The Politics of Childhoods Real and Imagined: Practical Application of Critical Realism and Childhood Studies
About this ebook
Each chapter summarises key themes from several academic disciplines and policy areas, ranging from climate change and social justice between generations, to neoliberalism, social reform and imagining utopias. Children’s and adults’ views and experiences are reviewed, and whereas the first volume deals with more personal and local aspects of childhood, this volume widens the scope into debates about global politics, which so seldom mention children. Each chapter demonstrates how children and young people are an integral part of the whole of society and are often especially affected by policies and events.
This book is written for everyone who is researching, studying or teaching about childhood, or who cares for and works with children and young people, as well as those interested in critical realist approaches.
About the author
Priscilla Alderson is Professor Emerita of Childhood Studies at the Social Science Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education, London. She teaches on an international MA in the Sociology of Childhood and Children's Rights and her work on children's competence, wisdom and rights has been widely published. She also convenes the critical realism reading group founded by Roy Bhaskar at IOE, which meets on alternate Mondays for PhD students. Visiting academics and online contacts are very welcome.
