| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cultural Empowerment and Self Determination. Dilemmas of Rights-Based Approaches to Child Well-Being in an African Cultural Context / A. Bame Nsamenang -- Undefended Children in the Classroom? Looking at Textbooks, Cultural Difference, and Other Aspects of Indigenous Education in Mexico / Jill R. Gnade-Muñoz -- The Nyae Nyae Village Schools Project: Indigenous Community-Based Education in Namibia / Megan Biesele -- Education and Schooling Experiences. Poverty and Minority Children's Education in the USA: Case Study of a Sudanese Refugee Family / Guofang Li -- Boodja Marr Karl: A Whole-Community Approach to Aboriginal Education--The Development of a Cultural Framework for Aboriginal Participation in Education and Schooling / Simon Forrest -- Self-Perceptions of Relations with Parents, Attitudes Toward School, and Delinquency Among African-American, Caribbean American, and Ghanaian Adolescents / Beverly C. Sealey -- Health and Well Being. Child Labor: A Child Development Perspective / DeBrenna LaFa Agbényiga -- Vulnerable Children? The Heterogeneity of Young Children's Experiences in Kenya and Brazil / Jonathan R.H. Tudge, Cesar A. Piccinini, Tania M. Sperb -- Child Labor and Child Well-Being: The Case of Children in Marine Fishing in Ghana / Emmanuel K. Adusei Agbényiga -- A World Tour of Selected Intervention Programs for Children of a Parent with a Psychiatric Illness / Joanne Riebschleger -- Child Security: Orphans and Fosterage. Sudanese Refugee Youth: Resilience Among Undefended Children / Laura Bates, Tom Luster, Deborah J. Johnson, Desiree Baolian Qin -- When All the Children Are Left Behind: An Exploration of Fosterage of Owambo Orphans in Namibia, Africa / Jill Brown -- Malawi's Orphans: The Role of Transnational Humanitarian Organizations / Andrea Freidus, Anne Ferguson -- Children's Rights. Indigenous Children's Rights and Well-Being: Perspectives from Central and Southern Africa / Robert K. Hitchcock -- Traditional Religion, Social Structure, and Children's Rights in Ghana: The Making of a Trokosi Child / Robert Kwame Ame -- Defending and Nurturing Childhood in Media, Public, and Policy Discourses: Lessons from UNICEF's Juanita Communication Initiative in Colombia / Arvind Singhal -- Epilogue / DeBrenna LaFa Agbényiga, Deborah J. Johnson |
| Summary |
They are laborers, soldiers, refugees, and orphans. In areas of the world torn by poverty, disease, and war, millions of children are invisible victims, deprived of home, family, and basic human rights. Their chances for a stable adult life are extremely slim. The powerful interdisciplinary volume Vulnerable Children brings a global child-rights perspective to the lives of Indigenous, refugee, and minority children in and from crisis-prone regions. Focusing on self-determination, education, security, health, and related issues, an international panel of scholars examines the structural and political sources of children's vulnerabilities and their effects on development. The book analyzes intervention programs currently in place and identifies challenges that must be met at both the community and larger policy levels. These chapters also go a long way to explain the often-blurred line between vulnerability and resilience. Key areas of coverage include: Dilemmas of rights-based approaches to child well-being in an African cultural context. Poverty and minority children's education in the United States: The case study of a Sudanese refugee family. The heterogeneity of young children's experiences in Kenya and Brazil. A world tour of interventions for children of a parent with a psychiatric illness. An exploration of fosterage of Owambo orphans in Namibia. UNICEF in Colombia: Defending and nurturing childhood in media, public, and policy discourses. Vulnerable Children is a must-have resource for researchers, graduate students, clinicians and professionals across a range of fields, including child and school psychology, social work, maternal and child health, developmental psychology, anthropology, sociology, social policy, and public health |
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Public health |
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Maternal and infant welfare |
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Social policy |
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Social work |
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Developmental psychology |
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Psychology |
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Child and School Psychology |
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Maternal and Child Health |
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sociaal beleid |
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ontwikkelingspsychologie |
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gezondheid |
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health |
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psychologie |
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sociaal werk |
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volksgezondheid |
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Psychology (General) |
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Psychologie (algemeen) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
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Children -- Social conditions.
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Child psychology.
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Well-being -- Age factors.
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Age factors in disease.
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Children.
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Social history.
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Age Factors
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Psychology, Child
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Child Welfare
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Child
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Social Conditions
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children (people by age group)
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social history.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Child psychology
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Children -- Social conditions
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Well-being -- Age factors
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Johnson, Deborah J. (Deborah Jean), 1958-
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Agbényiga, DeBrenna LaFa, 1971-
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Hitchcock, Robert K
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| LC no. |
2013935218 |
| ISBN |
9781461467809 |
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1461467802 |
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9781489992260 |
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148999226X |
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