Children Taken Seriously
Title | Children Taken Seriously PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Mason |
Publisher | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2005-01-15 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1846420997 |
In Children Taken Seriously, leading researchers and policy makers consider how children can be recognized as social actors rather than passive consumers or victims. Using children's own views and experiences as a starting point, they explore how children can be involved as partners in the decision-making processes that affect them, in social work, education, health care and broader social policies. Chapters on the theoretical background draw parallels between developments in children's and women's rights, and discuss communication issues and social and sexual constructions of children. Other chapters explore issues of policy and practice in a variety of areas, from Family Group Conferencing and child protection to child labour and notions of active citizenship. Highlighting the important role of schools in empowering children, the authors discuss children's engagement in and participation in their own education and how children's rights theory influences debates over discipline. This accessible and thought-provoking book is a rich source of insight and ideas for social workers, teachers, mental health professionals and anyone working with children.
Taking Play Seriously
Title | Taking Play Seriously PDF eBook |
Author | Ole Fredrik Lillemyr |
Publisher | Information Age Pub Incorporated |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781607521143 |
"In this edition, much of the second Norwegian edition has been retained. However , the manuscript has been updated to include more theory and research from recent years."--Preface.
Taking Children and Young People Seriously
Title | Taking Children and Young People Seriously PDF eBook |
Author | Mariane Hedegaard |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2023-05-31 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1108833489 |
Connects development, learning, and societal conditions with care and motivation for children and young people.
Child's Work
Title | Child's Work PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Wallace |
Publisher | |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Domestic education |
ISBN | 9780913677063 |
This book is based around taking children's choices seriously. It is how children make knowledge and understanding out of what is available around them, and as such it is an important book for parents, teachers, and anyone interested in learning from and about children.
The Oxford Handbook of Children's Rights Law
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Children's Rights Law PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Todres |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 797 |
Release | 2020-02-19 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0190097620 |
Children's rights law is a relatively young but rapidly developing discipline. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, the field's core legal instrument, is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. Yet, like children themselves, children's rights are often relegated to the margins in mainstream legal, political, and other discourses, despite their application to approximately one-third of the world's population and every human being's first stages of life. Now thirty years old, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) signalled a definitive shift in the way that children are viewed and understood--from passive objects subsumed within the family to full human beings with a distinct set of rights. Although the CRC and other children's rights law have spurred positive changes in law, policies, and attitudes toward children in numerous countries, implementation remains a work in progress. We have reached a state in the evolution of children's rights in which we need more critical evaluation and assessment of the CRC and the large body of children's rights law and policy that this treaty has inspired. We have moved from conceptualizing and adopting legislation to focusing on implementation and making the content of children's rights meaningful in the lives of all children. This book provides a critical evaluation and assessment of children's rights law, including the CRC. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners from around the world, it aims to elucidate the content of children's rights law, explore the complexities of implementation, and identify critical challenges and opportunities for children's rights law.
Seriously, Just Go to Sleep
Title | Seriously, Just Go to Sleep PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Mansbach |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2012-04-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1453257802 |
The G-rated, child-friendly version of the hilarious #1 New York Times bestselling classic! Go the F*** to Sleep, the picture book for adults, became a cultural sensation by striking a universal chord for parents (with a bit of potty-mouth language to help them vent their frustration). Now, Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés reunite with Seriously, Just Go to Sleep, inviting the children themselves in on the joke. Of course, kids are well aware of how difficult they can be at bedtime. With Mansbach’s new child-appropriate narrative, kids will recognize their tactics, giggle at their own mischievousness, and empathize with their parents’ struggles—a perspective most children’s books don’t capture. Most importantly, it provides a common ground for children and their parents to talk about one of their most stressful daily rituals. This fresh rendition includes Cortés’s updated illustrations, with a cameo appearance by Samuel L. Jackson, who narrated the audio book version of Go the F*** to Sleep
City of Children
Title | City of Children PDF eBook |
Author | Francesco Tonucci |
Publisher | Vernon Press |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 2020-06-30 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1622739353 |
The city, born to be a place of meeting and exchange, has for several decades taken as a default model the strong citizen, man, adult and worker, thereby transforming it into a hostile space for the weakest: the elderly, the disabled, the poor and the children. The automobile, the toy of choice for the privileged citizen, is also taken to be the principal 'citizen' of the city, thus endangering the health, aesthetics and mobility of the rest of us. This book proposes a new philosophy of city governance that takes children as the default citizens, with the confidence that a city sensitive to the needs of childhood will be healthier for everybody. This work recovers elements of the 1989 Convention of the Rights of the Child that recognize the full citizenship of children to suggest two principle axioms for optimal city design: the participation of children in city governance and the restitution of their autonomy, which allows them to stay with their friends and play freely. Boys and girls, in this way, represent all those excluded from decisions and power. This book is primarily written for politicians and city managers so that they can take on board the ideas within. Yet it is also important for teachers and parents so that they can respect the rights provided in the convention. City of Children should be made available to students on teacher-training courses, and also to the children who are the book’s true protagonists. At present, more than two hundred cities in Spain, Italy, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Brazil and Costa Rica have joined this project. This book is a translation of “La città dei bambini” and was translated as part of the Bridging Language and Scholarship initiative. The English edition by Vernon Press follows previous editions of this important work in Italian and the four languages of the Spanish nation (Galego, Basque, Catalan and Castilian), French and Portuguese to make available for the first time this important work to a broader international audience.