Growing up in Europe

Nach kritischer Analyse der Kinder- und Jugendforschung in Europa lenkt das Buch die Aufmerksamkeit des Lesers auf vier Hauptfelder:
Kindheit und Jugend im interkulturellen Vergleich;
Kindheit und Jugend im Lichte des sozialen Wandels;Soziale Verhältnisse und soziale Welten;
Vorschläge für Forschung, Politik und Praxis

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Dr. Peter Büchner ist Professor für Erziehungswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Soziologie der Erziehung und des Bildungswesens an der Philipps-Universität Marburg. Heinz-Hermann Krüger, Jg. 1947, Dr. phil., ist Professor für Allgemeine Erziehungswissenschaft an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors' Introduction -- I. Charting Horizons -- Childhood in Europe: a New Field of Social Research -- European Youth Research: Tour de Force or Turmbau zu Babel? -- II. Childhood, Youth and Intercultural Comparison -- The Value Orientations of Young Europeans -- Growing Up in Three European Regions -- Young People and Employment in the European Community: Convergence or Divergence? -- Growing Up in Twelve Cities: the Families in which Pupils Live -- III. Childhood, Youth and Social Change -- The Cultural Modernisation of Childhood -- Growing Up in Southern Italy: Between Tradition and Modernity -- Modern Childhood in the Nordic Countries: 'Dual Socialisation' and its Implications -- Childhood, Family and New Ways of Life: the Case of Sweden -- Changing Family Transitions: Young People and New Ways of Life in France -- From School to Work in a Transitional Society: Changing Patterns in Russia -- Gender Segregation in the Estonian Labour Market: Stability, not Change -- Growing Up and Social Change in Slovenia -- IV. Social Circumstances and Cultural Worlds -- Difference and Differentiation: Young Londoners' Accounts of 'Race' and Nation -- Political-moral Attitudes amongst Young People in Post-Communist Hungary -- Growing Up on the EU Periphery: Portugal -- Gendered Youth Transitions in Northern Greece: Between Tradition and Modernity through Education -- Contradictions of Modem Childhood Within and Outside School -- Youth Culture in Transition to Post-Modernity: Finland -- Childhood and Poverty: from the Children's Point of View -- V. Prospects for Research, Policy and Practice -- Rumanian Childhood and Youth Research and Policy in Transition -- Young People and Social Transformation: Associative Life in Post-Communist and Independent Slovakia -- The Politics of Childhood, Children's Rights and the UN Convention -- Forum -- Challenges for Childhood and Youth Policy in European Context -- Perspectives for Child and Youth Oriented Policy in the FRG -- On the Young Generation's Situation in the Transformation of Czech Society -- Problems and Challenges in Developing European Youth Policies -- Youth Policy in the European Union -- References -- Contributors