Macmillan: Children and Media Outside the Home: Playing and Learning in After-School Care Karen Orr Vered: Books

Books
- Awards Coming Soon New at Macmillan Top Sellers Awards New at Macmillan Top Sellers Awards New at Macmillan Top Sellers Books for First Year Reading Course Favorites Featured
  
  Arts and Photography Biography and Memoirs Business and Investing Comics and Graphic Novels Cooking, Food and Wine Crafts Entertainment Health, Mind & Body
  
  History Home and Garden Literature and Fiction Mystery and Thrillers Nonfiction Outdoors Parenting and Families Poetry
  
  Reference Religion and Spirituality Romance Science Science Fiction and Fantasy Sports Travel
  Children's Books Academic Books
  
  All Categories
  
  Adaptations - Books from the Page to the Movie Screen Back to School Books for Junior High and Up Character Education Books for Children Preschool through Grade 3 Gifts for the Holidays Holt BYR Holiday Picks Pluto Press
  All Collections
Authors
- Tours & Events All Authors
Publishers
- Farrar, Straus, and Giroux FSG Hardcovers FSG Paperbacks Hill & Wang Faber & Faber First Second Henry Holt & Co. Henry Holt Hardcovers Henry Holt Paperbacks Metropolitan Books Times Books Macmillan Audio Behind the Wheel Nature Publishing Group Palgrave Macmillan
  
  Picador Quick and Dirty Tips Scientific American St. Martin's Press Minotaur Books Thomas Dunne Books Tor/Forge Tor Books Forge Books Orb Books Tor/Seven Seas
  Bedford, Freeman and Worth Bedford/St. Martin’s W.H. Freeman
  
  Worth Publishers BFW High School i>clicker Hayden-McNeil Palgrave Macmillan Trade Books For Courses
  FSG Books for Young Readers Feiwel & Friends Holt Books for Young Readers Kingfisher Roaring Brook Priddy Books Starscape/Tor Teen Square Fish Young Listeners
Services
- About Macmillan Publishers Booksellers Academic Library Catalogs

See larger image

Children and Media Outside the Home

Playing and Learning in After-School Care

Palgrave Macmillan, Published: August 2008, ISBN: 978-0-230-53729-3, ISBN-10: 0-230-53729-4,Trim: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 256 pages

Hardcover

$75.00

Buy

other sellers

Exam Copies Desk Copies

Table of Contents
Biography

Share this book with friends through your favorite social networking site.

Shelve:

add this book's widget
to your site or blog

Featured Titles

Top Sellers
New Releases
Coming Soon

Other Books You Might Like

Families in Converging Europe

A Comparison of Forms, Structures and Ideals

Eriikka Oinonen Palgrave Macmillan

Issues in African Education

Sociological Perspectives

Edited by Ali A. Abdi and Ailie Cleghorn Palgrave Macmillan

Shakespeare and Youth Culture

Jennifer Hulbert, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., and Robert L. York Palgrave Macmillan

Image and Representation

Key Concepts in Media Studies

Nick Lacey Palgrave Macmillan

Culture and the Unconscious

Edited by Caroline Bainbridge, Susannah Radstone, Michael Rustin and Candida Yates Palgrave Macmillan

The Emergent Global Information Policy Regime

Edited by Sandra Braman Palgrave Macmillan

Psychopedagogy

Freud, Lacan, and the Psychoanalytic Theory of Education

K. Daniel Cho Palgrave Macmillan

Working and Caring For a Child with Chronic Illness

Disconnected and Doing it All

Margaret H. Vickers Palgrave Macmillan

Karen Orr Vered demonstrates how children’s media play contributes to their acquisition of media literacy. Theorizing after-school care as intermediary space, a large-scale ethnographic study informs this theory-rich and practical discussion of children’s media use beyond home and classroom.

About the Author(s)

Karen Orr Vered

KAREN ORR VERED is Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies and Digital Media Studies at Flinders University, Australia.

Preface
Media Use Beyond Home and Classroom
Childhood and Childcare in Australia
Intermediary Space
Making Movies in After-School Care
The Place of Media in Children's Leisure
Television, Video Games and Movies in Out of School Hours Care
Conclusion
References
Index

You May Also Be Interested In

Trade Paperback : 16.95 Buy

The Confrontation

Winning the War against Future Jihad

Walid Phares Palgrave Macmillan

As the global Jihadist movement grows more complex, the escalating threat to international security demands a clear vision for winning the battle against...

Trade Paperback : 14.95 Buy

The Bigamist

BFI Film Classics

Amelie Hastie British Film Institute

Amelie Hastie’s study of The Bigamist (1953) directed by and starring Ida Lupino, shows how the film combines elements of noir and melodrama to tell the story...

Hardcover : 24.95 Buy

BrandDigital

Simple Ways Top Brands Succeed in the Digital World

Allen P. Adamson Palgrave Macmillan

In his best-selling book, BrandSimple: How the Best Brands Keep it Simple and Succeed, Allen P. Adamson showed in a straightforward manner how powerful brands...

Related Lists

Featured Titles

Other Books You Might Like

About the Author(s)

Table of Contents

You May Also Be Interested In