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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cregan, Kate (Author)
Cuthbert, Denise (Author)
Language:English
Published: London : SAGE, 2014.
Subjects:
Child development > Case studies.
Children > Cross-cultural studies > Case studies.
Children > Social conditions > Case studies.
Child rearing > Case studies.
Genre:
Case studies.
Cross-cultural studies
Physical Description:xii, 196 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part One. Key ideas and theoretical approaches in the study of children and childhood. 1. Knowing children: Theory and method in the study of childhood
  • 2. What is a child?: Making meaning of children and childhood
  • 3. Global childhoods: Children as objects of national and global concern
  • 4. The convention on the rights of the child and the construction of the normative global child.
  • Part Two. Case studies in the meaning of children and childhood. 5. The habitus of childhood: Home, school, work
  • 6. Children and disaster: 'Child soldiers' and orphans
  • 7. The child and the nation: Case studies in the persecution and forced removal of childen by the state
  • 8. The value of children
  • 9. Future children: Identity and perfectibility.