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Title:
'Suffer the little children' : national and international dimensions of child poverty and public policy / edited by Carol Camp Yeakey, Jeanita W. Richardson, Judith Brooks Buck.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
Elsevier JAI,
Copyright Date:
2006
Description:
xxi, 500 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Poor children--Social conditions.
Poverty--International cooperation.
Poor children--Government policy
Poverty--Government policy.
Children's rights.
Enfants pauvres--Conditions sociales.
Pauvreté--Coopération internationale.
Enfants pauvres--Politique gouvernementale.
Pauvreté--Politique gouvernementale.
Enfants--Droits.
Other Authors:
Yeakey, Carol Camp.
Richardson, Jeanita W., 1957-
Brooks-Buck, Judith.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
America's shame : children living in the shadows of America's prosperity / Carol Camp Yeakey, Jeanita W. Richardson and Judith Brooks Buck -- Talking poverty : urban Scots and social deprivation / David Matheson -- Fenced into cycles of deprivation : orphans, their female carers and education in Malawi / Rob McBride -- Roma childhood in eastern Europe / Tamás Kozma, Gabriella Pusztai and Katalin Torkos -- Coming to America : dashed hopes and uncertain futures / Elavie Ndura -- The loss of identity and the underutilization of black children's educational potential : rethinking assimilation globally / Kassie Freeman -- Children and youth in poverty in Trinidad and Tobago : a lack of commitment in the midst of plenty / Frank C. Worrell -- The dilemma of child soldiering in sub-Saharan Africa / Kingsley Banya and Juliet Elu -- Violence, democracy and education : an analytic framework -- Jamil Salmi -- The reach and possibilities of educational reform for the rural poor in Mexico / Maria Teresa Tatto -- Poverty and education : Brazil's search for viable solutions? / Francis Musa Boakari -- Small hands : global dimensions of child labor and exploitation / Carol Camp Yeakey and Judith Brooks Buck -- Child protection and survival in southern Africa : focus on child welfare policy in Namibia / Rodney K. Hopson -- The health and cognitive consequences of international child poverty / Jeanita W. Richardson -- Juvenile institutionalization practices in India : a study of two institutions in Madras / Sesha Kethineni and Tricia Klosky -- Child poverty in Sierra Leone : vignettes from the Leonenet Street Children's Project / Samuel Hinton -- Stolen childhood : cultural constructions of "unmarried" pregnancy in Bangladesh / Margot Wilson -- The World Bank, NGOs and the state of development in sub-Saharan Africa : implications for alleviating poverty and advancing societal reform / Kingsley Banya -- Defeating the trends : in search of a better future / Ximena de la Barra.
Series:
Advances in education in diverse communities : research, policy and praxis ; v. 4
ISBN:
9780762308316 (hbk.)
0762308311 (hbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)56646658
Locations:
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

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