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  • CHILDHOOD INTO ADOLESCENCE
    JOHN NEWSON / ELIZABETH NEWSON
    This book is about the lives of 11-year-old children growing up in a Midlands city in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Based on interviews with their parents, it describes family life at the time, as well as the experiences, hopes and concerns of the children as they themselves become adolescents. The book reflects upon the changes that occur for children in the transitional perio...

    $1,380.00

  • SEVEN YEARS OLD IN THE HOME ENVIRONMENT
    JOHN NEWSON / ELIZABETH NEWSON
    John and Elizabeth Newson’s long-term investigation of child up-bringing attracted intense interest from its earliest beginnings: ‘pathbreaking’ and ‘seminal’ were adjectives that greeted their first report. The study is now established as one of the major projects of the seventies. This third volume of the series catches some seven hundred Nottingham children at a critical sta...

    $980.00

  • TOYS AND PLAYTHINGS
    JOHN NEWSON / ELIZABETH NEWSON
    John and Elizabeth Newson were well known for their studies of child rearing, which have combined a rigorous research methodology with sympathetic insights into family life and a lively approach to scientific reporting. ‘Path-breaking’, ‘brilliant’, ‘seminal’, ‘outstanding’, ‘fascinating’, ‘enthralling’ and ‘enchanting’ are some of the adjectives used by critics to describe the...

    $980.00

  • THE FAMILY AND THE HANDICAPPED CHILD
    ELIZABETH NEWSON
    This book describes an inquiry into the upbringing of young cerebral palsied children. Following the precedent set by John and Elizabeth Newson in their studies of normal children at home; Sheila Hewett visited the mothers of 180 spastic children and obtained their personal accounts of their experiences.There is considerable literature on handicapped children in which the adver...

    $1,320.00

  • FOUR YEARS OLD IN AN URBAN COMMUNITY
    JOHN NEWSON / ELIZABETH NEWSON
    Although psychologists by training, John and Elizabeth Newson have more aptly been described as pioneers in social ecology; they work from the conviction that the causes and the consequences of child-rearing attitudes can fruitfully be investigated only in the framework of the total social environment in which they occur. This book continues their analysis of child rearing in a...

    $1,460.00

  • INFANT CARE AND MOTHERHOOD IN AN URBAN COMMUNITY
    JOHN NEWSON / ELIZABETH NEWSON
    Infant Care and Motherhood in an Urban Community investigates the behavior and attitudes of 709 mothers towards their year-old babies. John and Elizabeth Newson, impatient with the voluminous and contradictory literature telling parents how their children should be brought up, decided to find out how they were being brought up. Infant Care in an Urban Community is focused on so...

    $1,320.00

  • FOUR YEARS OLD IN AN URBAN COMMUNITY
    JOHN NEWSON / ELIZABETH NEWSON
    John and Elizabeth Newson investigate the upbringing of seven hundred Nottingham children as they reach the age of four. Parents are interviewed in their homes with a realistic yet human approach and the minimum of technical jargon, and the open-ended questions allow them to produce 'a detailed and descriptive study of how parents do in fact treat their children and - equally i...

    $1,280.00

  • PERSPECTIVES ON SCHOOL AT SEVEN YEARS OLD
    ELIZABETH NEWSON
    This volume looks at the social and intellectual forces which the child encounters in class-room and playground from the parent’s point of view. School and home are seen as the separate yet overlapping worlds of childhood – for some children more uncompromisingly separated than for others. In the social development of the child, school functions as a link between the kinds of d...

    $1,340.00