African childhoods: education, development, peacebuilding, and the youngest continent

With 70 per cent of its people under the age of 30, Africa is the world's youngest continent. African youngsters have been largely characterized as either vulnerable victims of the frequent humanitarian crises that plague their homelands, or as violent militarized youth and 'troubled' gang members. Young people's contributions to processes of educational provision, peace building and participatory human development in Africa are often ignored. While acknowledgingthe profound challenges associated with growing up in an environment of uncertainty and deprivation, African Childhoods sheds light on African children's often constructive engagement with a variety of societal conditions, adverse orotherwise, and their ability to positively influence their own lives and those of others. INDICE: PART I: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CHILD SURVIVAL IN AFRICA: AGENCY,LABOR AND SUBSISTENCE.African Childhoods: Education, Development, and Peacebuilding in the Youngest Continent; M.O.Ensor.Are the Barrels Empty? Are the Children any Safer? Child Domestic Labor and Servitude in Ghana; C.N.Derby.Matches but No Fire: Street Children and the State in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; C.M.Wagner, E.D.Lyimo. &. S.Lwendo.Youth Agency and Survival Strategies in Sierra Leone's Post-war Informal Economy; J.I.Lahai.Turkana Children's Contributions to Subsistence and Household Ecology in Kenya; T.Y.Watkins.PART II: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF AFRICAN CHILDREN: KINSHIP, HARDSHIP, AND COMMUNITY. Children who Take Care of other Children in the Suburbs of Maputo, Mozambique; E.Colonna. Seen but not Heard: African Orphanhood as Lived Experience; K.E.Cheney.Militarization, Generational Conflict, and the Eritrean Refugee Crisis; T.M.R.Hepner.PART III: THE HUMAN CAPITAL OF AFRICAN CHILDREN: YOUTH VOICES AND SCHOOLING IN THE YOUNGEST CONTINENT.Representing Youth: School Dramas and Youth Authority in Ghana; C.Coe.Conceptualizing the Child: An Analysis of Early Childhood Care and Education Policy in Tanzania; B.C.Wilinski.Striving for Knowledge and Dignity:Young Qur'anic Students in Kano, Nigeria; H.Hoechner.PART IV:AFRICAN CHILDREN AS POLITICAL ACTORS: CHILD-INCLUSIVE VIEWS ON PEACEBUILDING AND SOCIAL CHANGE.Dinka Youth and the Culture of Formal Schooling in Post-conflict South Sudan; A.I.Epstein.Educating Postconflict Societies: Lessons from Rwanda and Liberia; F.E.Godwyll. &. S.Magadla.Our Voice: Public Health and Youths' Communication for Social Change in SÉnÉgal; L.J.Felt. &. A.Rideau.Painting a Picture of Expressive Arts Therapy for War-Affected Youth in Northern Uganda; J.R.Hanebrink. &. A.J.Smith.The Next Generation of African Children; M.O.Ensor.

• ISBN: 978-1-1370-2469-5
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 27/09/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido