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
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1. A Childs State of Being in a Global World; Kamuran Elbeyolu
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2. Our Future Is On Fire: A Global Perspective of Childrens
Challenges; Huriye Toker
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3. The Effect of Attitudes by Generation X,Y,Z, Alpha, Beta, Gamma
and Delta on Children; Ahmet Fidan
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4. Historical Development of Childhood; H. Hilal ahin
Part II: Child Labour in A Global World
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5. Child Labour in the Street Economy; Osman Sirkeci
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6. Children: the Cheap Labour in Agriculture and Industry; Ēala
Yiitba and Özge Üstün
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7. Child Labour Exploitation; Kurtulu Ylmaz Genē
Part III: Children under the Threat of War and Terror
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8. Children Subjected to Genocide; Tolga Ēkrkē
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9. A Child in Afghanistan: The Afghani Child Experience; Abbas
Karaaaēl and Mary Joan Camilleri
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10. Syria internal War as a Case Study within the Context of
Catastrophe of Mens War on Children: A Sui Generis Case Study of Turkeys
Policy Towards Syrian Children; Sina Ksack, Bahriye Eseler, and Mary Joan
Camilleri
Part IV: Childrens Rights and Globalisation
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11. The Concept and Development of Childrens Rights; Abdullah
Dirikoē
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12. Childrens Rights To Housing and Food; Aliye Bulut
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13. Poverty and City Safety; Esmeray Alacadal
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14. Children without Parental Care; Nurullah Ēal
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15. Environmental Movement and Its Affect on a Childs Health; Azize
Serap Tunēer and Sinan Bulut
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16. Children and Education: Statistics Are Just Numbers, But Children
Not; Il Kellevezir
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17. Fighting Childhood Poverty through Conditional Cash Transfer
Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean; Kubilayhan Erman
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18. Children's Ombudsman Applications; Yasemin Mamur Ikē and Betül
Ate
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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
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20. Digital Technologies and Children; Ebru Turan Güntepe and Mustafa
Serkan Abdüsselam
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21. Digital Art in Childrens Education; Merve Yldrm
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22. The Children in Western World Literature; Müzeyyen Altunbay
Part VI: A Case Study with Teaching Notes
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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 Elbeyolu is a Faculty Member of the Psychology Department at Girne American University, Cyprus.
Osman Sirkeci works at zmir Metropolitan Municipality, Turkey, where he is the founder of the Street Economy Department.
Yasemin Mamur Ikc 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.