Debunking common misconceptions and myths surround teaching and education.

This book develops the reader's knowledge of how and when gender stereotypes form and how they can be perpetuated in various ways through and during a child's education.

This book offers an introduction to the study of childhood and the different contexts within which childhood exists. It explores childhood from within the family, to the global perspective, and the child's own perspective. It enables readers to begin to understand childhood in relation to society and to develop the skills to look at childhood from a critical standpoint.