Theorising Childhood Citizenship, Rights and Participation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Baraldi, Claudio (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Cockburn, Tom (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth
• Subjects: Childhood.; Adolescence.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Social policy.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Children, Youth and Family Policy.

Focusing on children's citizenship, participation and rights, this edited collection draws on the work of a number of leading scholars in the sociology of childhood. The contributors explore a range of themes including: tensions between pragmatism and grand theory; revisiting agency/structure d...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Lived Citizenship, rights and participation in contemporary Europe; Claudio Baraldi and Tom Cockburn
• 2. Children's citizenship in globalised societies; Hanne Warming
• 3. Children's participation: definitions, narratives and disputes; Michael Wyness
• 4. Recognition and capability: a new way to understand how children can achieve their rights?; Nigel Thomas and Daniel Stoecklin
• 5. Theorising Children's Bodies. A critical review of relational understandings in Childhood Studies; Florian Eßer
• 6. Unexpected allies. Expanding the theoretical toolbox of the children's rights sociologist; Michele Poretti
• 7. Beyond the modern "norm" of childhood: children at the margins as a challenge for the Sociology of Childhood; Manuel Jacinto Sarmento, Rita de Cássia Marchi and Gabriela de Pina Trevisan
• 8. Participation as learning for change in everyday spaces: Enhancing meaning and effectiveness using action research; Barry Percy-Smith
• 9. The child, the pupil, the citizen. Outlines and perspectives of a critical theory of citizenship education; Federico Farini
• 10. Heteropolitical pedagogies. citizenship and childhood. Commoning education in contemporary Greece; Yannis Pechtelidis
• 11. The right to be transnational. Narratives and positionings of children with a migration background in Italy; Sara Amadasi and Vittorio Iervese
• 12. Conclusions: Lived Childhoods; Claudio Baraldi and Tom Cockburn.