Jacqueline Barnes 
Down Our Way [PDF ebook] 
The Relevance of Neighbourhoods for Parenting and Child Development

This book will describe in detail what it is like to be a parent in
four different communities in England. The research data that are
the basis for this description are interpreted in relation to a
number of key factors, include: family social class, ethnic group,
length of time on the neighbourhood and the presence of extended
family locally.

The book will be of interest to anyone wanting to know more
about how to improve the lives of parents and children. Special
focus is placed on those families who face disadvantage, either in
relation to personal vulnerabilities or in relation to living in
neighbourhoods lacking in resources and facilities.

Tabla de materias

List of pictures, figures and tables.

Acknowledgements.

1. Introduction.

2. The Families and Neighbourhoods Study.

3. An introduction to some of the families.

4. Is this where I want to belong?

5. What can we do? Where can we go?

6. Local friends – a unique role?

7. Discipline and control.

8. Children out and about.

9. Is it better to belong to the neighbourhood?

10. Conclusions and implications for the future.

References.

Appendix 1. The survey.

Appendix 2. The qualitative study.

Subject Index.

Author Index.

Sobre el autor

Jacqueline Barnes is Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck,
University of London, UK, based at the Institute for the Study of
Children, Families and Social Issues. Professor Barnes is one of
the directors of the national evaluation of the UK
government’s Sure Start local programmes initiative.

After qualifying at the University of Wisconsin to be an
educational psychologist she returned to the UK and was awarded her
Ph D in Psychology from London University in 1983.

In the 1980s she developed the Early Years Behaviour
Checklist with Naomi Richman, a widely used measure of the
behavioural problems of young children in group settings. She
also worked at Harvard in the USA, returning afterwards to London
University. Her current research interests are: evaluation of
early intervention programmes related to children’s health
and development and parenting; community characteristics and the
environment as they relate to family functioning and children; and
the use of child care in the early years, particularly factors
associated with mothers of returning to work after having a new
baby.