In this study, Dimitra Hartas analyses contemporary childhood. She discusses the plurality inherent in childhood and the forces that shape children's experience of growing up in the 21st century. She engages with new lines of argument about diversity, difficulty and difference, and critiques the issues that affect children's quality of life such as market-driven values, poverty and civic engagement. Hartas shows how the right to childhood is being violated in both the developed and the developing world and how our consumerist culture is shaping children's lives in ways that are not always understood, and she advocates the rights to childhoods. She concludes by discussing policy and practice in early childhood education, and examines pedagogies that are responsive to ethics, diversity and difference.
- ISBN10 144117642X
- ISBN13 9781441176424
- Publish Date 1 March 2011 (first published 1 January 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Edition NIPPOD
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 232
- Language English