Overview
- Identifies main barriers to education and assesses the effectiveness of direct action interventions
- Fills a much needed gap in the education literature of the school’s role in protection against child labor and child marriage
- Presents insight into the existence and nature of protection mechanisms offered by schools and communities
- Offers direction to future education aims and policies
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- protective milieu at schools
- preventing school dropout and abusive child labor
- role of school in child marriage
- schools' role in child protection against child labor
- WFCL
- barriers to education
- discourse aim of education and development
- understanding of age and work
- contexts of adversity
- logistic responses to child abuse
- curricular responses to child safety and protection
- UNICEF's "child-friendly" schools
- teacher training and use of disciplinary methods
About this book
In 1900 the Swedish social theorist Ellen Key launched the idea of a Century of the Child. Recent media reports, from shooting and racial violence in the US to the latest news from ISIS-dominated areas provide a darker vision: it is certainly not a time for children; it is a time during which children’s wellbeing is being the cause of worry. This book is about schools and protection of children, and proposes ways to ensure the minimum standards of safety in schools. The issue of protection is not only important in specific conflict settings, but also more and more in mainstream schools in the Western context. Therefore the book is not focusing on a specific geographic area, but analyzing various contexts of adversity, including those affected by poverty, high incidence of HIV/AIDS, as well as conflict and post conflict-affected areas. It also illustrates the effects of such contexts:
• non-enrollment of children or early dropout from school;
• various forms of abuse and bullying at home and school;
• increased incidence of child marriage;• abusive child labor, and in some cases, the worst forms of child labor.
The school emerges as an institution that could play a stronger role in protection of children and that also could provide better support in the transition from childhood to work and marriage.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Schools as Protection?
Book Subtitle: Reinventing Education in Contexts of Adversity
Authors: Bjorn H. Nordtveit
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25651-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25650-4Published: 29 April 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79821-9Published: 09 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25651-1Published: 20 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 249
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Early Childhood Education