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Global Childhoods beyond the North-South Divide: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development

Editat de Afua Twum-Danso Imoh, Michael Bourdillon, Sylvia Meichsner
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 noi 2018
This book explores children’s lives across the Global North and Global South in the context of academic discussions of childhoods. The edited volume offers a unique selection of materials suitable for teaching in the areas of children, childhoods, young people, families, and education in a global context, as well as specific aspects of international development and social policy. While the focus of the project is conceptual rather than practical, the holistic understanding of childhoods that it encourages should also enable practitioners to better ensure that they are improving the lives of the children.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319955421
ISBN-10: 331995542X
Pagini: 270
Ilustrații: XIX, 269 p. 2 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2019
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Palgrave Studies on Children and Development

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Introduction: Exploring Children’s Lives Beyond the Binary of the global North and Global South.- Part I Intersections Between the Global and the Local in Children’s Lives in the Context of Their Communities.- 2. Teaching “Global Childhoods”: From a Cultural Mapping of “Them” to a Diagnostic Reading of “Us/US”.- 3. "Child Labour” and Children’s Lives.- 4. “Ours” or “Theirs”: Locating the “Criminal Child” in Relation to Education in the Postcolonial Context of India.- 5. Young People and Brazil’s Statute on the Right-to-the-City.- 6. “Family is Everyone who Comes Through the Doors of Our Home”: West African Concepts of Family Bridging the North-South Divide in the Diaspora.- Part II Exploring Dissonance and Synergy in Children’s Lives Across World Areas.- 7. “Disabled” Versus “Nondisabled”: Another Redundant Binary?.- 8. Children’s Use of Music in Understanding Time: Perspectives from Singapore, Australia, and the US.- 9. Children’s Resilience and Constructions of Childhood: Cross-Cultural Considerations.- 10. Child Protection Across Worlds: Young People's Challenges Within and Outside of Child Protection Programmes in UK and Zanzibar Schools.- 11. Environment and Children’s Everyday Lives in India and England: Exploring Children’s Situated Perspectives on Global-Local Environmental Concerns.- 12. Comparing Children's Care Work Across Majority and Minority Worlds.- 13. Reflections on Binary Thinking. 

Notă biografică

Afua Twum-Danso Imoh is Lecturer in the Sociology of Childhood at the University of Sheffield, UK
Michael Bourdillon is Professor Emeritus at the University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
Sylvia Meichsner is Research Associate at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico

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This book explores children’s lives across the Global North and Global South in the context of academic discussions of childhoods. The edited volume offers a unique selection of materials suitable for teaching in the areas of children, childhoods, young people, families, and education in a global context, as well as specific aspects of international development and social policy. While the focus of the project is conceptual rather than practical, the holistic understanding of childhoods that it encourages should also enable practitioners to better ensure that they are improving the lives of the children.

Caracteristici

Explores academic treatment of children’s lives across the Global North and Global South Offers a unique selection of materials related to global childhoods, young people, families, and education. Provides avenues for further empirical and theoretical exploration.