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The politics of childhood : international perspectives, contemporary developments / edited by Jim Goddard ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.Description: xvii, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781403935519:
  • 1403935513 (cloth)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.23
LOC classification:
  • .P65 2005
Contents:
Interpreting children's needs: contested assumptions in the provision of welfare / Nigel Thomas -- The politics of modern childhood: American socialisation and the crisis of individualism / Jim Block -- The "shame of America" African-American civil rights and the politics of childhood / Rebecca de Schweinitz
Child labour and children's rights: policy issues in three affluent societies / Wiebina Heesterman -- Entertaining guests or entertaining the guests: children's emotional labour in hotels, pubs and boarding houses / Julie Seymour -- Growing up in poverty while living in an affluent society: personal experiences and coping strategies of Dutch poor children / Tamara van der Hoek
Mobilising family solidarity? rights, responsibilities and secondary schooling in urban Mexico / Maribel Blasco -- "Gypsy children can't learn": Roma in the Hungarian education system / Annabel Tremlett -- The invisible child in education law / Ann Blair
Placing children on the political agenda: New Zealand's agenda for children / Maree Brown and Jaleh McCormack -- The representation of children in the media: aspects of agency and literacy / Máire Messenger Davies and Nick Mosdell -- Family law and the construction of childhood in England and Wales / Sally McNamee, Adrian James and Allison James -- Meeting the challenge? voicing children and young people in mental health research / Vicki Coppock -- Future directions for the study of childhood / Jim Goddard
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 305.23 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 48585

CW008

Proceedings of the third international conference held by the Centre for the Social Study of Childhood at the University of Hull in 2002.

CW120

Includes bibliographical references and index.

[PART 1 Children in theory and history] Introduction: the politics of childhood - an overview / Allison James and Adrian James -- Interpreting children's needs: contested assumptions in the provision of welfare / Nigel Thomas -- The politics of modern childhood: American socialisation and the crisis of individualism / Jim Block -- The "shame of America" African-American civil rights and the politics of childhood / Rebecca de Schweinitz

[PART 2 Children, money and work] Child labour and children's rights: policy issues in three affluent societies / Wiebina Heesterman -- Entertaining guests or entertaining the guests: children's emotional labour in hotels, pubs and boarding houses / Julie Seymour -- Growing up in poverty while living in an affluent society: personal experiences and coping strategies of Dutch poor children / Tamara van der Hoek

[PART 3 Children at school] Mobilising family solidarity? rights, responsibilities and secondary schooling in urban Mexico / Maribel Blasco -- "Gypsy children can't learn": Roma in the Hungarian education system / Annabel Tremlett -- The invisible child in education law / Ann Blair

[PART 4 Children, power and decision-making] Placing children on the political agenda: New Zealand's agenda for children / Maree Brown and Jaleh McCormack -- The representation of children in the media: aspects of agency and literacy / Máire Messenger Davies and Nick Mosdell -- Family law and the construction of childhood in England and Wales / Sally McNamee, Adrian James and Allison James -- Meeting the challenge? voicing children and young people in mental health research / Vicki Coppock -- Future directions for the study of childhood / Jim Goddard

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