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Zusatztext Reviewed in Children & Society, 2010 Informationen zum Autor Dimitra Hartas is Associate Professor in the Institute of Education at the University of Warwick, UK. Her research and teaching interests focus on disability issues, children's language development and children's rights. Vorwort Analysing contemporary childhood by examining new lines of argument about diversity, disability and difference. Zusammenfassung A study that analyses contemporary childhood by examining various lines of argument about diversity, disability and difference. It critiques the key issues that affect both adults' and children's quality of life, including market-driven values, poverty and civic disengagement. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction \ Part I. Constructions and Positionality of Childhood. Multiplicity, Difference and Enterprise \ 1. The Multiplicity and Positionality of Childhood \ 2. Childhoods of Difference and Diversity \ 3. Children as a Resource. The Rise of the Entrepreneurial Child \ Part II. Ecologies of Childhood in the 21st Century \ 4. Transient Childhoods. The Politics of Change and Uncertainty \ 5. Children's Physical, Social/ Critical and Virtual Spaces \ 6. Children's Happiness and Wellbeing \ Part III. The Right to Childhoods \ 7. Current Frameworks of Children's Rights \ 8. Young People's Voice and Participation \ 9. The Right to Childhoods \ Part IV. Knowledge for Rights and Democracy \ 10. Knowledge and Morality in an Era of Radical Doubt \ 11. Civic and Corporate Education \ 12. Communities of Practice and Learning \ Epilogue \ References \ Appendix \ Index
