Description
Rethinking Children's Rights explores attitudes towards and experiences of children’s rights. Phil Jones and Sue Welch draw on a wide range of thought, research and practice from different fields and countries to debate, challenge and re-appraise long held beliefs, attitudes and ways of working and living with children. Children’s own perspectives on their lives and on adults’ attitudes towards them are drawn on throughout the book.
Recent developments in the definition of rights are considered from a variety of perspectives and arenas of children's lives and the future impact of these changes on children's lives, and for those who feature in children's lives, are examined. The themes discussed include power relations between adults and children, the child's voice, intercultural perspectives, social justice, social exclusion, empowerment, gender and disability.
Examples of research, reflections on research, activities, key points and guidance on further reading make this a really accessible text.
Rethinking Children’s Rights is essential for those studying childhood at undergraduate and graduate level, and of great interest to those working with children in any field.
Table of Contents
Introduction to New Childhoods series
Part 1 - Debates, Dilemmas and Challenges: The Background to Children’s Rights
1. Introduction to Rethinking Children’s Rights
2. Children’s Rights: Definitions and Developments
Part 2 - An Interdisciplinary Review of Recent Research and Scholarship
3. Children’s Rights: Current Tensions, Debates and Research
Part 3 - Implications for Children’s Lives
4. Rights and the ‘Child’s Voice’
5. Rights and Decision Making
6. A Rights Perspective on Family Life
7. Working with Children
References
Index
Author(s)
Sue Welch, Sue Welch was, until recently, a Principal Lecturer in Childhood Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.
Phil Jones, Phil Jones is Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies and Inclusion, University of Leeds, UK.
Reviews
'Welch and Jones have produced a much-needed book that highlights for practitioners the cultural, legal and political challenges – as well as opportunities – for promoting children's rights, by taking an open-eyed look at the necessity of understanding these rights within local context and culture. This book provides a roadmap of investigative questions that researchers and practitioners alike can use in navigating the complex and compelling domain of children's rights.'
Felisa Tibbitts, Director, Human Rights Education Associates (HREA), USA
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‘Ideal for those studying childhood at undergraduate and graduate level ... [Rethinking Children's Rights] explores attitudes towards, and experiences of, children's rights, highlighting the cultural, legal and political changes for practitioners ... Recommended reading.’
Early Years Educator
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'The authors do an excellent job of moving beyond explaining children’s rights in a narrow legalistic sense to describing what a children’s right’s perspective can offer.’Children and Young People Now, 27th July
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