Being a Child in a Global World
Childhood in an Environment of Violence, Terror, Migration and Rapid Change
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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.
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
Betül Karagöz Yerdelen is an Academic Fellow in the Department of Technology Education, Giresun University, Turkey.
Kamuran Elbeyoğlu is a Faculty Member of the Psychology Department at Girne American University, Cyprus.
Osman Sirkeci works at İzmir Metropolitan Municipality, Turkey, where he is the founder of the Street Economy Department.
Yasemin Mamur Işıkcı is Head of the Department of Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Giresun University, Turkey.
Simon Grima is the Head of the Department of Insurance and the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy at the University of Malta, and a Professor in Finance at the University of Latvia, Riga.
Rebecca E. Dalli Gonzi is Senior Lecturer in Construction and Property Management in the Faculty for the Built Environment, University of Malta.