Globalization and Children Exploring Potentials for Enhancing Opportunities in the Lives of Children and Youth

Name: Globalization and Children Exploring Potentials for Enhancing Opportunities in the Lives of Children and Youth
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ISBN: 9780306473685

ISBN-10: 0306473682

ISBN-13: 9780306473685

Edition: 2002

Authors: Natalie Hevener Kaufman, Irene Rizzini

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The primary aim of Globalization and Children is to present an interdisciplinary analysis of a diverse set of global changes and their effects on the everyday lives of children. Contributors offer guidelines which will enable researchers, policy makers, and other child advocates to increase their understanding of how global change is affecting children and which interventions would be useful in understanding and developing policies that would advance the well-being of children. The book explores and explains how children have been excluded from our conceptualization of the world and our research about globalization. The contributors represent a variety of perspectives from different…

Book details

List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Springer
Publication date: 11/30/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.222
Language: English

Natalie Hevener Kaufman is on the faculty of the University of South Carolina at Columbia. She is a legal scholar & has run panels on women & detective fiction for the Popular Culture Association.




The Global Perspective



The Impact of Global Economic, Political, and Social Transformations on the Lives of Children: A Framework for Analysis




Globalization in Cross-Cultural Perspective




The Status of Children in International Law




Democratization and Children's Lives




Global Trends in Children's Lives



Children and Family Life




Civic Participation by Children and Youth




The Effects of Political and Economic Transformations on Children: The Environment




Children and the Media




Developmental-Ecological Considerations




Applying the Lens of Global Change to the Actual Lives of Children



The Transition to "Democracy" in Latin America: Challenges and Implications




Promises Kept, Promises Broken: Recent Political and Economic Trends Affecting Children and Youth in Brazil




The Effects of Structural Adjustment Programs on the Lives of Children in Jamaica




Conclusions


Conclusions



Index