Overview

Explores attitudes towards and experiences of children's rights. This book draws on children's own perspectives on their lives and on adults' attitudes towards them. It discusses such themes as: power relations between adults and children, the child's voice, intercultural perspectives, social justice, social exclusion, gender and disability.

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9781441195401

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'The book is written in an interactive and easy to read style that would be accessible to anyone who works with children and is interested in learning more about children's rights... The book would also be useful reading for policy-makers and practitioners who are interested in taking concrete steps to ensure that the goals outlined in the UNCRC are realized through policy practice.'--,

'The book is written in an interactive and easy to read style that would be accessible to anyone who works with children and is interested in learning more about children's rights... The book would also be useful reading for policy-makers and practitioners who are interested in taking concrete steps to ensure that the goals outlined in the UNCRC are realized through policy practice.'--Sanford Lakoff

'The book is written in an interactive and easy to read style that would be accessible to anyone who works with children and is interested in learning more about children's rights... The book would also be useful reading for policy-makers and practitioners who are interested in taking concrete steps to ensure that the goals outlined in the UNCRC are realized through policy practice.'--Sanford Lakoff '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 '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 '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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Dr Sue Welch is Principle Lecturer, Leeds Metropolitan University and co-Editor of Childhood: Services for Children (Pearson 2007). Dr Phil Jones is Reader in Childhood Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University. He has lectured and published widely, with work translated into Chinese, Greek and Korean, and he is Series Editor for New Childhoods.

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