The Politics of Childhood, Children's Rights and the UN Convention

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Editors' Introduction 1
4. I. Charting Horizons
5. Childhood in Europe: a New Field of Social Research 7
6. European Youth Research: Tour de Force or Turmbau zu Babel? 21
7. II. Childhood, Youth and Intercultural Comparison
8. The Value Orientations of Young Europeans 35
9. Growing Up in Three European Regions 43
10. Young People and Employment in the European Community: Convergence or Divergence? 61
11. Growing Up in Twelve Cities: the Families in which Pupils Live 73
12. III. Childhood, Youth and Social Change
13. The Cultural Modernisation of Childhood 85
14. Growing Up in Southern Italy: Between Tradition and Modernity 95
15. Modern Childhood in the Nordic Countries: 'Dual Socialisation' and its Implications 105
16. Childhood, Family and New Ways of Life: the Case of Sweden 121
17. Changing Family Transitions: Young People and New Ways of Life in France 133
18. From School to Work in a Transitional Society: Changing Patterns in Russia 145
19. Gender Segregation in the Estonian Labour Market: Stability, not Change 153
20. Growing Up and Social Change in Slovenia 161
21. IV. Social Circumstances and Cultural Worlds
22. Difference and Differentiation: Young Londoners' Accounts of 'Race' and Nation 173
23. Political-moral Attitudes amongst Young People in Post-Communist Hungary 189
24. Growing Up on the EU Periphery: Portugal 195
25. Gendered Youth Transitions in Northern Greece: Between Tradition and Modernity through Education 209
26. Contradictions of Modem Childhood Within and Outside School 221
27. Youth Culture in Transition to Post-Modernity: Finland 229
28. Childhood and Poverty: from the Children's Point of View 237
29. V. Prospects for Research, Policy and Practice
30. Rumanian Childhood and Youth Research and Policy in Transition 251
31. Young People and Social Transformation: Associative Life in Post-Communist and Independent Slovakia 259
32. The Politics of Childhood, Children's Rights and the UN Convention 269
33. Forum
34. Challenges for Childhood and Youth Policy in European Context 277
35. Perspectives for Child and Youth Oriented Policy in the FRG 280
36. On the Young Generation's Situation in the Transformation of Czech Society 281
37. Problems and Challenges in Developing European Youth Policies 283
38. Youth Policy in the European Union 286
39. References 289
40. Contributors 311