Children and the Good Life

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Children and the Good Life: Theoretical Challenges

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-12

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   2. Introduction

      • Sabine Andresen, Isabell Diehm, Uwe Sander, Holger Ziegler

      Pages 1-6

   3. Modern Children and Their Well-Being: Dismantling an Ideal

      • Tanja Betz

      Pages 13-28

   4. Children, the Feminist Ethic of Care and Childhood Studies: Is This the Way to the Good Life?

      • Tom Cockburn

      Pages 29-39

   5. Childhood Welfare and the Rights of Children

      • Lourdes Gaitán Muñoz

      Pages 41-51

   6. Children and Their Needs

      • Sabine Andresen, Stefanie Albus

      Pages 53-68

3. The Capability Approach and Research on Children

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-73

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   2. The Capability Approach and Research on Children: Capability Approach and Children’s Issues

      • Mario Biggeri, Jérôme Ballet, Flavio Comim

      Pages 75-89

   3. Subjective Well-Being and Capabilities: Views on the Well-Being of Young Persons

      • Holger Ziegler

      Pages 91-101

   4. Language Education—For the “Good Life”?

      • Isabell Diehm, Veronika Magyar-Haas

      Pages 103-114

4. Children’s Perspectives: Methodological Critiques and Empirical Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-118

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   2. Biographical Research in Childhood Studies: Exploring Children’s Voices from a Pedagogical Perspective

      • Gonzalo Jover, Bianca Thoilliez

      Pages 119-129

   3. Researching Identities, Difference, Subjectivities and Social Relations in Childhood Within Multi-ethnic Infant and Primary School Settings

      • Cecile Wright

      Pages 131-139

   4. Childhood Studies in Turkey

      • Akile Gürsoy

      Pages 141-157

5. Structural Conditions and Children in Different National Contexts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-162

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   2. Child Poverty—Social and Economic Policy for Children

      • Antje Richter-Kornweitz

      Pages 163-175

   3. Well-Being of Children in Turkey

      • Didem Gürses

      Pages 177-187

   4. Roma Children and Social Exclusion in Lithuania: Sociological Approach to Human Development

      • Tadas Leončikas, Vida Beresneviciute

      Pages 189-201

6. Back Matter

   Pages 203-205

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In April 2009, an inspiring international conference was held at Bielefeld on the topic "Children and the Good Life: New Challenges for Research on Children." The focus was on how we can define and measure a "good life" for children growing up in the modern world. This tied in with discussions on how convincing universalistic theories are, what research on children can contribute, and how children themselves can be integrated into the research process and debates on the "good life." Discourses and the production of knowledge on the "good life" or "well-being" require a guiding idea or a theoretical frame. This frame can come from the feminist ethic of care or from the Human and Children's Rights Convention, from the idea of welfare, or from the Capability Approach.

• Capability Research
• Childhood
• Children
• Children's Rights
• Education
• Ethic
• Good Life
• Rights of Children
• Social Work
• Well-Being

• Fak. Erziehungswissenschaft, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

  Sabine Andresen, Isabell Diehm, Uwe Sander, Holger Ziegler

Andresen: Theory and History of Education, Childhood and Children Studies, Poverty, Family Research, Capability Research, Children’s Rights and Needs Diehm: Education and Migration, Children and Childhood, Early Childhood Education, Education and Gender Sander: Research on Youth Culture and Growing up, Media Research, Qualitative Social Research Ziegler: Capability Approach, Education and Welfare, Social Work, Children and Adolescence

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