Childhood in Turkey: Educational, Sociological, and Psychological Perspectives

This volume asks, what is it like to be a child in a country where 25% of the population is under the age of 14? Handling this question through a multidisciplinary lens, the book provides a rich and diverse analysis of different portrayals of childhood in Turkey. From children’s rights to transformation of childhood, from refugee children to host country children living in armed conflict areas, from cultural factors to gene-environment interaction, from parent-focused to child-focused programs, readers will find in-depth and up-to-date information about children living in Turkey from the perspectives of sociology, education, and psychology sciences.

Hilal H. Şen received her Ph.D. degree in developmental psychology from Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. Hilal H. Şen is an assistant professor of psychology at MEF University in Istanbul. She is currently working at the University of Akureyri, Iceland. Her research focuses on moral development and active learning in childhood in peer-peer and parent-child interactions.

Helaine Selin was a Faculty Associate and Science Librarian at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, from which she retired in 2012. She is the editor of the Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (3rd ed. Springer 2016) and eight books in Springer’s Science Across Cultures series, on Astronomy, Mathematics, Medicine, Nature, Childbirth, Parenting, Happiness and Death.