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New release – Growing Up In Poverty: Findings from Young Lives

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9781137404022Edited by Michael Bourdillon and Jo Boyden
Palgrave MacMillan, 2014

This new book brings together the latest findings from Young Lives on how poverty affects children’s development and how children and their families respond to poverty in their daily decisions and daily lives. The book shows how, amid general economic growth, many poor children are being left behind despite, the promises of the Millennium Development Goals. While the universalisaton of education now means that most children attend school, at least for a while, children from disadvantaged backgrounds often experience poor-quality education and learn least in school, creating inequality of opportunity.

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Publications

New issue – Children, Youth and Environments – Now online

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A NEW issue of the Children, Youth & Environments Journal is now available.
Vol. 24, no. 1 articles include:

“Use of GPS Tracking to Interactively Explore Disabled Children’s Mobility and Accessibility Patterns”
Sean T. Doherty, Patricia McKeever, Henna Aslam, Lindsay Stephens and Nicole Yantzi 

“’No Messing Allowed’: The Enactment of Childhood in Urban Public Space from the Perspective of the Child”
Jackie Bourke

“Lack of Child-Environment Congruence in Cherbourg, Australia: Obstacles to Well-Being in an Indigenous Community”
Angela Kreutz

“The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on the U.S. Foster-Care System”
Mary Ann Davis and Lee M. Miller

“Why Children and Youth Should Have the Right to Vote: An Argument for Proxy-Claim Suffrage”
John Wall

And more…

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7721/chilyoutenvi.24.issue-1

Publications

Actualisation of Children’s Participation Rights: Part 2

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Now online:
SPECIAL ISSUE

Actualisation of Children’s Participation Rights: Part 2

Global Studies of Childhood
Volume 4 Issue 2 

(Part 1 appeared as Volume 3 Number 2, 2013)
http://www.wwwords.co.uk/gsch/content/pdfs/4/issue4_2.asp
Guest Editors: LOUISE PHILLIPS & VICKI COPPOCK

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Louise Phillips & Vicki Coppock. Editorial. Actualisation of Children’s Participation Rights: Part 2, pages 59‑63

Jenna K. Gillett-Swan. Investigating Tween Children’s Capacity to Conceptualise the Complex Issue of Wellbeing, pages 64‑76

Anna Housley Juster & Morgan Leichter-Saxby. Citizens at Play: children’s participation through community-based opportunities for child-directed play, pages 77‑88

Dominique Golay & Dominique Malatesta. From Formal Rights to ‘Living Rights’: potentialities and limits of children’s councils in terms of children’s recognition as social actors, pages 89‑100

Eva Ärlemalm-Hagsér. Participation as ‘Taking Part In’: education for sustainability in Swedish preschools, pages 101‑114

Vicki Coppock. ‘Can you Spot a Terrorist in Your Classroom?’ Problematising the Recruitment of Schools to the ‘War on Terror’ in the United Kingdom, pages 115‑125

Michelle Salazar Pérez. Complicating ‘Victim’ Narratives: childhood agency within violent circumstances, pages 126‑134