The Ecology of Childhood : : How Our Changing World Threatens Children’s Rights / / Barbara Bennett Woodhouse.
2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineHow globalization is undermining sustainable social environments for children This book uses the ecological model of child development together with ethnographic and comparative studies of two small villages, in Italy and the United States, as its fram...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Families, Law, and Society ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Part 1 Comparative Ecologies
- 1 How a Comparative Study of Childhood Became a Story of Global Crisis
- 2 Tools for Studying Childhood
- Part 2 Microsystems and Mesosystems
- 3 A Tale of Two Villages
- 4 The Magic of Mesosystems, Seedbeds of Solidarity
- Part 3 Exosystems and Macrosystems
- 5 Falling Birth Rates and Rural Depopulation
- 6 The Role of Family- Supportive Policies in the Decision to Have Children
- 7 Children of the Great American Recession
- 8 The Great Recession Crosses the Atlantic
- 9 Globalization: The Elephant in the Playroom
- Part 4 Transforming the Ecology of Childhood
- 10 The Role of Children’s Rights
- 11 How the CRC Affects Actual Children’s Lives
- 12 Building Small Worlds in Urban Spaces
- 13 Charting the Way to a World Fit for Children
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author