Children, childhood, and the future : cross-cultural perspectives / edited by Andrea Kleeberg-Niepage [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kleeberg-Niepage, Andrea, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child development.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

Although most of the world's children live in the Global South, much of the corpus of scientific knowledge which forms the basis of the current notion of "good childhood" worldwide is drawn from research on Western, middle-class children. Even cross-cultural research often applies the Western model of childhood as the standard to which others must correspond. This volume serves to bridge this gap by both bringing up significant features of the development and socialisation of children in African countries and presenting cross-cultural procedures which help to discuss and develop differentiated and joint ideas about childhood, instead of implementing one-sided standards which are disconnected from most children's lives.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Editorial

I. Reflections on African childhoods in the 21st century

Childhood, children, and the future: an African perspective

African childhoods and the pitfalls of postcolonial education and childhood politics

II. Children and young people's images of the future

Introduction to the study

The socio-cultural context of young people's images of the future

The young photographers' perspective

The significance of school in adolescent perceptions of the future

III. The history, future, and development of children and childhood in African contexts

Children's perspective of their history and the future

Language as a baseline for the development of the Ghanaian child

Ba'Aka children at the crossroads of traditional indigenous and modern education-reflections from field research in Central African Republic

Children, childhood, and the future in undergraduate students' creative writing at the University of Education, Winneba

The dehumanization of children by war in Ahmadou Kourouma's Allah n´est pas obligé and Quand on refuse on dit non

Contributors.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-4516-4

OCLC:

1183030125