Children in South African Families: Lives and Times

Name: Children in South African Families: Lives and Times
Brand: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Price: 63.89 EUR
Availability: InStock

★★★★★

English

This book presents a comprehensive overview of African childrens lives in times of transition, transformation, and change some twenty-two years after political emancipation in South Africa. With diverse family formations, non-marital childbearing, and diverse parenting situations prevalent in South Africa, the book covers both the conceptual and theoretical questions that explore the context of childrens experiences. It uses examples from a range of primary and secondary data sources to illustrate how resilience in children faced with adversity could be nurtured, demonstrating the links between theory and practice, and critically commenting on questions of epistemology by drawing on research with children within different African social and cultural contexts.While the volume affirms the complexities of explaining child adversity or privilege, it stresses the diversity of South African childrens experiences and the importance of adopting both childrens rights and Afro-centric perspectives to account for the commonality and diversity of childhood and childrens empowerment in diverse family systems. The contributions also provide recommendations on how to respond and intervene in childrens issues, from both practical and policy levels, in a dedicated manner to ensure that children are protected from harm, nurtured to succeed, and assisted during and after traumatic experiences.This volume represents a valuable resource for scholars and students in the fields of humanities, social science, development studies and public health, as well as policy makers, child practitioners, and child rights advocates. See more

€63.89

€70.99

Save 10%

Quantity

Age Group_Uncategorizedautomatic-updateB01=Monde MakiwaneB01=Mzikazi NdunaB01=Nene Ernest KhalemaCategory1=Non-FictionCategory=JFSP1Category=JKSB1Category=JPVHCategory=MBNCOP=United KingdomDelivery_Delivery within 10-20 working daysLanguage_EnglishPA=AvailablePrice_€50 to €100PS=Activesoftlaunch

Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days

Product Details

Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
Publication Date: 12 Sep 2016
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781443897358

About

Professor Monde Makiwane currently works in the Human and Social Development research programme of the Human Sciences Research Council in Pretoria as a Chief Research Specialist. He also holds a position at the North-West University South Africa as an Extraordinary Professor. He received a Masters degree in Social Science in Sociology from the University of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa and a PhD in Demography from the University of the Witwatersrand South Africa. In addition he has held two fellowships: one at Harvard University and another at the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of research interest include intergenerational relations ageing youth teenage sexuality fertility social security and migration. He has authored and co-authored a number of journal articles and book chapters. Professor Mzikazi Nduna PhD is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand South Africa. Mzi has research interests in HIV/AIDS father connections sexual and reproductive health and rights gender and gender-based violence and psychological distress pertaining to women children and sexual minorities. She is an alumnus of the Sexuality Leadership Development the Carnegie and the ICP CHANGE Fellowships and has co-authored 45 peer-reviewed journal articles a book review and three book chapters and reviews manuscripts for international and local journals. Professor Nene Ernest Khalema is an Associate Professor and Academic Leader of Community Development at the School of Built Environment & Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). He is a former Chief Research Specialist (CRS) at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and former assistant professor of social work at the University of Calgary in Canada. Before joining UKZN he taught social science social work community development and public health at numerous institutions in Canada since 2001. He is a co-editor of several books entitled: Millennium Development Goals in Retrospect: Africas Development Beyond 2015 (Springer 2015) and Africa Yesterday Today and Tomorrow: Exploring the Multidimensional Discourses on Development (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2013). These publications unearthed development dynamics in specific African countries critically examined development prescriptions of the North towards Africa examined the continents external relations rethought predominant ideas on development and engaged in critical examination of the concepts and practices that have maintained hegemonic positions in discussions on Africas development.