Childhood and Children’s Rights between Research and Activism

Childhood and Children’s Rights between Research and Activism
Author: Rebecca Budde
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2020-01-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 365829180X

Subjective human rights of children are reasonably fathomed cooperatively by practice, activism and research. Approaches in interdisciplinary learning and teaching in childhood and children’s rights are demonstrated as possibilities for social change through acquiring competencies to think and act children’s rights. This book is dedicated to Manfred Liebel and focuses on his life’s work. He has, throughout his life and work, combined social scientific childhood theories and children’s rights discourses with practical, topical examples of protagonism and agency of children and young people in different national and international contexts.

Know Your Rights and Claim Them

Know Your Rights and Claim Them
Author: Amnesty International
Publisher: Zest Books ™
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2021-09-17
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1728449685

A timely look at children's rights, the young activists who fought for them, and how readers can do the same by Amnesty International, Angelina Jolie, and Geraldine Van Bueren

The Kids Are in Charge

The Kids Are in Charge
Author: Jessica K. Taft
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1479898643

Details the possibilities and challenges of intergenerational activism and social movements Since 1976, the Peruvian movement of working children has fought to redefine age-based roles in society, including defending children’s right to work. In The Kids Are in Charge, Jessica K. Taft gives us an inside look at this groundbreaking, intergenerational social movement, showing that kids can—and should be—respected as equal partners in economic, social, and political life. Through participant observation, Taft explores how the movement has redefined relationships between kids and adults; how they put these ideas into practice within their organizations; and how they advocate for them in larger society. Ultimately, she encourages us to question the widely accepted beliefs that children should not work or participate in politics. The Kids Are in Charge is a provocative invitation to re-imagine childhood, power, and politics.

Childhood, Youth and Activism

Childhood, Youth and Activism
Author: Katie Wright
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2023-12-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1801174687

Considering the meanings of activism by and for children and young people in the twenty-first century, this edited collection is a valuable resource for scholars, educators and practitioners interested in the intersections of childhood and youth studies, activism and movements for social change.

Non-Inclusive Education in Central and Eastern Europe

Non-Inclusive Education in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2022-11-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1350325279

This book presents research into inclusive education in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), written by scholars based in CEE. Inclusive education has become a framework for understanding and embracing diversity but most of the research in this area has been carried out in intercultural or culturally diverse settings within a relatively inclusive and open framework of democratic/liberal and multicultural Western societies. Unlike many Western societies, the realities of CEE countries are often much less diverse and connected with different fragile historical and political processes, which puts tackling sensitive topics in a different context. The editors and contributors address the dominant Western ways of looking at inclusive and global education in CEE. They argue that Western leveraged pedagogy has been imposed on CEE and outline the context-specific problems of teaching global education in CEE. Collectively, the chapters offer critical responses to the issues of exclusion and exclusionary practices of 'silenced' minorities in CEE. Written by academics based in Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary Poland, Romania and Russia, the book cover topics including Roma genocide in Poland, teaching about Islam and teaching about LGBTQ+ issues. The book includes a preface written by Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, USA.

A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation

A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation
Author: Barry Percy-Smith
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2023-04-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000871428

This new edition of A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation brings together work from research and practice to reflect on some of the key developments in the field since the first edition published in 2010. Subtitled ‘Conversations for Transformational Change’, the collection focuses on both ongoing and new discourses that enable us to advance thinking and practice to better understand what it means for participation to be transformational. Featuring all new content, it explores the developments that have been achieved in theory and practice in the last decade as well as the challenges and, indeed, the limitations of dominant participation approaches with children and young people in achieving genuine societal transformation. A key feature of the Handbook is the inclusion of young people as co-authors in many of the chapters. Foregrounding aspects of participation as experienced by diverse groups of children and young people, the book especially illuminates the experiences and perspectives of participation relating to groups of children who face particular challenges, such as displaced children and children living with disabilities and young people from indigenous groups in a range of contexts. The broad spectrum of debates that the text covers will be invaluable in challenging and transforming thinking and practice for a wide range of scholars, practitioners, activists and young people themselves. It will additionally be suitable for use on a wide range of courses including childhood and youth studies, sociology, law, political studies, community development, development studies, children’s rights, citizenship studies, education and social work.

Handbook on Youth Activism

Handbook on Youth Activism
Author: Jerusha Conner
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2024-02-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1803923229

This dynamic Handbook offers state-of-the-art analysis of the new generation of youth activists who are demanding change. Bringing together eminent scholars, rising academic stars and youth activists, this Handbook provides a unique and essential insight into the power of youth activism today.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies
Author: Sarada Balagopalan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2023-11-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1350263869

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies brings together an international group of childhood studies scholars who work with a range of critical theories. It speaks to both scholars and students by addressing questions such as how childhoods are diversely constructed and how children's experiences can be better understood. The volume draws together a diversity of theoretical perspectives from the social sciences and humanities such as critical race studies, disability studies, posthumanism, feminism, politics, decolonialism, queer theory and postcolonialism to generate a much-needed conversation about how to move childhood studies forward as a grounded field of research. The volume is subdivided into three sections - subjectivities, relationalities, and structures - each of which addresses different but interrelated approaches to childhood studies theorization. This handbook will be an essential text not just for childhood studies researchers, but for all those interested in theorizing what childhood is, what work it does and who children are.

The Politics of Children’s Rights and Representation

The Politics of Children’s Rights and Representation
Author: Bengt Sandin
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2023-03-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3031044800

This open access edited volume investigates children and youth's deep entanglement in today's major global, national, and local transformations and processes: wherein they are not mere spectators and objects of transformations but instead actively shape them through various social, economic, and political representations. International contributions illuminate the problems that arise when children's rights and participation become a site of contestation and power over who represents whom, what, when, and where. The authors do not provide simple solutions, instead offering an understanding of the fundamental nature of these problems as founded in the application of rights and the nature of representation in modern society. Together, the authors emphasize that child representation must take into account the local and spatial context of how representations of children are discussed, as well as possible discrepancies between local, regional, national, and global processes.

Participatory Research on Child Maltreatment with Children and Adult Survivors

Participatory Research on Child Maltreatment with Children and Adult Survivors
Author: Maria Roth
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2023-10-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1804555266

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Enriching ongoing debates about participatory research in the field of child maltreatment, this book highlights the advantages that participation as a human right can bring to the community of researchers and helping professionals.