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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815449203321

Autore

O'Neill Tom

Titolo

Children's rights : multidisciplinary approaches to participation and protection / / edited by Tom O'Neill and Dawn Zinga

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-4426-9256-1

1-4426-8761-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Disciplina

323.3/52

Soggetti

Children's rights

Social participation

Child welfare

Students - Legal status, laws, etc

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

The dilemma of child and youth participation in Nepal's People's War / Tom O'Neill -- Protecting the rights of international 'orphans' : evaluating the alternatives / Lucy Le Mare, Karyn Audet, and Karen Kurytnik -- Becoming-child : ontology, immanence, and the production of child and youth rights / Hans Skott-Myhre and Donato Tarulli -- Children's right to education : contextualizing its expression in developed and developing countries / Dawn Zinga and Sherri Young -- Entitlement beyond the family : global rights commitments and children's health policy in Canada / Candace Johnson -- There's no place like home : the child's right to family / Marjorie Aunos and Maurice Feldman -- Human rights for children and youth with developmental disabilities / Frances Owen [and others] -- Protecting the rights of alleged victims of child abuse in adult-based judicial systems / Kim P. Roberts and Angela Evans -- Child rights in cyber-space : protection, participation, and privacy / Shaheen Shariff and Leanne Johnny -- Too little, too late : the right to comprehensive



sexual health education in childhood and adolescence / Johanna Van Vliet and Rebecca Raby -- Special education rights : services for children with special needs in Ontario schools / Sheila Bennett, Don Dworet, and Manta Zahos -- Bullying prevention and the rights of children : psychological and democratic aspects / Monique Lacharite and Zopito A. Marini -- Rights and responsibility : secondary school conduct codes and the production of passive citizenship / Rebecca Raby.

Sommario/riassunto

Consisting of thirteen essays by prominent scholars, this volume is an in-depth and interdisciplinary exploration of the significance of children's rights, and a tremendous resource for those working with children and youth in institutional and educational settings.