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This work looks at some of the everyday activities children engage in, to understand the distinctiveness of children's cultural worlds. The diversity of children's experiences is highlighted, focusing on children of different ages and living in different cultural contexts. Topics include: children and friendship; play as an activity associated with childhood; toys and other artefacts produced for children; children and time/space; children as consumers; children and information technology and the media; children's language; the role of literature and storytelling; and adult concerns and interventions.

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a the lay-out, illustrations, set-up and content was very professional and interesting for everyone studying children and childhood today. (International Journal of Adolescent Medicine & Health, No.15, 2003) ...offers a multi-faceted look at cultural experiences during childhood... (Children & Society, Vol 19 (3) June 2005)

a the lay-out, illustrations, set-up and content was very professional and interesting for everyone studying children and childhood today. (International Journal of Adolescent Medicine & Health, No.15, 2003) ...offers a multi-faceted look at cultural experiences during childhood... (Children & Society, Vol 19 (3) June 2005)

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Mary Jane Kehily is a lecturer in Childhood Studies at The Open University. Her background is in cultural studies and education and her research interests are in gender and sexuality, narrative and identity, and popular culture. She has published widely on these themes. Recent publications include Sexuality, Gender and Schooling: Shifting Agendas in Social Learning (Routledge, 2002); 'Sexing the subject: Teachers, pedagogies and sex education', Sex Education, 2002, 3(3); and 'Learning to Laugh', A study of Schoolboy humour in the English secondary school' in What About the Boys? Issues of Masculinities in Schools (edited by Martino and Meyenn, Open University Press 2001, with Nayak). She is also director of a research project exploring the cultural meanings of drugs and drug use in young people's lives. Joan Swann is a senior lecturer in the Centre for Language and Communications at The Open University. She worked initially as a secondary school teacher before joining The Open University. She has contributed to several Open University courses, particularly in the areas of language and education, English language and linguistics. As a sociolinguist, her main research interests are in language and gender, children's language and classroom language, and she has researched and published widely in these areas. Recent publications include Introducing Sociolinguistics (Edinburgh University Press, 2002, with Mesthrie, Deumert and Leap); 'Yes, but is it gender?' in Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis (edited by Litosseliti and Sunderland, Benjamins, 2002); and 'Schooled language: language and gender in educational settings' in The Handbook of Language and Gender (Holmes and Meyerhoff, Blackwell Publishers, 2003).

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