Gutter to garden: Historical discourses of risk in interventions in working class children's street play

Children and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 421-434

  Read, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children's culture; Early years; Health well being; Intervention; Play

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053534907     PISSN: 09510605     EISSN: 10990860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1099-0860.2010.00293.x     Document Type: Article

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