European Childhoods

FERRAN CASAS Senior Professor of Social Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Girona, SpainDYMPNA DEVINE Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University College Dublin, Ireland EVA GULLØV is Senior Lecturer, Department of Educational Anthropology, Danish University of Education, Copenhagen, DenmarkHEINZ HENGST Professor of Social and Cultural Sciences, is retired from Hochschule Bremen, Department of Sozialwesen, GermanyMICHAEL-SEBASTIAN HONIG Full Professor of Educational Science, University of Trier, GermanyANNE TRINE KJØRHOLT Director and Associate Professor, Norwegian Centre for Child Research, Trondheim, Norway RANDI DYBLIE NILSEN Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NorwayJENS QVORTRUP Magister and PhD in sociology, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkSPYROS SPYROU Director, Center for the Study of Childhood and Adolescence and Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Cyprus College, Cyprus

The United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child resulted in even greater global awareness of the significance of children's rights and perspectives. The contributors to this book explore the extent to which children's interests are finding expression in different societies in Western Europe.

Topical in terms of current debate about the state of childhood

Foreword European Childhoods: An Overview; A.James & A.James Children as New Citizens: In the Best Interests of the Child; A.T.Kjørholt Children In Nature: Cultural Ideas and Social Practices In Norway; R.D.Nilsen Children's Cultures and New Technologies: A Gap Between Generations? Some Reflections on the Spanish Context; F.Casas Children at the Margins? Changing Constructions of Childhood in Contemporary Ireland; D.Devine Changing Childhood in the UK: Reconstructing Discourses of 'Risk' and 'Protection'; A.James & A.James Institutional Upbringing: A Discussion of the Politics of Childhood in Contemporary Denmark; E.Gulløv Education and the Cultural Politics of Childhood in Cyprus; S.Spyrou Children's Culture, Cultural Education and Policy Approaches to Children's Culture: The Case of Germany; H.Hengst Work and Care: Re-Constructing Childhood Through Child-Care Policy in Germany; M-S.Honig Childhood in the Welfare State; J.Qvortrup References Index