Table of Contents

1. Global Models of Childhood and Youth 2. 'Development', Globalisation and Poverty as Contexts for Growing Up 3. Changing Cultural Contexts 4. Health: Ensuring the Survival of Infants and Adolescents? 5. Education 6. Work: Exploiting Children, Empowering Youth? 7. Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances 8. Rights, Participation and Power

About the Author

Nicola Ansell is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at Brunel University.

Reviews

'An excellent and welcome overview of the diversity of children and young people's experiences in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Children, Youth and Development is a comprehensive, accessible and timely text.' -- Samantha Punch, University of Stirling, UK 'Children, Youth and Development provides a groundbreaking look at the complex and diverse ways in which children and young people are affected by and play a role in global economic, social and political processes.' -- Sarah J. Halvorson, University of Montana, USA 'Children, Youth and Development provides a compendium of extremely useful and well evidenced information to challenge assumptions, and a thorough picture of how it is to be a child/young person today in the world.' -- Jo Trelfa, College of St. Mark and St. John, Plymouth, UK