Children's lives and schooling across societies

In recent decades, sociological research has investigated the nature of the school institution and its uneven effects on the progress of families, societies, and the global community. Yet, relatively little comparative research on schooling has dealt in a serious way with links between schooling and...

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Other Authors Hannum, Emily, Fuller, Bruce
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2006.
SeriesResearch in sociology of education ; v. 15.
Subjects
Educational sociology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849504003
1849504008
0762312912
ISSN1479-3539 ;
DOI10.1016/S1479-3539(2006)15
Physical Description1 online resource (vii, 280 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • Overview: children's lives and schooling across societies / Emily Hannum and Bruce Fuller
  • Community matters in China / Jennifer H. Adams
  • Social capital formation through Chinese school communities / Heidi Ross and Jing Lin
  • Girls' schooling and marriage in rural Bangladesh / Simeen Mahmud and Sajeda Amin
  • Gendered homes and classrooms in rural Nepal / Jennifer Rothchild
  • Families, schools, and reading in Asia and Latin America / Hyunjoon Park and Gary D. Sandefur
  • The contexts of children's lives in Asia: families, schools and communities : Commentary on Adams, Ross and Lin, Mahmud and Amin, Rothchild, and Park and Sandefur / Emily Hannum
  • Children's work and school attendance in Ghana / Niels-Hugo Blunch
  • Demand for schooling among orphans in Zimbabwe / Craig Gundersen, Thomas Kelly and Kyle Jemison
  • Children's work, health, and school demand: commentary on Blunch and Gundersen et al. papers / Bruce Fuller
  • Alienation from learning - poor Ethiopian children in Israel / Gad Yair and Orit Gazit
  • Home environs and alienation from schooling: commentary on Yair and Gazit / Daniel Bekele.

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