We live in a globalized world in which children live in extreme poverty, experience stunted growth, are denied access to education, live as refugees, are subjected to violence, are employed as unskilled workers and even face threats from terror organizations. Drawing attention to these critical challenges, this edited collection develops holistic solutions towards achieving improved conditions and rights of children globally.
Taking an interdisciplinary perspective spanning disciplines such as psychology, geography, history, philosophy, theology, education, social law and literature, Being a Child in a Global World includes over twenty chapters which delve into the concept and place of the child in the social order, as well as economic, humanitarian, and political dimensions.
Featuring authorship from around the world, and combining the perspectives and knowledge of different disciplines, this edited collection is a truly ground-breaking and comprehensive multidisciplinary study. Providing answers to an urgent challenge of our time, the collection is a must-read for scholars who are interested in the global condition of childhood.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Being a Young Child in the Global World
Chapter 1. A Child’s State of Being in a Global World; Kamuran Elbeyoğlu
Chapter 2. Our Future Is On Fire: A Global Perspective of Children’s Challenges; Huriye Toker
Chapter 3. The Effect of Attitudes by Generation X,Y,Z, Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta on Children; Ahmet Fidan
Chapter 4. Historical Development of Childhood; H. Hilal Şahin
Part II: Child Labour in A Global World
Chapter 5. Child Labour in the Street Economy; Osman Sirkeci
Chapter 6. Children: the Cheap Labour in Agriculture and Industry; Çağla Yiğitbaş and Özge Üstün
Chapter 7. Child Labour Exploitation; Kurtuluş Yılmaz Genç
Part III: Children under the Threat of War and Terror
Chapter 8. Children Subjected to Genocide; Tolga Çıkrıkçı
Chapter 9. A Child in Afghanistan: The Afghani Child Experience; Abbas Karaağaçlı and Mary Joan Camilleri
Chapter 10. Syria internal War as a Case Study within the Context of Catastrophe of Men’s War on Children: A Sui Generis Case Study of Turkey’s Policy Towards Syrian Children; Sina Kısacık, Bahriye Eseler, and Mary Joan Camilleri
Part IV: Children’s Rights and Globalisation
Chapter 11. The Concept and Development of Children’s Rights; Abdullah Dirikoç
Chapter 12. Children’s Rights To Housing and Food; Aliye Bulut
Chapter 13. Poverty and City Safety; Esmeray Alacadağlı
Chapter 14. Children without Parental Care; Nurullah Çalış
Chapter 15. Environmental Movement and Its Affect on a Childs’ Health; Azize Serap Tunçer and Sinan Bulut
Chapter 16. Children and Education: Statistics Are Just Numbers, But Children Not; Işıl Kellevezir
Chapter 17. Fighting Childhood Poverty through Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean; Kubilayhan Erman
Chapter 18. Children's Ombudsman Applications; Yasemin Mamur Işıkçı and Betül Ateş
Chapter 19. Intercultural Communication and the Importance of Children in the Development of Cultural Diplomacy: The Case of Turkey; Erdem Eren
Part V: Digital Technologies, Arts and Children
Chapter 20. Digital Technologies and Children; Ebru Turan Güntepe and Mustafa Serkan Abdüsselam
Chapter 21. Digital Art in Children’s Education; Merve Yıldırım
Chapter 22. The Children in Western World Literature; Müzeyyen Altunbay
Part VI: A Case Study with Teaching Notes
Chapter 23. PHOOL- Sustainability of the Ganges through Empowering Women: A Brighter Future for the next generations of Indian Children; Deepika Upadhyay, Pallavi Tyagi , Simon Grima, and Balamurugan Balusamy
