Informal education, childhood and youth: geographies, histories, practices

Geographies of informal care in Ireland, 2002 2006

Given the increasing role that informal caregivers play in the Irish health, social and economic systems, this short empirical paper outlines and maps the spatial distribution of caregivers from the 2002 and 2006 Censuses to provide some preliminary insights into patterns of caregiving in Ireland. The primary tasks involved mapping the distribution of carers at small area-level in both 2002 and...

Reconstructing childhood health histories.

This article provides evidence about the quality of retrospective childhood health histories given to respondents in the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Even though information on early life health events is critical, there is legitimate skepticism about the ability of older respondents to remember specific health problems that they had during c...

Histories of Childhood

Finnish Media Literacy Education Policies and Best Practices in Early Childhood Education and Care Since 2004

The purpose of the article is to describe Finnish media literacy policies and good media education practices in early childhood education and care. This article will focus on describing two central action lines related to the Children and Media Program, initiated by the Division for Cultural Policy of the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2004. These action lines include the reform of the le...

Childhood and the politics of scale : descaling children ’ s geographies ?

The past decade has witnessed a resurgence of interest in the geographies of children’s lives, and particularly in engaging the voices and activities of young people in geographical research. Much this growing body of scholarship is characterised by a very parochial locus of interest – the neighbourhood, playground, shopping mall or journey to school. In this paper I explore some of the roots o...