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

Contributor(s): Stoecklin, Daniel, 1963- [editor] | Bonvin, Jean [editor].
Series: Children's well-being: indicators and research series volume 8.Publisher: Dordrecht, Netherlands : Springer Verlag, 2014Description: xii, 293 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9402407154; 9789402407150:; 9789402407150.Subject(s): Children's rights | Capabilities approach (Social sciences)DDC classification: 323.352 STO Summary: 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.
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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.

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