Overview
- Presents cutting-edge scholarship based on the exploration of new methodological approaches to studying the lives of children and young people
- Makes a significant contribution to the development of innovative theoretical and pedagogical frameworks to enable the study of the body and embodiment
- Applies conceptual advancements to empirical analyses of key areas of youth studies, lending a series of insights into a wide range of contemporary practices such as ‘sexting’; media consumption; sport and exercise; and participation in dance and theatre performance
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Perspectives on Children and Young People (PCYP, volume 2)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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The Young Body: Gender and Sexualities
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The Young Body: Reconceptualising Health, Illness and Recovering
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Embodying Research and Pedagogy
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Shelley Budgeon is a senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has published widely in the areas of gender and feminist theory; personal relationships; and self-identity and social change in journals includingSociology, Body and Society, the European Journal of Women’s Studies, the Women’s Studies International Forum and Sexualities. Her monographs include Choosing a Self (Praegar) and Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Gender in Late Modernity (Palgrave).
Helen Cahill is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. She works in youth, education and health promotion research, specialising in the use of participatory strategies in youth research and education. She has developed a number of Australia’s leading drug education and mental health promotion programs for schools, and a range of youth leadership, violence-reduction and sexuality education programs used in developing countries within the Asia-Pacific region.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Learning Bodies
Book Subtitle: The Body in Youth and Childhood Studies
Editors: Julia Coffey, Shelley Budgeon, Helen Cahill
Series Title: Perspectives on Children and Young People
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0306-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0304-2Published: 11 February 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9129-2Published: 31 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0306-6Published: 03 February 2016
Series ISSN: 2365-2977
Series E-ISSN: 2365-2985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 270
Topics: Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Gender Studies, Early Childhood Education