Essays about: "childhoods"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word childhoods.

  1. 1. A labour-free childhood? African perspectives on international child rights policies.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, kommunikation och lärande

    Author : Dorotea Reuterswärd; [2024-01-16]
    Keywords : childhood; child labour; child rights; policy; literature review; ideal type; postcolonialism; Africa;

    Abstract : This paper notes that one prominent trait of Western thinking about children is that childhood should be protected and care-free. For example, if children are engaged in work, their childhood is seen as 'lost'. READ MORE

  3. 2. A labour-free childhood? African perspectives on international child rights policies.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, kommunikation och lärande

    Author : Dorotea Reuterswärd; [2023-11-22]
    Keywords : childhood; child labour; child rights; policy; literature review; ideal type; postcolonialism; Africa;

    Abstract : This paper notes that one prominent trait of Western thinking about children is that childhood should be protected and care-free. For example, if children are engaged in work, their childhood is seen as 'lost'. READ MORE

  4. 3. “If there is no nature, there is no happiness” : Primary schoolchildren’s perspectives of nature and environmental issues.

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

    Author : Anna Grabowski; [2019]
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    Abstract : Children’s relationship to nature has had a place within research on society and culture and continues to garner attention. With a growing environmental crisis, understanding humans’ relationships to nature is imperative. READ MORE

  5. 4. Stolen Childhoods: Remembering the Former Child Soldiers Abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Josephine Mittag; [2018]
    Keywords : human rights; child soldiers; peace; recognition; reparations; transitional justice; Lord s Resistance Army; Uganda; State responsibility;

    Abstract : The prohibition on the use of child soldiers is widely recognized. Still, it is estimated that 60,000 children were abducted and forced to take part in the internal armed conflict between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda. READ MORE

  6. 5. RESTORING SHATTERED CHILDHOODS, A DEBT TO HUMANITY : Learning from the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Process for Children in Sierra Leone

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Mariana Santoyo Bahamón; [2014]
    Keywords : Sierra Leone; Disarmament; Demobilisation; Reintegration; Child Soldiers;

    Abstract : An attempt to bring together a set of conceptual and theoretical issues related to the programming of the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Process for child soldiers in Sierra Leone. By questioning if the programmes have considered cultural and contextual specificities, this is a qualitative case study based in the text analysis of secondary data from a number of different researchers and practitioners from the field. READ MORE