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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464465703321

Autore

Hartas Dimitra <1966->

Titolo

The right to childhoods : critical perspectives on rights, difference and knowledge in a transient world / / Dimitra Hartas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Continuum International Pub., , 2011

©2008

ISBN

1-4411-1000-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Collana

Continuum studies in education The right to childhoods

Disciplina

305.23

Soggetti

Children - Social conditions

Youth - Social conditions

Children's rights

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Constructions and positionality of childhood. multiplicity, difference and enterprise -- The multiplicity and positionality of childhood -- Childhoods of difference and diversity -- Children as a resource : the rise of the entrepreneurial child -- Ecologies of childhood in the 21st century -- Transient childhoods : the politics of change and uncertainty -- Children's physical, social/ critical and virtual spaces -- Children's happiness and wellbeing -- The right to childhoods -- Current frameworks of children's rights -- Young people's voice and participation -- The right to childhoods -- Knowledge for rights and democracy -- Knowledge and morality in an era of radical doubt -- Civic and corporate education -- Communities of practice and learning.

Sommario/riassunto

In this study, Dimitra Hartas analyses contemporary childhood. She discusses the plurality inherent in childhood and the forces that shape children''s experience of growing up in the 21st century. She engages with new lines of argument about diversity, difficulty and difference, and critiques the issues that affect children''s quality of life such as market-driven values, poverty and civic engagement.  Hartas shows how the right to childhood is being violated in both the developed and the developing world and how our consumerist culture is shaping



children''s lives in ways that are not always