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Unequal childhoods : young children's lives in poor countries
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In this article, the Ethics of Intervention is used to understand early childhood early childhood and the importance of early childhood in the development of children, and the role of intervention in early childhood.Abstract:
1. Global inequalities 2. Interpreting Poverty 3. Understanding Early Childhood 4. Lending a Helping Hand 5. Kazakhstan 6. Swaziland 7. India 8. Brazil 9. The Ethics of Interventionread more
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Early Childhood Care and Education
TL;DR: Backdrop Provision of comprehensive health care and education to children in the early stages of development prior to entering primary school is given a special place in the national education policies and programmes.
Changing perspectives on early childhood: theory, research and policy
TL;DR: Early childhood policies and practices are shaped by competing images and discourses of the young child as mentioned in this paper, and four core perspectives that have been most influential are reviewed in this paper: a political and economic perspective, informed by developmental principles, translated into social and educational interventions, and underpinned by economic models of human capital.
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Young Children's Rights and Public Policy: Practices and Possibilities for Citizenship in the Early Years
TL;DR: The authors examines the increasing interest in involving young children in policy-making and its rationale, and presents two case studies from Australia to show what consulting young children can offer children, policy-makers and the wider community.
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Routledge handbook of Southeast Asian development
TL;DR: The Handbook of Southeast Asia as discussed by the authors traces the uneven experiences that have accompanied development in Southeast Asia, highlighting the ongoing neoliberalization of development, issues of social and environmental justice and questions of agency and empowerment.
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Lost and Found: The Sociological Ambivalence Toward Childhood
TL;DR: The authors identify three possible sources of this sociological ambivalence: the fact that much work does not fully differentiate children from childhood, the notion of childhood as a social construct, and the construction of childhood in some of the literature is incommensurate with the social policies designed to protect or empower children.