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Global childhoods : issues and debates / Kate Cregan and Denise Cuthbert.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles: SAGE, 2014.Description: xii, 196 pages : 24 cmISBN:
  • 1446208990
  • 9781446208991
  • 1446209008
  • 9781446209004
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ 767  CRE 2014
Contents:
Knowing children: theory and method in the study of childhood -- What is a child?: Making meaning of children and childhood -- Global childhoods: children as objects of national and global concern -- The convention on the rights of the child and the construction of the normative global child -- The habitus of childhood: home, school, work -- Children and disaster: 'child soldiers' and orphans -- The child and the nation: case studies in the persecution and forced removal of children by the state -- The value of children -- Future children: identity and perfectibility.
Summary: A critical exploration of the constructions of childhood across the social sciences. It questions common global Northern conceptions of childhood and children by providing a wider lens through which to challenge inherent Eurocentrism.
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Books in General collection Books in General collection Mzuzu University Library and Learning Resources Centre HQ 767 CRE 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 015097 Available MzULM-015097

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-185) and index.

Knowing children: theory and method in the study of childhood -- What is a child?: Making meaning of children and childhood -- Global childhoods: children as objects of national and global concern -- The convention on the rights of the child and the construction of the normative global child -- The habitus of childhood: home, school, work -- Children and disaster: 'child soldiers' and orphans -- The child and the nation: case studies in the persecution and forced removal of children by the state -- The value of children -- Future children: identity and perfectibility.

A critical exploration of the constructions of childhood across the social sciences. It questions common global Northern conceptions of childhood and children by providing a wider lens through which to challenge inherent Eurocentrism.

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