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African childhoods : education, development, peacebuilding, and the youngest continent
- Title
- African childhoods : education, development, peacebuilding, and the youngest continent / edited by Marisa O. Ensor.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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- Additional Authors
- Ensor, Marisa O.
- Description
- x, 262 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : African childhoods : education, development, and peacebuilding, and the youngest continent / Marisa O. Ensor -- The political economy of child survival in Africa : agency, labor and subsistence -- Are the barrels empty? : are the children any safer? : child domestic labor and servitude in Ghana / C. Nana Derby -- Matches but no fire : street children and the state in Dares Salaam, Tanzania / Claire M. Wagner, Emmanuely D. Lyimo,& Steven Lwendo -- Youth agency and survival strategies in Sierra Leone's post-war informal economy / John Idriss Lahai -- Turkana children's contributions to subsistence and household ecology in Kenya / Tammy Y. Watkins -- The social context of African children : kinship, hardship, and community -- Children who take care of other children in the suburbs of Maputo, Mozambique / Elena Colonna -- Seen but not heard : African orphanhood as lived experience / Kristen E. Cheney -- Militarization, generational conflict, and the Eritrean refugee crisis / Tricia M. Redeker Hepner -- The human capital of African children : youth voices and schooling in the youngest continent -- Representing youth : school dramas and youth authority in Ghana / Cati Coe -- Conceptualizing the child : an analysis of early childhood care and education policy in Tanzania / Bethany C. Wilinski -- Striving for knowledge and dignity : young Quranic students in Kano, Nigeria / Hannah Hoechner -- African children as political actors : child-inclusive views on peacebuilding and social change -- Dinka youth and the culture of formal schooling in post-conflict South Sudan / Andrew I. Epstein -- Educating postconflict societies : lessons from Rwanda and Liberia / Francis E. Godwyll & Siphokazi Magadla -- Our voice : public health and youths' communication for social change in Senegal / Laurel J. Felt & Alexandre Rideau -- Painting a picture of expressive arts therapy for war-affected youth in Northern Uganda / Julia R. Hanebrink & Alanya J. Smith -- Conclusions -- The next generation of African children / Marisa O. Ensor -- About the contributors -- Index.
- Call Number
- Sc E 13-460
- ISBN
- 9781137024695 (alk. paper)
- 1137024690 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012011145
- 40021397666
- OCLC
- 783144374
- Title
- African childhoods : education, development, peacebuilding, and the youngest continent / edited by Marisa O. Ensor.
- Imprint
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Ensor, Marisa O.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40021397666
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 13-460