Global Childhoods beyond the North-South Divide

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 global context, as well as specific aspects of international development and social policy. While the focus of the project is conceptual rather than practical, the holistic understanding of childhoods that it encourages should also enable practitioners to better ensure that they are improving the lives of the children.

About the author

Afua Twum-Danso Imoh
is Lecturer in the Sociology of Childhood at the University of Sheffield, UK

Michael Bourdillon
is Professor Emeritus at the University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

Sylvia Meichsner
is Research Associate at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico

Summary

- Explores academic treatment of children’s lives across the Global North and Global South



- Offers a unique selection of materials related to global childhoods, young people, families, and education.


- Provides avenues for further empirical and theoretical exploration.

Product details

• Assisted by: Afua Twum-Danso Imoh (Editor), Michae Bourdillon (Editor), Sylvia Meichsner (Editor), Michael Bourdillon (Editor), Afua Twum-Danso Imoh (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.11.2018
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science
• EAN: 9783319955421
• ISBN: 978-3-31-995542-1
• Pages: 269
• Illustrations: XIX, 269 p. 2 illus.
• Dimensions (packing): 15.6 x 21.3 x 2.2 cm
• Weight (packing): 516 g
• Series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development; Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
• Subjects: B, Sustainability, Social Change, Political Science and International Studies, Economic development, Gender studies, gender groups, Age groups: children, Women in development, Development Studies, Development and Gender, Development and Social Change, Development and Sustainability, Economic development—Environmental aspects, Development Theory, Development and Children, Youth in development