Newly Emerging Needs of Children : An Exploration

by Oudenhoven, Nico Van; Wazir, Rekha

• ISBN13: 9789044119138
• ISBN10: 9044119133
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-30
• Publisher: Coronet Books Inc

Summary

This book has been written in the form of an exploratory essay. Its main aim is to create a greater familiarity with the phenomenon of 'newly emerging needs' of children and lay the basis for future research and analysis of this theme.

Table of Contents

A slow awakening	p. 17
What, then, are newly emerging needs?	p. 29
A methodological digression	p. 39
Case studies	p. 45
India	p. 47
Kenya	p. 59
The Netherlands	p. 68
Nicaragua	p. 77
New domains, new needs	p. 87
Beyond the main causes	p. 87
The changing concept of childhood	p. 89
Implementing the convention on the rights of the child	p. 89
The uneven rise of 'girl power'	p. 94
Bypassing traditional mediators	p. 100
Fusion of reality, virtuality and the impossible	p. 104
Accessing new terrains	p. 108
Exposure to global lifestyles	p. 112
Children, childhood studies and newly emerging needs	p. 121
Newly emerging approaches to newly emerging needs of children	p. 145
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