Childhood Cultures in Transformation : 30 Years of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child in Action towards Sustainability / edited by Elin Eriksen degaard, Jorunn Spord Borgen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Gunn Helene Engelsrud -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introducing Childhood Cultures in Transformation -- Elin Eriksen degaard and Jorunn Spord Borgen -- 2 In the Best Interests of the Child: >From the Century of the Child to the Century of Sustainability -- Liv Torunn Grindheim, Jorunn Spord Borgen and Elin Eriksen degaard -- 3 On Equal Terms? On Implementing Infants Cultural Rights -- Pauline von Bonsdorff -- 4 Children with Severe, Multiple Disabilities: Interplaying Beings, Communicative Becomings -- Kristin Vindhol Evensen -- 5 Spaces for Transitions in Intergenerational Childhood Experiences -- Czarecah Oropilla -- 6 Managing Risk and Balancing Minds: Transforming the Next Generation through Frustration Education -- Ida Marie Lys -- 7 Childrens Food Choices during Kindergarten Meals -- Hege Wergedahl, Eldbjrg Fossgard, Eli Kristin Aadland and Asle Holthe -- 8 Children, Food and Digital Media: Questions, Challenges and Methodologies -- Karen Klitgaard Povlsen, Stinne Gunder Strm Krogager, Jonatan Leer and Susanne Hjlund -- 9 Children at Risk in Public Health Policy: What Is at Risk? -- Jorunn Spord Borgen, Gro Rugseth and Wenche S. Bjorbkmo -- 10 Childish beyond Age: Reconceptualising the Aesthetics of Resistance -- Susanne C. Ylnen -- 11 Approaching Agency in Intra-Activities -- Liv Torunn Grindheim -- 12 Studying Families and Teachers Multilingual Practices and Ideologies in Kindergartens: A Nexus Analytic Approach -- Anja Maria Pesch -- 13 Studies of Child Perspectives in Methodology and Practice with Osallisuus as a Finnish Approach to Childrens Reciprocal Cultural Participation -- Liisa Karlsson -- 14 Global Paradoxes and Provocations in Education: Exploring Sustainable Futures for Children and Youth -- Jorunn Spord Borgen and Elin Eriksen degaard -- Index.

This book investigates and uncover paradoxes and ambivalences that are actualised when seeking to make the right choices in the best interests of the child. The 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child established a milestone for the 20th century. Many of these ideas still stand, but time calls for new reflections, empirical descriptions and knowledge as provided in this book. Special attention is directed to the conceptualisation of children and childhood cultures, the missing voices of infants and fragile children, as well as transformations during times of globalisation and change. All chapters contribute to understand and discuss aspects of societal demands and cultural conditions for modern-day children age 018, accompanied by pointers to their future..

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