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NFB Kids

By Brian J. Low
Subjects: History, Ethnography, Cultural Studies, Film & Media, Social Science, Sociology, Canadian History
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Imagine a society that exists solely in cinema — this book explores exactly that.
Using a half-century of films from the archival collection of the National Film Board, NFB Kids: Portrayals of Children ...

Fostering Nation?

By Veronica Strong-Boag
Subjects: Political Science, Social Services, Social Science, Sociology, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage explores the missteps and the promise of a century and more of child protection efforts by Canadians and their governments. It ...

Freedom to Play

Edited by Norah L. Lewis
Subjects: History, Social Science, Sociology, Canadian History, Sports & Recreation
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

“When we were children we made our own fun” is a frequent comment from those who were children in pre-television times. But what games, activities and amusements did children enjoy prior to the mid-1950s? ...

The Dominion of Youth

By Cynthia R. Comacchio
Subjects: Social Science, Sociology, History, Canadian History
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Adolescence, like childhood, is more than a biologically defined life stage: it is also a sociohistorical construction. The meaning and experience of adolescence are reformulated according to societal ...