Global Childhoods beyond the North-South Divide
Editors: Imoh, Afua Twum-Danso, Bourdillon, Michael, Meichsner, Sylvia (Eds.)
Free Preview- Explores academic treatment of children’s lives across the Global North and Global South
- Offers a unique selection of materials related to global childhoods, young people, families, and education.
- Provides avenues for further empirical and theoretical exploration.
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- About this book
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This book explores children’s lives across the Global North and Global South in the context of academic discussions of childhoods. The edited volume offers a unique selection of materials suitable for teaching in the areas of children, childhoods, young people, families, and education in a global context, as well as specific aspects of international development and social policy. While the focus of the project is conceptual rather than practical, the holistic understanding of childhoods that it encourages should also enable practitioners to better ensure that they are improving the lives of the children.
- About the authors
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Afua Twum-Danso Imoh is Lecturer in the Sociology of Childhood at the University of Sheffield, UK
Michael Bourdillon is Professor Emeritus at the University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
Sylvia Meichsner is Research Associate at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction: Exploring Children’s Lives Beyond the Binary of the Global North and Global South
Pages 1-10
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Teaching “Global Childhoods”: From a Cultural Mapping of “Them” to a Diagnostic Reading of “Us/US”
Pages 13-34
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“Child Labour” and Children’s Lives
Pages 35-55
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“Ours” or “Theirs”: Locating the “Criminal Child” in Relation to Education in the Postcolonial Context of India
Pages 57-79
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Young People and Brazil’s Statute on the Right-to-the-City
Pages 81-98
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Global Childhoods beyond the North-South Divide
- Editors
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- Afua Twum-Danso Imoh
- Michael Bourdillon
- Sylvia Meichsner
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-95543-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-95543-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-95542-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-07055-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 269
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 b/w illustrations
- Topics