This book is about schools and protection of children, and proposes ways to ensure the minimum standards of safety in schools. It also illustrates the effects of such contexts: • non-enrollment of children or early dropout from school;• various forms of abuse and bullying at home and school;
Chapter 1: The Century of the Child.- Chapter 2: Aims of education.- Chapter 3: Discourses of childhood.- Discourse as a fixation of meaning.- Chapter 4: Identification and impact of abuse.- Chapter 5: Child labor.- Chapter 6: Child marriage.- Chapter 7: Contexts of adversity.- Chapter 8: “Engineering” responses.- Chapter 9: Hidden and planned curricula.- Chapter 10: Teaching in adversity.- Conclusion: Reconstructing education as protection.- Teacher training and curriculum reform.- Complexity, education, and development.- Final argument and recommendations.- Index.
