基本説明
Critiques the issues that affect children's quality of life such as market-driven values, poverty and civic disengagement.
Full Description
This book offers an engaging study that analyses contemporary childhood by examining new lines of argument about diversity, disability and difference. The author critiques the key issues that affect both adults' and children's quality of life, including market-driven values, poverty and civic disengagement.In this fascinating study, Dimitra Hartas analyses contemporary childhood. She discusses the plurality inherent in childhood and the cultural, ideological, social and biological forces that shape children's experience of growing up in the 21st century. She engages with new lines of argument about diversity, disability and difference, and critiques the big issues that affect both adults' and children's quality of life such as market-driven values, poverty and civic disengagement.Hartas uncovers evidence of how the right to childhood is being violated in both the developed and developing world and how our consumerist culture is shaping children's lives in ways that are not always understood, and advocates the right to childhoods.
She concludes by discussing the implications of her findings for both policy and practice in early childhood education, and examines pedagogies that are responsive to ethics, diversity and difference.
Contents
Introduction; Section I: Constructions and Positionality of Childhood: Multiplicity, Difference and Enterprise; Chapter 1: The Multiplicity and Positionality of Childhood; Chapter 2: Childhoods of Difference and Diversity; Chapter 3: Children as a Resource: The Rise of the Entrepreneurial Child; Section II: Ecologies of Childhood in the 21st Century; Chapter 4: Transient Childhoods: The Politics of Change and Uncertainty; Chapter 5: Children's Physical, Social/ Critical and Virtual Spaces; Chapter 6: Children's Happiness and Wellbeing; Section III: The Right to Childhoods; Chapter 7: Current Frameworks of Children's Rights; Chapter 8: Young People's Voice and Participation; Chapter 9: The Right to Childhoods; Section IV: Knowledge for Rights and Democracy; Chapter 10: Knowledge and Morality in an Era of Radical Doubt; Chapter 11: Civic and Corporate Education; Chapter 12: Communities of Practice and Learning; Epilogue; References; Appendix.
