Children: Noble Causes or Worthy Citizens?
Regular price
€192.20
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Karl Eric Knutsson
Advocacy Debate
Author_Karl Eric Knutsson
Category=JBSP1
Category=JKSB1
child rights policy
childhood studies
Children's Rights
Children’s Rights
Chronic
Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Credo
cultural perceptions children
developmental sociology
Education Systems
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
ethical frameworks childhood
Exploitative Child Labour
Follow
Frictions
health
Held
Human Betterment
Ill
Immunization Drives
Keynes
Mother And Child
North
Observer's Urge
Observer’s Urge
Official Development Assistance
Oral Rehydration
political recognition of children
primary
Primary Health Care
Reality Room
social policy analysis
Strong
Suffering Child
UN
Urban Poor
Product details
- ISBN 9781857424201
- Weight: 435g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jan 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Since the International Year of the Child in 1979, advocacy for children has intensified. The Convention on the Rights of the Child has propelled this advocacy decisively into the midst of the political debate over human rights. Attempts to construct and support the theoretical and empirical underpinnings for a fresh approach to children and childhood are also intensifying. Nonetheless, policies targeted at children continue to suffer from pervasive theoretical weaknesses. This is persistently constraining appropriate action. This book argues that for both theoretical and practical reasons children need to be understood in their own right. It asks fundamental questions about the perceptions we have of children and childhood and about the ways these perceptions emerge to influence and shape our assumptions, preferences and choices concerning children. It tries to deepen understanding and interest by clarifying the theoretical, ethical and pragmatic reasons for transforming the political neglect of children into recognition and action. The book is divided into two parts. The first part examines cultural and social variations in perceptions concerning children and the second part draws conclusions from the analysis. It concludes by proposing practical lessons which may be learned from the debate about children.
Karl Eric Knutsson, Stockholm University, Sweden
