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The Failed Century of the Child
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Governing America's Young in the Twentieth Century
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521828789
Veröffentl:
2014
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
08.04.2014
Seiten:
386
Autor:
Judith Sealander
Gewicht:
778 g
Format:
235x157x27 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Charts the effort to use state regulation to guarantee health and security for America's children.
Part I. Children's Welfare: 1. Juvenile justice: from 'child saving' to 'public accountability'; 2. 'The Pontius Pilate' routine: government responses to child abuse; 3. 'Illusory promises': state aid to poor children; Part II. Children's Work: 4. 'Inducting into adulthood': state reactions to the labor of children and adolescents; Part III. Children's Education: 5. 'Laying down principles in the dark': the consequences of compulsory secondary education; 6. The return of the infant school: twentieth century preschool education; 7. Public education of disabled children: 'rewriting one of the saddest chapters'; Part IV. Children's Health: 8. 'Shaped up' by the state: government attempts to improve children's diets, exercise regimes, and physical fitness; 9. Mandatory medicine: twentieth century childhood immunization.