TY  - BOOK
AU  - Higgins,Nancy
AU  - Freeman,Claire
TI  - Childhoods: growing up in Aotearoa New Zealand 
SN  - 9781877578496
U1  - 305.230993 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Dunedin
PB  - University of Otago Press
KW  - Children
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-316) and index; Part I; The context --; Introduction: children in Aotearoa New Zealand - an overview; Claire Freeman and Nancy Higgins --; A theoretical framework for childhood; Anne B. Smith --; Children and vulnerability; Nicola Atwood --; The changing environmental worlds of Aotearoa New Zealand children; Claire Freeman --; Ethics in research with children; Jude MacArthur and Margaret McKenzie --; Part II; Experiencing diverse childhoods --; Recollecting childhood at school in the early twentieth century; Helen May --; Managed childhoods: a social history of urban children's play; Christina R. Ergler, Robin Kearns and Karen Witten --; Growing up Māori and disabled in Aotearoa New Zealand; Hazel Philips and Nancy Higgins --; Multicultural childhoods in a globalised world; Karen Guo --; Children and young people's participation in family law decision-making; Nicola Taylor and Megan Gollop --; The needs of adopted and fostered children; Anita Gibbs --; Being young and working; Ruth Gasson and James Calder --; Technology occupies us: children, media and Aotearoa New Zealand society; Martha Bell and Vitoria Farmer --; Part III; Children's and young people's voices  --; Children's participation and voice in early childhood education; Lyn Foote, Fiona Ellis and Ruth Gasson --; Children of prisoners; Julie Lawrence --; Children's understanding of success; Judith Sligo and Karen Nairn --; Disrupting heteronormativity: a high school queer-straight alliance?; Kathleen Quinlivan --; Stories from the margins: Rangatahi Māori experiences of transition to work; Moana Mitchell and Hazel Phillips --; Conclusion: where are we going?; Nancy Higgins and Claire Freeman
N2  - Children are citizens with autonomy and rights identified by international agencies and United Nations conventions, but these rights are not readily enforceable. Some of the worst levels of child poverty and poor health in the OECD, as well as exceptionally high child suicide rates, exist in Aotearoa New Zealand today. More than a quarter of children are experiencing a childhood of hardship and deprivation in a context of high levels of inequality. Maori children face particular challenges. In a country that characterises itself as 'a good place to bring up children', this is of major concern. The essays in this book are by leading researchers from several disciplines and focus on all of our children and young people, exploring such topics as the environment (economic, social and natural), social justice, children's voices and rights, the identity issues they experience and the impact of rapid societal change. What children themselves have to say is insightful and often deeply moving
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