Full Description
Offering a timely and critical examination of the pressures shaping children's lives - across societies, systems and settings - this book challenges readers to rethink the dominant idealisations of childhood, pushing forward new conversations about childhood in the 21st century.
Contents
Introduction - Pallawi Sinha, Sarah Richards and Marianna Stella
1. Exploring the Value of Childness - Kate Bacon and Zoe O'Riordan
2. Children's Autonomous Use of Play and Art in Constructing Their Social and Cultural Worlds - Nicole Jamison
3. Children as Researchers and Change-Makers in Their Communities - Helen Lomax
4. The Complexities and Multidimensional Aspects of Children and Childhood in Foster Care Research - Judite Le
5. Children as Active Agents Shaping Women's Strategies in Terminating Male-to-Female Intimate Partner Violence - Ivana Lessner Listiakova and Hana Smitkova
6. Children and professionals' Perspectives on Child Participation in Public Law Legal Proceedings - Sara Hammond, Sarah Crafter and Johanna Motzkau
7. Agentic Participation in the Digital Landscapes of Childhoods - Kelly-Marie Taylor
8. Children's Reflections on War, Death, and Mourning - Maciej Wróblewski
9. Provincialising Childhood - Pallawi Sinha
