ISBN:
9781841693019
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (618 p)
Series Statement:
Essays in Developmental Psychology
Parallel Title:
Print version Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about Nations and National Groups
DDC:
155.4
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Provides a state-of-the-art account of how people's subjective sense of national identity develops through childhood and adolescence
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; About the author; Preface; 1. On children, nations and national groups; Some initial conceptual distinctions; Theoretical perspectives on the nature of nations; The concept of national enculturation; The structure and organization of this book; Summary; 2. Children's knowledge, beliefs and feelings about countries construed as geographical territories; The Piagetian perspective on children's understanding of, and feelings about, countries; Children's knowledge, beliefs and feelings about their own country
Description / Table of Contents:
Children's knowledge, beliefs and feelings about foreign countriesSummary; 3. Children's knowledge, beliefs and feelings about the state construed as a political entity; Children's understanding of the state; Variability in children's understanding of, and attitudes to, government; The role of the school in fostering children's understanding of the state; Summary; 4. Children's knowledge, beliefs and feelings about nations and states construed as historical and cultural communities; Children's pride in their own country; The role of the school in the national enculturation of children
Description / Table of Contents:
Children's knowledge and utilization of national and state emblemsSummary; 5. Children's knowledge, beliefs and feelings about the people who belong to different national and state groups; Early studies into children's representations of, and attitudes to, the people who live in different countries; More recent studies into children's representations of, and attitudes to, the people who live in different countries; The CHOONGE and NERID projects; The sources of children's knowledge and beliefs about the people who live in other countries
Description / Table of Contents:
Children's beliefs about the factors that determine people's national and state group membershipsSummary; 6. The development of children's subjective identifications with their own nation and state; Previous studies into children's national and state self-categorizations; The findings from the CHOONGE and NERID projects; The Strength of Identification Scale (SoIS); Summary; 7. Theoretical accounts of how children's knowledge, beliefs and feelings about nations and states develop; The key findings requiring explanation; Existing theoretical accounts of children's development
Description / Table of Contents:
Towards a new explanatory framework: Societal-social-cognitive-motivational theory (SSCMT)Coda; Summary; References; Author index; Subject index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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