Using Film to Understand Childhood and Practice

• Kurt Wicke
• Sue Aitken
• Jo Basford
• Jackie Braithwaite
• Jim Dobson
• Nicky Hirst
• Martin Needham
• Sarah Sharpe

Fra forlagets omtale: Using Film to Understand Childhood and Practice is an innovative and lively text which allows complex and challenging issues within childhood studies to be explored using the medium of filmed drama. By utilising popular culture, this book provides accessible narratives to students and lecturers needing to engage with complex theoretical ideas. In exposing theories to tangible situations often from more than one perspective in films, readers are helped to identify and recognise how theories about children and childhood can be applied.