The United Nations Convention on the rights of the child sets a global standard of childhood only a minority of nations can attain.To what extent is United Nations Convention on the rights of the child culturally biased?

Clear Structure with 3 sections: Introduction, main body and conclusion.

Reading list:

Alderson, P (2008) Young Children’s Rights: Exploring Beliefs, Principles and Practice London, Second edition, Jessica Kingsley

Franklin, B. (Ed) (2002) The New Handbook of Children’s Rights, London: Routledge.

James, A., Jenks, C. & Prout, A. (1998) Theorising Childhood, Cambridge: Polity.

Lee, Nick (2001) Childhood and Society: Growing up in an age of uncertainty. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Penn, H. (2005) Unequal Childhoods: Young Children’s Lives in Poor Countries. London: Routledge.

Prout, A. and James, A. (1997) Eds. Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Study of Childhood, London: Routledge

Prout, A. (2005) The Future of Childhood: towards the interdisciplinary study of children, London: FalmerRoutledge e-book.

Wyness, M. (2012) Childhood and Society, second edition, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

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Stephens, S. 1995 Stephens, S. (1995) Introduction children and the politics of culture in “Late Capitalism”. In:Stephens, S. Children and the politics of culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Ch.Introduction, pp.3-48

Wyness, M. 2006 Wyness, M. (2006) Children, their rights and politics. In: Childhood and society: an introduction to the sociology of childhood. 1st ed., New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Ch.10, pp.206-229

Wyness, M. 2011 Wyness, M (2011) Children’s work and labour: The International context. In:Wyness, M Childhood and society : an introduction to the sociology of childhood. 2nd ed., New York/London: Palgrave Macmillan, Ch.11, pp.253-274

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