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European childhoods : cultures, politics and childhoods in Europe
- Title
- European childhoods : cultures, politics and childhoods in Europe / edited by Allison James and Adrian L. James.
- Publication
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- x, 250 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- In the context of a growing global awareness of the significance of children's rights and perspectives created by the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child, this edited collection of papers explores the extent to which children's interests are finding expression in different societies in Western Europe. Its aim is to compare the ways in which social and welfare issues around childhood are being framed and realised, both within policies and legislation and through cultural practices. If, as is frequently argued, "the child is a nation's future", such a comparative project is timely, given the drive for a common European political identity. -- from publisher description.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- European childhoods : an overview / Adrian James and Allison James -- Children as new citizens : in the best interests of the child? / Anne Trine Kjørholt -- Children in nature : cultural ideas and social practices in Norway / Randi Dyblie Nilsen -- Children's cultures and new technologies : a gap between generations? Some reflections from the Spanish context / Ferran Casas -- Children at the margins? Changing constructions of childhood in contemporary Ireland / Dympna Devine -- Changing childhood in the UK : reconstructing discourses of 'risk' and 'protection' / Adrian James and Allison James -- Institutional upbringing : a discussion of the politics of childhood in contemporary Denmark / Eva Gulløw -- Education and the cultural politics of childhood in Cyprus / Spyros Spyrou -- Children's culture, cultural education and policy approaches to children's culture : the case of Germany / Heinz Hengst -- Work and care : reconstructing childhood through childcare policy in Germany / Michael-Sebastian Honig -- Childhood in the welfare state / Jens Qvortrup.
- ISBN
- 1403997500
- 9781403997500
- LCCN
- 2007051206
- OCLC
- ocn184925127
- 184925127
- SCSB-1462055
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library