Children's rights and power charging up for a new century
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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London
Jessica Kingsley
2003
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| Schriftenreihe: | Children in charge series
9 |
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1046 DE-1047 Volltext |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-292) and indexes Children's Rights and Power: Charging Up for a New Century; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I Powerful People; Chapter 1 'As If': Multiple Representations of the Person; Chapter 2 The Fourth 'P': The Issue of Power; Part II Children and the Economy; Chapter 3 Counting; Chapter 4 Spending: 'Cool' Consumers: Purchasers or Purchased?; Part III Enduring and Surviving; Chapter 5 Whatever Makes You Stronger ... ; Chapter 6 Warriors and Workers; Part IV Children in Charge; Chapter 7 Children at Large: Agency, Participation, Politics and Democracy; Chapter 8 Young Citizens in Action Why have children been excluded from discussions of the changing nature of power, and why are they invisible in national and international statistics? Taking a global perspective, Mary John considers how children learn about power, being powerful and the transformation of power relationships. Arguing that children are rarely included in debates on social accountability, freedom and autonomy and are excluded from statistics, she compares the situation of children to that of other powerless minority groups, 'silenced' because of their lack of economic force. While many books on children's rights |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (304 p.) |
| ISBN: | 1417501200 1423709985 184642027X 1853026581 185302659X 9781417501205 9781423709985 9781846420276 9781853026584 9781853026591 |