Overview
- Presents research conducted with children aged 6-11 years on their well-being
- The first study on child well-being from the perspective of children
- Presents evidence that children are the real experts of their own lives
Part of the book series: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research (CHIR, volume 17)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Susann Fegter is an expert in research on education, childhoods and gender. She has presented qualitative and discourse analytical works, e.g. on urban childhoods, on boys in the educational system and on child well-being. One main focusof her research lies on methodological questions of cultural approaches in educational and childhood studies and on questions of subjectivation. She is one of the principle investigators of the multinational qualitative study “Children´s Understandings of Well-being – Global and Local Contexts” (CUWB) which is an ISCI endorsed project with research partners in 25 countries worldwide.
Klaus Hurrelmann is Professor of Public Health and Education at the Hertie School of Governance. His areas of research include health and education policy. Hurrelmann was the founding dean of the first German School of Public Health at the University of Bielefeld. There, he spent 12 years as Director of the Research Center SFB 227, "Prevention and Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence". Hurrelmann led the German contribution to the international comparative study "Health Behaviour in School Children" for the World Health Organization from 1992 to 2006. He is in the directorial team of several ongoing national surveys covering the development of family, children, youth and young adults. Previously, Hurrelmann was a Professor of Socialisation at the Universities of Essen and Bielefeld. He was educated as a social scientist at the University of Münster and the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his doctorate in the field of Education Systems and Society.
Ulrich Schneekloth is an empirical social researcher with wide experience in methodology and methods of representative surveys. His main focuses are research in generation relations, social change and participation. He has conducted several surveys on family, childhood and youth. Together with Sabine Andresen and Klaus Hurrelmann he has founded the World Vision Children Study. In addition he is one of the responsibles of the German Shell Youth Study.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Well-being, Poverty and Justice from a Child’s Perspective
Book Subtitle: 3rd World Vision Children Study
Editors: Sabine Andresen, Susann Fegter, Klaus Hurrelmann, Ulrich Schneekloth
Series Title: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57574-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57573-5Published: 07 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86198-2Published: 04 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57574-2Published: 21 July 2017
Series ISSN: 1879-5196
Series E-ISSN: 1879-520X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 228
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour
Topics: Child Well-being, Early Childhood Education, Infancy and Early Childhood Development, Quality of Life Research, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights