Overview
- A major new survey in a sparse literature on father and male involvement in young lives
- Focuses on successful programs and strategies for father involvement
- Includes valuable updates on formative theoretical models and research
- Comprehensive purview includes material on marginalized and minority ethnic fathers
- Discusses the support of father involvement through social policy
- Multidisciplinary as well as global analysis
Part of the book series: Educating the Young Child (EDYC, volume 6)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Father Involvement: General Perspectives
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Contexts Within the United States
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Contexts within the United States
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International Contexs
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INTERNATIONAL CONTEXS
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About this book
This vital addition to Springer’s ‘Educating the Young Child’ series addresses gaps in the literature on father involvement in the lives of young children, a topic with a fast-rising profile in today’s world of female breadwinners and single-parent households. While the significant body of theoretical understanding and empirical data accumulated in recent decades has done much to characterize the fluidity of evolving notions of fatherhood, the impact of this understanding on policy and legal frameworks has been uneven at an international level. In a field where groups of fathers were until recently marginalized in research, this book adopts a refreshingly inclusive attitude, aiming to motivate researchers to capture the nuanced practices of fathers in minority groups such as those who are homeless, gay, imprisoned, raising a disabled child, or from ethnically distinct backgrounds, including Mexican- and African-American and indigenous fathers.
The volume includes chapters highlighting the unique challenges and possibilities of father involvement in their children’s early years of development. Contributing authors have integrated theories, research, policies, and programs on father involvement so as to attract readers with diverse interest and expertise, and material from selected countries in Asia, Australia, and Africa, as well as North America, evinces the international scope of their analysis. Their often interdisciplinary analyses draw, too, on historical and cultural legacies, even as they project a vision of the future in which fathers’ involvement in their young children’s lives develops alongside the changing political, economic and educational landscapes around the world.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Father Involvement in Young Children’s Lives
Book Subtitle: A Global Analysis
Editors: Jyotsna Pattnaik
Series Title: Educating the Young Child
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5155-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5154-5Published: 28 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8427-6Published: 29 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5155-2Published: 30 December 2012
Series ISSN: 2543-0610
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0629
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 354
Topics: Early Childhood Education, International and Comparative Education, Educational Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Sociology of Education