Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about Nations and National Groups

Martyn Barrett is Professor of Psychology at the University of Surrey. He has worked extensively on the development of language and on children's drawings. More recently he has been working on national and ethnic enculturation in childhood and adolescence, the development of prejudice and stereotyping in children and adolescents, and acculturation processes in ethnic minority individuals.

• Preface. On Children, Nations and National Groups. Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about Countries Construed as Geographical Territories. Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about the State Construed as an Organised Political Community. Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about Nations and States Construed as Historical and Cultural Communities. Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about the People who Belong to Different National and State Groups. The Development of Children's Subjective Identification with their own Nation and State. Theoretical Accounts of How Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about Nations and National Groups Develop. References. Index.

'This is a very impressive monograph bearing every prospect of becoming a landmark in its field. It combines an exceptionally scholarly review of the historical and current literature on children and national identity with an account of the findings of a unique and ambitious series of multi-context, international studies. The results are fascinating and are interpreted meticulously. This is a terrific book, which I thoroughly enjoyed and know that I'll be dipping back into repeatedly.' - Kevin Durkin, Department of Psychology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK'The field has all too little ambitious cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary research like this. One really gets a sense here of the diversity and complexity of children's national identifications and inter-nation attitudes. It will certainly serve as the point of departure for many investigations in the future, and researchers and students will find much to their benefit in these pages.' - Rupert Brown, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Sussex, UK