TY - BOOK AU - Cregan,Kate AU - Cuthbert,Denise TI - Global childhoods: issues and debates SN - 1446208990 AV - HQ 767 CRE 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Los Angeles PB - SAGE KW - Child development KW - Children KW - fast KW - Kind KW - gnd KW - Sozialwissenschaften KW - Barn KW - sao KW - Barndomen KW - Globalisering N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -