The right to childhoods : critical perspectives on rights, difference and knowledge in a transient world / Dimitra Hartas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hartas, Dimitra, 1966-

Series:

Continuum studies in education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Social conditions.

Children.

Youth--Social conditions.

Youth.

Children's rights.

Physical Description:

xxii, 205 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, [2008]

Summary:

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, disability and difference, and critiques the issues that affect children's quality of life such as market-driven values, poverty and civic disengagement.

Hartas shows how the right to childhood is being violated in both the developed and developing world and how our consumerist culture is shaping children's lives in ways that are not always understood, and she advocates the right to childhoods. She concludes by discussing policy and practice in early childhood education, and examines pedagogies that are responsive to ethics, diversity and difference.

Contents:

Part I Constructions and Positionality of Childhood: Multiplicity, Difference and Enterprise

Chapter 1 The Multiplicity and Positionality of Childhood 3

Chapter 2 Childhoods of Difference and Diversity 16

Chapter 3 Children as a Resource: The Rise of the Entrepreneurial Child 26

Part II The Ecologies of Childhood in the 21st Century

Chapter 4 Transient Childhoods: The Politics of Change and Uncertainty 41

Chapter 5 Children's Physical, Social/Critical and Virtual Spaces 56

Chapter 6 Children's Happiness and Well-being 69

Part III The Right to Childhoods

Chapter 7 Current Frameworks of Children's Rights 85

Chapter 8 Young People's Voice and Participation 94

Chapter 9 The Right to Childhoods 115

Part IV Knowledge for Rights and Democracy

Chapter 10 Knowledge and Morality in an Era of Radical Doubt 131

Chapter 11 Civic and Corporate Education 141

Chapter 12 Communities of Practice and Learning 158.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-201) and index.

ISBN:

9780826495686

0826495680

OCLC:

226038356