Children and Childhood: Practices and Perspectives

Children and Childhood: Practices and Perspectives
Table of Contents
Introduction Children and Childhood: Practices and Perspectives
Part 1 The Child: Past and Present
	Concepts of Childhood: A Discussion of the Development, through History
	Autonomy, Gender and Intellectual Development in the Eighteenth Century: The Pedagogical Writings of Madame d’Épinay and Madame
	Prudence or Madness? The History of Leicester’s Nursery Classes, 1927-1967
	Nationality, Modern Art and the Child in Late-Nineteenth Century Painting
Part 2 Problematising Childhood
	Prejudice against Children: A Psychodynamic Exploration of the Abandoned Child Archetype and Childism
	Becoming Human and Remaining a Child: Re-Thinking the Child/Adult Dichotomy
	Respecting the Child/Introspecting Childhood: A Macro/Micro Interrogation of Childhood through the Ideas of Bachelard and Korcza
Part 3 The Child in the Classroom
	When the Student is Ready, a Teacher is being Born
	Breaking Boundaries: Enhancing Student Intellectual Curiosity and Creative Expression in the Learning Process
	The Early Years Professional: Holding a Mirror up to Policy Makers
	Feeling, Learning, Growing: Children’s Feelings about Their Teachers
Part 4 Crime-Punishment and the Child
	War Children Claiming Reparations: Challenges for the International Criminal Court
	Pitted against Each Other: Cases of Sexual Offence within the Juvenile Justice System in India
	Children in the Criminal Justice System in Lithuania: Problems and Solutions
Part 5 Global Perspectives of the Child
	Patterns of Socio-Economic Change and Child Development in Africa
	Childhood in Working Class: Representations in Indian Street Theatre through a Study of Jan Natya Manch’s Plays Aurat and Woh Bol Uthi
	Concepts of Poverty and How They Influence Research, Policy and Intervention with Poor Children and Their Families
	Children’s Room as a Construction of a Child’s World in Three Generations: Case Study and Analysis in Latvia
Part 6 Emotive Tracings of Childhood
	Complexity Theory, Early Childhood Development and Social Justice: Creating a Space for Children’s Voices
	Perceptions of Joy and Sadness in Childhood
Part 7 Children’s Rights
	Understanding Capacity and Competence in Children’s Rights
	Best Interests of the Child: Exploring Social Science and Jurisprudential Perspectives