This edited volume sheds light on the unique challenges, trends, and intersecting issues related to identifying intellectual potential of children of color around the world. The editors bring together expert scholars from around the world who have a vested interest in gifted children of color.

Contributions come from authors spread around the globe, illuminating how the efficacy and ideologies of schooling variably unfold in differing national and historical contexts. Written by sociologists, anthropologists, economists, and cultural critics, this journal offers lively and accessible...

The extent of social protection provided to families with children varies according to each country's unique economic, social, and demographic conditions. The most important factors for assessing social protection were studied and identified by means of the multivariate statistical analysis...

At the height of the Russian industrial revolution, legions of children toiled in factories, accounting for fifteen percent of the workforce. Yet, by the end of the nineteenth century, their numbers had been greatly reduced, thanks to legislation that sought to protect the welfare of children...

COVER -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Television Advertising to Children -- Children and Advertising -- Children's Exposure to Advertising -- Issues and Politics -- Impact of Advertising -- Influence of Advertising -- Affect of Commercials on Kids' Behaviour -- Affect of Commercials on...

Children play a key role when it comes to their parents' buying decisions. It is obvious that this is an important fact for brands and their products. For strong brand-consumer-relationships it is very interesting to start building this relationship as early as possible and ethically acceptable....

Differential ratings by multiple informants are an important issue in survey design. Although much research has focused on differential reports of child behaviour, discrepancies between parent and teacher reports of children’s school readiness are less explored.