, "The 'Poor Child': The cultural politics of education, development and childhood "
English | ISBN: 0367174170 | 2019 | 210 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 0367174170 | 2019 | 210 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Why are development discourses of the ‘poor child’ in need of radical revision?
What are the theoretical and methodological challenges and possibilities for ethical understandings of childhoods and poverty?
The ‘poor child’ at the centre of development activity is often measured against and reformed towards an idealised and globalised child subject. This book examines why such normative discourses of childhood are in need of radical revision and explores how development research and practice can work to ‘unsettle’ the global child. It engages the cultural politics of childhood – a politics of equality, identity and representation – as a methodological and theoretical orientation to rethink the relationships between education, development, and poverty in children’s lives.
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