Global Childhoods beyond the North-South Divide

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Twum-Danso Imoh, Afua (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bourdillon, Michael (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Meichsner, Sylvia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
• Subjects: Economic development.; Youth in development.; Social change.; Women in development.; Economic development-Environmental aspects.; Development and Children.; Development and Social Change.; Development and Gender.; Development and Sustainability.; Development Theory.

This book explores children's lives across the Global North and Global South in the context of academic discussions of childhoods. The edited volume offers a unique selection of materials suitable for teaching in the areas of children, childhoods, young people, families, and education in a glob...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Exploring Children's Lives Beyond the Binary of the global North and Global South
• Part I Intersections Between the Global and the Local in Children's Lives in the Context of Their Communities
• 2. Teaching "Global Childhoods": From a Cultural Mapping of "Them" to a Diagnostic Reading of "Us/US"
• 3. "Child Labour" and Children's Lives
• 4. "Ours" or "Theirs": Locating the "Criminal Child" in Relation to Education in the Postcolonial Context of India
• 5. Young People and Brazil's Statute on the Right-to-the-City
• 6. "Family is Everyone who Comes Through the Doors of Our Home": West African Concepts of Family Bridging the North-South Divide in the Diaspora
• Part II Exploring Dissonance and Synergy in Children's Lives Across World Areas
• 7. "Disabled" Versus "Nondisabled": Another Redundant Binary?
• 8. Children's Use of Music in Understanding Time: Perspectives from Singapore, Australia, and the US
• 9. Children's Resilience and Constructions of Childhood: Cross-Cultural Considerations
• 10. Child Protection Across Worlds: Young People's Challenges Within and Outside of Child Protection Programmes in UK and Zanzibar Schools
• 11. Environment and Children's Everyday Lives in India and England: Exploring Children's Situated Perspectives on Global-Local Environmental Concerns
• 12. Comparing Children's Care Work Across Majority and Minority Worlds
• 13. Reflections on Binary Thinking. .