'Suffer the little children' : national and international dimensions of child poverty and public policy /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier JAI,
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Advances in education in diverse communities : research, policy and praxis,
v. 4 |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=166381 |
Table of 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.