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Unequal childhoods : young children's lives in poor countries / Helen Penn.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contesting early childhoodPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Description: xviii, 219 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415321018
  • 9780415321013
  • 0415321026
  • 9780415321020
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.23091724 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ792.2 .P46 2005
  • HV890.5 .P46 2005
Contents:
1. Global inequalities -- 2. Interpreting poverty -- 3. Understanding early childhood -- 4. Lending a helping hand -- 5. Kazakhstan -- 6. Swaziland -- 7. India / Pawan K. Gupta -- 8. Childhood and social inequality in Brazil / Fulvia Rosemberg -- 9. The ethics of intervention.
Review: "Early childhood in rich countries is a time when children are protected, and their playfulness and curiosity is encouraged. However, this perception co-exists with toleration of political and economic conditions that grossly undermine or even prematurely end the lives of millions of young children in poor countries." "Four case studies illustrate the diversity and complexity of the responses to the attempts to globalize childhood, and highlight the need to address the inequalities of childhood experience. Unequal Childhoods will be invaluable to anyone on early childhood courses with an international focus or studying childhood in an international context."--BOOK JACKET.
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index.

1. Global inequalities -- 2. Interpreting poverty -- 3. Understanding early childhood -- 4. Lending a helping hand -- 5. Kazakhstan -- 6. Swaziland -- 7. India / Pawan K. Gupta -- 8. Childhood and social inequality in Brazil / Fulvia Rosemberg -- 9. The ethics of intervention.

"Early childhood in rich countries is a time when children are protected, and their playfulness and curiosity is encouraged. However, this perception co-exists with toleration of political and economic conditions that grossly undermine or even prematurely end the lives of millions of young children in poor countries." "Four case studies illustrate the diversity and complexity of the responses to the attempts to globalize childhood, and highlight the need to address the inequalities of childhood experience. Unequal Childhoods will be invaluable to anyone on early childhood courses with an international focus or studying childhood in an international context."--BOOK JACKET.

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