| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 208 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-Title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Intro, Section1-2 -- Introduction -- Why This Book? -- Contents of the Book -- Section 1 The 'Problem' of Kid Power -- Chapter 1 Power and Children -- What Is 'Power'? The Three-Dimensional View -- Instruments and Mechanisms of Power -- Generational Power -- Generational power as abnormal -- Generation and gender power -- Generation as a meta-theory -- Agency and Empowerment -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Global Rights and Kid Power -- Children's Rights and Power |
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Reservations -- Political rights -- Children's Rights and Participation -- Participation and Regulation -- Participation and Change -- Inequality and the Distribution of Participatory Rights -- The distribution of children's rights -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Child-Centredness, Schooling and Kid Power -- Child-Centred Pedagogy -- Child-Centred Practices -- Pedagogical Approaches and Global Variation -- Early years' education in Reggio Emilia -- Child-Centredness as a Form of Control -- Child-Centredness and Inequality -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 The Loss of Adult Power? |
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Adulthood, Technology and the Global Market -- The global market and the mediating roles of parents -- State Intervention and the Decline of Parenthood -- Tripartite relations and children's participation -- Power, punishment and parenting -- Loss of Adult Power -- Children's Narratives -- Conclusion -- Section 2 Reconstructing Kid Power -- Chapter 5 Family, Generation and Mediation -- Family Restructuring and Post-divorce Families -- Children mediating separated parents -- Mediating family poverty -- Child Migrants and Mediation -- Mediation and Child-Headed Households |
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Discussion and Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Internet, Social Media and Kid Power -- Children, the Internet and Social Media Use -- Social Connectivity -- Political and Community Networks -- Children's Consumption in the Context of the Internet and Social Media -- Diversity of Children's Online Experiences -- Intergenerational Issues -- Conclusion: Children's Use of the Internet and Social Media through a Power Lens -- Chapter 7 Children's Community Action -- Case 1: Children's Involvement in School Councils -- Who gets to have a say in school councils? |
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Changes to practice? Power as decision-making, non-decision-making and prevention of grievances -- Case 2: Children Striking from School for the Climate -- The power dimensions of climate strikes -- The power of strikes -- changing the actions of others -- Case 3: Working Children's Movements -- Dimensions of power of working children's movements -- Working children's unions and intergenerational relations -- Decision-Making, Agenda-Setting and Dominant Regimes of Truth -- Three-dimensional power -- Childhood diversity and inequality -- The potential of intergenerational alliances |
| Summary |
This book combines theories of power with empirical material on children's lives across the world to propose a novel framework for understanding kid power. It explores the nature of power relations between children and adults and provides a critical analysis of kid power, considering inequalities and inter-generational relations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Children -- Social conditions.
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Children and adults.
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Children and adults
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Children -- Social conditions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wyness, Michael G., author.
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| ISBN |
9781785277719 |
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1785277715 |
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9781785277726 |
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1785277723 |
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