Children's rights : multidisciplinary approaches to participation and protection

Children's rights : multidisciplinary approaches to participation and protection / edited by Tom O'Neill and Dawn Zinga.

Consisting of thirteen essays by prominent scholars, this volume is an in-depth and interdisciplinary exploration of the significance of children's rights, and a tremendous resource for those working with children and youth in institutional and educational settings.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: O'Neill, Tom, 1957- (Editor), Zinga, Dawn (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Convention on the Rights of the Child > (1989 November 20)
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Children's rights.
Social participation.
Child welfare.
Students > Legal status, laws, etc.
Children > Legal status, laws, etc.
Children (International law)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Children's Studies.
Child welfare
Children's rights
Social participation
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Table of Contents:
  • The dilemma of child and youth participation in Nepal's People's War / Tom O'Neill
  • Protecting the rights of international 'orphans' : evaluating the alternatives / Lucy Le Mare, Karyn Audet, and Karen Kurytnik
  • Becoming-child : ontology, immanence, and the production of child and youth rights / Hans Skott-Myhre and Donato Tarulli
  • Children's right to education : contextualizing its expression in developed and developing countries / Dawn Zinga and Sherri Young
  • Entitlement beyond the family : global rights commitments and children's health policy in Canada / Candace Johnson
  • There's no place like home : the child's right to family / Marjorie Aunos and Maurice Feldman
  • Human rights for children and youth with developmental disabilities / Frances Owen [and others]
  • Protecting the rights of alleged victims of child abuse in adult-based judicial systems / Kim P. Roberts and Angela Evans
  • Child rights in cyber-space : protection, participation, and privacy / Shaheen Shariff and Leanne Johnny
  • Too little, too late : the right to comprehensive sexual health education in childhood and adolescence / Johanna Van Vliet and Rebecca Raby
  • Special education rights : services for children with special needs in Ontario schools / Sheila Bennett, Don Dworet, and Manta Zahos
  • Bullying prevention and the rights of children : psychological and democratic aspects / Monique Lacharite and Zopito A. Marini
  • Rights and responsibility : secondary school conduct codes and the production of passive citizenship / Rebecca Raby.

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