The Right to Childhoods
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The Right to Childhoods

Critical Perspectives on Rights, Difference and Knowledge in a Transient World

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Right to Childhoods

Critical Perspectives on Rights, Difference and Knowledge in a Transient World

About this book

In this study, Dimitra Hartas analyses contemporary childhood. She discusses the plurality inherent in childhood and the forces that shape children's experience of growing up in the 21st century. She engages with new lines of argument about diversity, difficulty and difference, and critiques the issues that affect children's quality of life such as market-driven values, poverty and civic engagement. Hartas shows how the right to childhood is being violated in both the developed and the developing world and how our consumerist culture is shaping children's lives in ways that are not always understood, and she advocates the rights to childhoods. She concludes by discussing policy and practice in early childhood education, and examines pedagogies that are responsive to ethics, diversity and difference.

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Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781441176424
eBook ISBN
9781441110008
Edition
1
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Education General

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I: Constructions and Positionality of Childhood: Multiplicity, Difference and Enterprise
  6. Part II: The Ecologies of Childhood in the 21[sup(st)] Century
  7. Part III: The Right to Childhoods
  8. Part IV: Knowledge for Rights and Democracy
  9. Epilogue
  10. Appendix
  11. References
  12. Index