Understanding Your Baby by Kyra Karmiloff

Understanding Your Baby by Kyra Karmiloff

On Third World streets or First World televisions, Latin America's children are seen but seldom listened to. Child labourers, street children and shanty town kids are portrayed in the West as helpless victims, passive, big-eyed and hungry, besieged by poverty and violence. However, this text argues that if you talk to the children themselves a different picture emerges - one of children as active, energetic and resourceful fighters, struggling to improve their lives, get an education, and earn a living. The book explores the lives of children through their own eyes and voices. It argues that child participation is both a right and a necessity if child-centred social programmes are to succeed. More broadly, harnessing the energy of children could help the region tackle pressing environmental and social problems. Duncan Green talks to children across the continent, watching them at work and play, on the streets or in the home. He interviews children in Brazil, Jamaica, Peru, Columbia, Honduras and Nicaragua, as well as teachers, welfare workers and other adults involved in their lives. He provides comprehensive background research to support his findings, while photographs illustrate the text.

Kyra Karmiloff, MsC, a research psychologist, has been the main editor and writer for Pampers.com parenting website. Dr Annette Karmiloff-Smith PhD is a professorial research fellow at the Developmental Neurocognition Lab at Birkbeck, University of London. Together they have created a number of works on infant development. Dr Annette Karmiloff-Smith PhD, is Professor of Psychology at University College, London. She is Senior Research Scientist at the Medical Research Council's Cognitive Development Unit in London, researching various aspects of infant and child development. She has appeared on numerous television and radio programmes, and acted as scientific consultant to the award-winning television series Baby It's You, for which, in collaboration with her daughter, Kyra Karmiloff, she wrote the accompanying best selling book. Other publications include A Functional Approach to Child Language (CUP), Beyond Modularity: A Developmental Perspective on Cognitive Science (MIT Press)

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ISBN 13	9780600631644
ISBN 10	0600631648
Title	Understanding Your Baby
Author	Kyra Karmiloff
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Octopus Publishing Group
Year published	2015-08-04
Number of pages	160
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