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Children's rights and the capability approach : challenges and prospects /

Children's rights and the capability approach : challenges and prospects / - Dordrecht, Netherlands : Springer Verlag, 2014. - xii, 293 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. - Children's well-being: indicators and research series volume 8 . - Children's well-being: indicators and research series .

Includes index.

This volume addresses the conditions allowing the transformation of specific children's rights into capabilities in settings as different as children's parliaments, organised leisure activities, contexts of vulnerability, children in care. It addresses theoretical questions linked to children's agency and reflexivity, education, the life cycle perspective, child participation, evolving capabilities and citizenship. The volume highlights important issues that have to be taken into account for the implementation of human rights and the development of peoples' capabilities.

9402407154 9789402407150: £90.00 9789402407150


Children's rights
Capabilities approach (Social sciences)

323.352 STO