The ‘Poor Child.’ The cultural politics of education, development and childhood

The ‘Poor Child’- 
Front Cover
The ‘Poor Child’
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Unsettling the global child: Rethinking child subjectivity in education and international development
	Introduction
	Unsettling the universal child
	Development discourses and the universal child
	Reimagining the ‘poor child’ and new insights into global development(s)
	Notes
	References
Part I: Cultural representations of childhood and poverty
Chapter 2: ‘It shouldn’t happen here’: Cultural and relational dynamics structured around the ‘poor child’
	Framing the analysis
	Why this text?
	The context
	Save The Children’s 2012 campaign: ‘It shouldn’t happen here’
	The campaign
	The reception
	To what ends?
	Post-script
	Notes
	References
	Websites cited
Chapter 3: ‘Black kid burden’: Cultural representations of Indigenous childhood and poverty in Australian cinema
	Introduction
	The politics of interpretation and film as pedagogy
	The politics of Indigenous childhoods in Australia
	The Indigenous Australian child of Australian cinema
	Representations of Indigenous childhoods in film
	Concluding thoughts
	Notes
	References
Part II: Contextualising the‘poor child’: Children’s voices as modes of resistance
Chapter 4: Child labour, schooling and the reconstruction of childhood: A case study from Kenya
	Introduction
	The social construction of childhood
	From the socialised child to the labouring child to the schooled child: a case study of a reconstructed childhood in Kenya
	Contemporary childhood in Kiratu
	Working and schooling: a balancing act
	Implications for social policy
	Notes
	References
Chapter 5: Victims of what? Misunderstandings of anti-trafficking child protection policies in Benin
	Introduction
	Western discourses and Beninese conceptualisations of the child
	Western intervention: a restrictive law as response to two scandals
	Are vidomègons trafficking victims?
	Listening to presumed victims’ voices
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 6: The construction of resilience: Voices of poor children in Mexico
	Introduction
	Challenging the concept of childhood
	Researching childhoods in Mexico: an ethnographic approach
	Understanding resilience
	Interactions of resilience: the lived realities of four children
	Conclusions and implications
	Notes
	References
Part III: Questioning the project of schooling and the politics of development
Chapter 7: Policy constructions of childhoods: Impacts of multi-level education and development policy processes in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific
	Investigating multi-level policies through critical discourse analysis
	EFA and MDG representations of education and childhoods
	Policy contexts for EFA in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
Chapter 8: Modernity and multiple childhoods: Interrogating the education of the rural poor in global India
	Introduction
	Urban ideals, global India and the ‘poor child’
	Contemporary education policy agendas for India’s rural poor
	The modern educational project – a case study in Karnataka
	Educating the rural child
	Conclusion: multiple childhoods and the preferred citizen
	Note
	References
Chapter 9: Picturing education, poverty and childhood from the perspectives of yak herder children in Bhutan
	The research context: Bhutan’s education system
	The research
	Mainstream pictures of poverty and education
	Conceptualising education and rural life: contesting hierarchies, complicating binaries
	Revisioning modernity: thinking anew about education, poverty and the future citizen
	Education, poverty and the child subject: Tshering’s views
	Conclusion: rethinking children’s attitudes in relation to education and development
	Notes
	References
Conclusion
Chapter 10: Revisioning ‘development’: Towards a relational understanding of the ‘poor child’
	Towards a relational understanding of the ‘poor child’
	The problem of poverty
	‘Revisioning’ education and international development research, policy and practice
	Notes
	References
Index