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Children of a New World : Society, Culture, and Globalization
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Paula S. Fass, a pathbreaker in children's history and the history of education, turns her attention in Children of a New World to the impact of globalization on children's lives, both in the Unite...
Paula S. Fass, a pathbreaker in children's history and the history of education, turns her attention in Children of a New World to the impact of globalization on children's lives, both in the United States and on the world stage. Globalization, privatization, the rise of the "work-centered" family, and the triumph of the unregulated marketplace, she argues, are revolutionizing the lives of children today. Fass begins by considering the role of the school as a fundamental component of social formation, particularly in a nation of immigrants like the United States. She goes on to examine childre.
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- English
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- New York : NYU Press, 2006
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- 1 online resource (11 pages)
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- ISBNs
- 9780814728529, 0814728529, 9780814727560
- OCLC
- ocn782877936
- Introduction: Children in society, culture, and the world -- Immigration and education in the United States -- The IQ : a cultural and historical framework -- Creating new identities : youth and ethnicity in New York City high schools in the 1930s and 1940s -- Making and remaking an event : the Leopold and Loeb case in American culture -- A sign of family disorder? : changing representations of parental kidnapping -- Bringing it home : children, technology, and family in the post-World War II world -- Children and globalization -- Children in global migrations -- Children of a new world
Subjects
- Children -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Children -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- Education -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Immigrant children -- Education -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Socialization -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Children in popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Globalization -- Social aspects.