Children and the Good Life

by Andresen, Sabine; Diehm, Isabell; Sander, Uwe; Ziegler, Holger

• ISBN13: 9789048192182
• ISBN10: 9048192188
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-29
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

In April 2009, an inspiring international conference was held at Bielefeld on the topic "Children and the Good Life: New Challenges for Research on Children." The focus was on how we can define and measure a "good life" for children growing up in the modern world. This tied in with discussions on how convincing universalistic theories are, what research on children can contribute, and how children themselves can be integrated into the research process and debates on the "good life." Discourses and the production of knowledge on the "good life" or "well-being" require a guiding idea or a theoretical frame. This frame can come from the feminist ethic of care or from the Human and Children's Rights Convention, from the idea of welfare, or from the Capability Approach.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Children and the Good Life: Theoretical Challenges	p. 7
Modern Children and Their Well-Being: Dismantling an Ideal	p. 13
Children, the Feminist Ethic of Care and Childhood Studies: Is This the Way to the Good Life?	p. 29
Childhood Welfare and the Rights of Children	p. 41
Children and Their Needs	p. 53
The Capability Approach and Research on Children	p. 69
The Capability Approach and Research on Children: Capability Approach and Children's Issues	p. 75
Subjective Well-Being and Capabilities: Views on the Well-Being of Young Persons	p. 91
Language Education-For the "Good Life"?	p. 103
Children's Perspectives: Methodological Critiques and Empirical Studies	p. 115
Biographical Research in Childhood Studies: Exploring Children's Voices from a Pedagogical Perspective	p. 119
Researching Identities, Difference, Subjectivities and Social Relations in Childhood Within Multi-ethnic Infant and Primary School Settings	p. 131
Childhood Studies in Turkey	p. 141
Structural Conditions and Children in Different National Contexts	p. 159
Child Poverty-Social and Economic Policy for Children	p. 163
Well-Being of Children in Turkey	p. 177
Roma Children and Social Exclusion in Lithuania: Sociological Approach to Human Development	p. 189
Index	p. 203
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