X | PDF | 1,1 mb
Offering practical strategies to include children with SEN fully into physical education, this unique title:

Free Download Malena Janson, "Swedish Children’s Cinema: History, Ideology and Aesthetics"
English | ISBN: 3031570006 | 2024 | 323 pages | EPUB, PDF | 14 MB + 26 MB
Swedish children’s cinema has a long and rich history. It encompasses the rascal films of the 1920s, the realism of the 1940s, the ambitious artistic renewal of the 1970s, the child empowering films of the 1990s through the early 2000s, and the multiple, exceedingly popular, Astrid Lindgren adaptations across the decades. Devoted to exploring this cinematographic legacy, this book offers close readings across academic disciplines, probing various genres, eras, media debates, transmediations, and audience-receptions. Childhood studies, with its critical comprehension of society’s changing notions of childhood, here serves as a key framework in fruitful combination with, inter alia, feminist, queer, intermedial, postcolonial, and eco-critical perspectives. This collection fills an important knowledge gap on Swedish film history as well as the distinctly Nordic tradition of children’s culture, and thereby contributes to the burgeoning field of international children’s cinema research. It is introduced with a foreword by Mark Cousins.

Free Download Stella Meng Wang, "Space and Everyday Lives of Children in Hong Kong: The Interwar Period "
English | ISBN: 3031444000 | 2023 | 286 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Deploying a spatial approach towards children’s everyday life in interwar Hong Kong, this book considers the context-specific development of five transnational movements: the garden city movement; imperial hygiene movement; nationalist sentiments; the Young Women’s Christian Association; and the Girl Guide. Locating these transnational cultural movements in four layers of context, from the most immediate to the most global, including the context of Hong Kong, Republican China, the British empire, and global influences, this book shows Hong Kong as a distinctive colonial domain where the imperatives around race, gender and class produced new products of empire where the child, the garden, the school and sport turned out to be the main dynamics in play in the interwar period.

Free Download Antonio Silva Esquinas, "Researching Social Media with Children: #DigitalEthnography #Storytelling"
English | ISBN: 1032506172 | 2024 | 92 pages | PDF | 1476 KB
Reflecting on the methodological issues involved in researching digital spaces with children, this book shares good practices and delves into the ethics of such research.

Free Download Krystina Madej, "Representation of Disability in Children’s Video Games "
English | ISBN: 103255388X | 2024 | 122 pages | EPUB, PDF | 609 KB + 8 MB
Representation of Disability in Children’s Video Games looks at how children’s engagement with characters and stories in video games helps create the perception of disability they have as teens and adults. Drawing on child development theory supported by neuroscience, the book shows how the scaffold of information, the schema, adults have of disability is first created at a very young age as they interact through play with characters with disabilities in narrative video games.

Free Download Stephen M. Stahl, "Prescriber’s Guide – Children and Adolescents: Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1009267507 | 2024 | 604 pages | PDF | 82 MB
This extensively revised second edition provides a user-friendly step-by-step manual on the range of psychotropic medications prescribed for children and adolescents by clinicians and nurse practitioners. Boasting nearly double the medications of the first edition, it features new sections related to pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenetics in children and adolescents alongside algorithms for addressing frequently encountered disorders such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and OCD. Based on the best-seller, Stahl’s Prescriber’s Guide, and using a full-color template-driven navigation system, it combines evidence-based data with clinically informed guidance to support prescribers in the field. Each drug is presented in the same classic design format with illustrated guidance on dosing, titration, and pharmacogenetics/metabolism. Color-coded sections distinguish clearly the information presented on therapeutics, safety and tolerability, dosing and use, what to expect, and the art of psychopharmacology, and are followed by updated and new key references. A must-have guide for all mental health professionals.

Free Download Playing with Languages: Children and Change in a Caribbean Village By Amy L. Paugh
2012 | 266 Pages | ISBN: 0857457608 | PDF | 3 MB
Over several generations villagers of Dominica have been shifting from Patwa, an Afro-French creole, to English, the official language. Despite government efforts at Patwa revitalization and cultural heritage tourism, rural caregivers and teachers prohibit children from speaking Patwa in their presence. Drawing on detailed ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of video-recorded social interaction in naturalistic home, school, village and urban settings, the study explores this paradox and examines the role of children and their social worlds. It offers much-needed insights into the study of language socialization, language shift and Caribbean children’s agency and social lives, contributing to the burgeoning interdisciplinary study of children’s cultures. Further, it demonstrates the critical role played by children in the transmission and transformation of linguistic practices, which ultimately may determine the fate of a language. Amy L. Paugh is Associate Professor of Anthropology at James Madison University. Her research investigates language socialization, children’s cultures and language ideologies in the Caribbean and United States.