When Danilyn Rutherford and her husband Craig noticed that their six-month-old daughter Millie wasn't making eye contact, they took her to their pediatrician. And an optometrist. Then a neurologist. Later, to a team of physical and occupational therapists. None of the doctors could give Millie a diagnosis, but it was clear that her brain was not ......
Language As Survival for Indigenous Youth in Diaspora
Despite increasing attention on unaccompanied Central American youth migration to the United States, little empirical research has examined the crucial role of language in the incorporation process, particularly for Indigenous youth. Drawing on the perspectives of Maya (primarily K'iche')-speaking Guatemalan youth, Everyday Futures explores their ......
Language As Survival for Indigenous Youth in Diaspora
Despite increasing attention on unaccompanied Central American youth migration to the United States, little empirical research has examined the crucial role of language in the incorporation process, particularly for Indigenous youth. Drawing on the perspectives of Maya (primarily K'iche')-speaking Guatemalan youth, Everyday Futures explores their ......
This book presents an expanded view of infant and toddler development to equip educators with the knowledge, dispositions, and skills to create high-quality settings and interactions so that every child can have the best start in life. Readers are encouraged to consider the perspective of the child. What does this classroom, this teacher, and this ......
Children and Middle-Class Moralities in Transnational Senegal
An ethnography of Senegalese households in Paris and Dakar that analyzes ways families negotiate transnational kinship Selective Solidarity examines how global inequalities change the ways transnational families negotiate "economic moralities," or expectations about material obligations. Analyzing everyday exchanges in middle-class Senegalese ......
Children and Middle-Class Moralities in Transnational Senegal
An ethnography of Senegalese households in Paris and Dakar that analyzes ways families negotiate transnational kinship Selective Solidarity examines how global inequalities change the ways transnational families negotiate "economic moralities," or expectations about material obligations. Analyzing everyday exchanges in middle-class Senegalese ......
Storytelling and Narrative Literacy for Young People
On the urgent need to promote critical reading skills amidst rising authoritarianism Children's author Philip Pullman famously said that "There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book." While the recent rise of fascist ideology in the United States might seem a ......
Storytelling and Narrative Literacy for Young People
On the urgent need to promote critical reading skills amidst rising authoritarianism Children's author Philip Pullman famously said that "There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book." While the recent rise of fascist ideology in the United States might seem a ......
Philosophy, Poetics, and the Queer Temporalities of Early Life
The Small Worlds of Childhood argues that prose representations of bourgeois childhood contain surprising opportunities to reflect on the temporality of experience. In their narratives of children at home in their everyday worlds, Adalbert Stifter, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Walter Benjamin are not only able to shed a unique light on key issues in ......
