Enhancing Children's Rights [electronic resource] : Connecting Research, Policy and Practice /
Smith, A.editor.
This volume explores how children's rights has influenced research with children and how research can in turn shape policies and practices to enhance children's rights. The book examines the impact children's rights and Childhood Studies has had on how children are constructed and regulated internationally.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Foreword by Deborah Morris-Travers; Acknowledgements; Key Note; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Rights, Research and Policy; Section 1: The Body; 2 Reforms to Healthcare Systems and Policies: Influences from Children's Rights; 3 Changing the Law on Physical Punishment in New Zealand; 4 The Child's Right to Play: Laying the Building Blocks for Optimal Health and Well-Being; Section 2: Early Childhood Education; 5 Early Childhood Services in England: Policy, Research and Practice
6 Early Childhood Education in New Zealand: Progress and Challenges in Achieving Children's Rights7 Children's Rights and Early-Years Provision in India; Section 3: Child Protection; 8 Child Protection: Policies for Vulnerable Children in New Zealand; 9 Children in Care: Global Perspectives on the Challenges of Securing Their Well-Being and Rights; 10 Children and Young People Leaving Care; 11 Family and Care Policies for Children in the Former Soviet Union: What Is Changing in Russia and Lithuania?; 12 Child Rights and Well-Being in Latin America: A Role for Conditional Cash Transfers?
Section 4: Participation, Politics and the Law13 Taking Account of Children: How Far Have We Come in England?; 14 Young People as Leaders in (and Sometimes Victims of) Political and Cultural Change; 15 Children's Rights and Well-Being: Tensions within the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014; 16 "Vi ere en nasjon vi med?" "We are a nation, we?": Children's Rights in Norway - Research, Policies and Practices; 17 Children's Views and Participation in Family Dispute Resolution in New Zealand; Conclusion; 18 Conclusion: Challenges for Research on Children's Rights; References
Author IndexSubject Index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
This volume explores how children's rights has influenced research with children and how research can in turn shape policies and practices to enhance children's rights. The book examines the impact children's rights and Childhood Studies has had on how children are constructed and regulated internationally.
Social work.
Social policy.
Child development.
Economic development.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Social groups.
Family.
Social Work.
Children, Youth and Family Policy.
Early Childhood Education.
Development Studies.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.