Description
Book SynopsisEducators and community-based professionals are often required to work with children and families from a range of diverse backgrounds. The second edition of this popular book goes beyond simplistic definitions of diversity, encouraging a much broader understanding and helping childhood educators and community-based professionals develop a critical disposition towards assumptions about children and childhood in relation to diversity, difference and social justice.
As well as drawing on research, the book gives an overview of relevant contemporary social theories, including poststructuralism, cultural studies, critical theory, postcolonialism, critical âraceâ theory, feminist perspectives and queer theory. It interrogates practice and explores opportunities and strategies for creating a more equitable environment, whilst covering key issues impacting on childrenâs lives, including: globalization, neoliberalism, new racisms, immigration, Indigeneity, refugees, homophobia, hetero
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Changing paradigms in childhood and using critical social theories to understand childhoods
Chapter 2: Constructions of childhood
Chapter 3: The changing nature of families in the 21st Century
Chapter 4: Social Class and Inequalities: deconstructing poverty and disadvantage
Chapter 5: Critical multiculturalism: policy and practice
Chapter 6: Gender and post-feminism?
Chapter 7: Sexuality: Children's sexual citizenship
Chapter 8: Indigeneity
Chapter 9: Refugees and Asylum seekers
Chapter 10: Languages, identities and bilingualism in childhood
Chapter 11: Revisiting the challenges of diversity and difference for childhoods
