Childhoods at the Intersection of the Local and the Global

HIND KHALED KHALIFA Associate Professor of the Sociology of Childhood in the Department of Social Studies at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaSIOBHAN LAIRD Lecturer at Nottingham University, UKKATIE MONAGHAN University of Sheffield, UKHELEN PENN Professor of Early Childhood and co-director of the International Centre for the Study of the Mixed Economy of Childcare in the Cass School of Education and Communities at the University of East London, UKSUSAN SHEPLER Assistant Professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution in the School of International Service at American University, USAMIRIAM TAG Researcher at Bielefeld University, GermanyKAREN WELLS Senior Lecturer in International Childhood Studies and International Development at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

• Introduction; A.Twum-Danso Imoh  & R.Ame The Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Product and Facilitator of a Global Childhood; A.Twum-Danso Imoh Universalizing Early Childhood: History, Forms, and Logics; M.Tag Early Child Development Policy: The Colonization of the World's Childrearing Practices?; K.Monaghan The Rhetoric and Realities of Early Childhood Programmes Promoted by the World Bank; H.Penn The Construction of the Child in Ghanaian Welfare Policy; S.Laird 'This is how we do it here'. The Persistence of the Physical Punishment of Children in Ghana in the Face of Globalizing Ideals; A.Twum-Danso Imoh Making Gender and Generation: Between the Local and the Global in Africa; K.Wells Caught up in Between Change and Continuity: Challenging Contemporary Childhood in Saudi Arabia; H.Khalifa The Rites of the Child: Global discourses of Youth and Reintegrating Child soldiers in Sierra Leone; S.Shepler Conclusion; R.Ame  & A.Twum-Danso Imoh

"This book provides an interesting mix of theory, history and case studies all of which concern the ways that childhoods are changing in response to globalisation. Its international focus and emphasis on the full age range of childhood will make it invaluable for those in Development Studies, Early Years, as well as those with a more general interest in Childhood Studies." - Children & Society