Naftali Children, Rights and Modernity in China

Raising Self-Governing Citizens
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-34659-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 173 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Studies in Childhood and Youth

This book is an original, ethnographic study of the emergence of a new type of thinking about children and their rights in urban China. It brings together evidence from a variety of Chinese government, academic, pedagogic and media publications, and from interviews and participant observations conducted in schools and homes in Shanghai, China.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Naftali, O.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Recasting Children as Autonomous Persons: Children as Future Citizens and Workers 2. Children's Right to Self-Ownership: Space, Privacy and Punishment 3. Constituting Rights as Needs: Psychology and the Rise of Middle Class Childhood 4. The Filial Child Revisited: Tradition Holds its Ground in Modern Shanghai Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Orna Naftali is Lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.